Janice Turner in the Times:
At last Saturday’s demonstration against the Supreme Court ruling, a burly, gravel-voiced, 50-something man in a baby-doll nightie was interviewed about lavatories. “If I walked into a men’s toilets like this, I’m just asking for trouble,” he said. “It only takes one obnoxious idiot.”
Maybe he shouldn't dress up in his fetish gear.
How is he treated in the ladies? “A woman wouldn’t do it. End of.” He’d just used female loos at Waterloo station and “none of the women batted an eyelid when I walked in. I’ve got no problem with going in the ladies. They’ve got no problem. So I’m not going to stop.”
Really, it’s a mystery why women in an enclosed space would avoid the eye of a broad-shouldered, tough-looking geezer in fetish gear. It’s truly a triumph of entitlement and narcissism to read such silence as approval, but if women are mere non-player characters in your life’s exciting video game, why would you clock their watchfulness, unease or fear?
It's not the violence these men are worried about in the men's toilets: it's the ridicule. They wouldn't be attacked: if anything they'd be jeered.
It's the same old story. Men are afraid of being laughed at; women are afraid of being killed.
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