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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Apr 13, 2016, Randwill wrote: Isn't this "the few" trying to dictate to the majority? If it is, it is not going to work and will backfire in their faces when people stop going to their concerts. However these two individuals do not care they are past their prime. Their glory days are over. They made their money.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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JoeJoe Inner circle Myrtle Beach 1915 Posts |
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On Apr 13, 2016, Randwill wrote: I don't think it is just to pressure for a repeal, but also a warning to other states ... I know South Carolina has a transgendered-bathroom-ban bill going through the process and the protests are slowing that process down. and our governor has already distanced herself from it: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-idUSKCN0XA2F2 In fact ... some of this came up out of South Carolina after a transgendered boy was suspended for using the boy's bathroom and my Facebook page has been lit up with this issue for a couple of months now (Socastee is part of the Grand Strand (Myrtle Beach)): http://raycomgroup.worldnow.com/story/31......h-school -JoeJoe
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JoeJoe Inner circle Myrtle Beach 1915 Posts |
In fact ... the above news story I cited can help put focus on the "actual" problem and not the perceived problem ya'all keep running your mouths (fingers) about:
a student dressed up like a boy using the girl's bathroom is going to cause problems. It would be best for everyone to just let that student use the boy's bathroom, all the other students already think it is a boy so to see them enter the girl's bathroom would be a strange sight to see. -JoeJoe
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
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On Apr 14, 2016, JoeJoe wrote: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20......oms.html "Scott Turner Schofield, a transgender man who grew up in Charlotte and went on to play a major role on The Bold and the Beautiful, told The Daily Beast that before he even transitioned, he was physically assaulted for using the women’s restroom at a North Carolina movie theater based on his masculine gender presentation. 'I got out [of the bathroom] and there was a woman in her early fifties who freaked out and began hitting me with her purse,' he said. 'And that sounds kind of funny except that it was a really big purse with metal edges and it cut me.' Schofield, then a teenager, had to lift up his shirt in public to expose his bra in order to stop the attack. It’s exactly the sort of incident that could happen with increasing frequency in the wake of North Carolina’s law, which has no written mechanism for enforcement. In essence, Schofield says, it will deputize every transphobic resident as a member of the 'bathroom police.'" "But this legislative attack is not about protecting women and girls from predatory men. It’s about lawmakers exerting so much energy to keep a certain group of women out of women’s bathrooms that they are also explicitly ordering a certain group of men into women’s bathrooms. Whether or not those men obey the law is another story. Schofield says that he, like many transgender men, will continue using men’s restrooms when in North Carolina." "One thing is clear: If North Carolina lawmakers truly want to keep men out of women’s restrooms, they have failed spectacularly." Perhaps you thought "she"'d be wearing a dress, like the little sign says. |
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts |
"But this legislative attack is not about protecting women and girls from predatory men. It’s about lawmakers exerting so much energy to keep a certain group of women out of women’s bathrooms that they are also explicitly ordering a certain group of men into women’s bathrooms."
That's funny. I guess I misunderstood the law. I thought it was about keeping a certain group of men out of women's bathrooms. I didn't realize it was about keeping women out of women's bathrooms. In that case, I'm totally against it! |
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
Currently the law would force this "woman" to use the ladies room in NC. Ain't no man gonna have to dress like a woman, pretending to be transgender to get in the ladies room as things stand now.
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
"This means, bluntly speaking, that the new North Carolina law will technically require some testosterone-laden men with ***es to walk through the door with the dress on it because, if they haven’t been able to change their birth certificate in their home state, the Tar Heel State still sees them as women."
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts |
Seriously though, I'm curious. Does everyone who opposes this law believe that anyone should be able to use any bathroom they want? If so, cool, but why have mens and womens bathrooms at all? Maybe this is a civil rights issue and it needs to go to the Supreme Court where they can once and for all make it illegal to put Men and Women designations on any bathroom.
(I'm assuming that we could then progress further and get rid of Men and Women locker rooms in all public facilities, rec centers, swimming pools, school locker rooms, etc. It certainly seems like the logical extension.) |
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
Seriously, though, what's so wrong with a topless woman? Why do the men get to go topless? I can walk down the street here without a top on if I like, 'bout *** time. Can't even type *** at the magic Café.
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
"Brilla said she and her sisters have seen plenty of male cyclists going shirtless on hot summer days. Women should feel free to do the same without attracting attention or being harassed and questioned, she said."
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JoeJoe Inner circle Myrtle Beach 1915 Posts |
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On Apr 14, 2016, magicalaurie wrote: Ironically, men have only been legally allowed to swim topless for the last one hundred years as well ... the same time frame as segregated bathrooms. -JoeJoe
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Randwill Inner circle 1914 Posts |
Cirque du Soleil has cancelled shows in Raleigh, Greensboro and Charlotte, NC to oppose the state’s anti-LGBT laws.
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Apr 15, 2016, Randwill wrote: While hundreds of other performers and performances have not cancelled.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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lunatik Inner circle 3222 Posts |
It'll die down, they just need to wait it out.
"Don't let your Dreams become Fantasies"
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Yes how many millions of dollars and jobs can it possibly cost? Just wait it out.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On Apr 15, 2016, acesover wrote: Sure, only just the biggest ones. I suppose the small locally-based performers don't really have much of a choice except to continue as is. Wait it out, but I would bet on the law being changed sooner rather than later. Beyonce is one of the next major performers slated to perform in N.C. I'm curious to see whether or not she cancels.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts |
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On Apr 15, 2016, balducci wrote: One always has a choice. However some people do not have the strength of their belief to follow through on it. When you are rich and have privileges it is easy to say no. But that does not make them right. It just lets them flaunt their wealth and others think they are doing something wonderful. Wake up. They are stroking their own ego and you believe they have a cause. They don't even know you exist much less care what you believe. I wonder if they would be so strongly committed if they were not already wealthy. Do I even have to ask?
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
So you are saying people of means do not have core beliefs? At what point do you lose them? How much money do you have when you lose them?
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On Apr 16, 2016, Dannydoyle wrote: I remember a quick article in one of the magic magazines about J. K. Rowling's merchandising of Harry Potter. They mentioned that she had refused a magic set designed around the character and the writer mentioned; "Sure, just wait 'til she's down to her last million or so, then we'll see what she says." As far as not playing NC, not everyone is going to make that decision. Each person has to decide for themselves what they're going to do. Not everyone refused to play Sun City either.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Hmmm Sun City looks very dark today.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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