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[–]WildApples 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What kills me is how privileged and sheltered they are, and how that is going to be used against less privileged women. They are already saying that women have no good reason to object to mixed bathrooms. If they succeed, they will use the experience as further proof that they are right, not understanding how their elite circumstances protects them. The bathrooms will not be open to the general public; their use will be limited to known people who stand to lose the careers they've invested so much in if they get into any legal trouble. The school will be scandalized if one of its elite law students get assaulted, and there will be security hovering around at all times. And students can always leave to use the bathroom at thr dorm or home.

But I just know they will use their experience to argue that women who do not want to share private spaces with men are behind the times. They won't even think about the women who are in shelters, prisons, or even high schools who do not have the protections they have or the ability to go somewhere else. These are the people who will go to work in politics and give us more bills like the Equality Act or, heaven forbid, who will advance to the courts and interpret laws against women's interests. They will be the ones issuing opinions like the one in the Maya Forstator case that found her continued acknowledgment of sex "not worthy of respect in a democratic society." I weep for the future.