Wait wait wait... So a man barges into a women's bathroom to pull out a woman just to make sure there are no men in there
My mind is stuck in an endless logic loop
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The women in the bathroom complained so there is more than this guard at play
The Liberty Hotel initially defended the guard’s actions in a now-retracted statement, claiming “several guests alerted security about two adults occupying a single bathroom stall” and asserting that a physical altercation occurred. Baker and Victor denied those claims outright.
“If that’s what he thought the issue was once he opened the stall door, obviously there was only one person in there, so it should’ve been case closed,” Victor said. “Let her tie up her shorts and go about her day.”
So the guard actually opened the stall door while she was still using the toilet, found a woman in there, and then stuck around to demand ID to prove she was a woman? What a weird thing to do.
I remember back years and years ago conservatives who regularly used unisex bathrooms losing their shit over gender neutral bathrooms because women were afraid of men entering the bathroom at the same time and forcing open stall doors to take a peek.
And here we are except it was those petrified conservatives doing the forcing and peeking. Guess they were afraid of themselves.
Guess they were afraid of themselves.
That seems to drive a whole lot of right-wing attitudes. "Everyone is like me, therefore everyone is scary and dangerous." But without the self-awareness.
Oh yes, you're right. What's at play is plain anti trans discrimination pushed by a government wanting to distract the populace from looking while they rob the state blind
Where does the article say that?
“ The Liberty Hotel initially defended the guard’s actions in a now-retracted statement, claiming “several guests alerted security about two adults occupying a single bathroom stall” and asserting that a physical altercation occurred. Baker and Victor denied those claims outright.”
Yea, they complained about multiple people in a stall which is typically legitimately weird behavior and then Paul Blart, mall TERF took it on himself to be a bigot for reasons completely unrelated to customer complaints.
Are ya feeling safer, fellow women?
I hope she sues them. It’s the only way these shitty companies will learn.
I wish she maced him.
This is bad. But what really struck me was that a hotel had a guard? Do you have guards EVERYWHERE?
Reminded me of a comment a colleague made during a hotel stay in the US, "they got six people greeting me as I enter the lobby but no one to fix my shower".
In the US? Only if there's money.
Guards are only to protect assets not people. When I used to Metro in the Pentagon you would see four or five armed guards with m4s and body armor protecting the carts of the money for the Metro machines. They could give two shits about anyone else.
I rode some light rail trains in Mexico. The guards were putting money on boxes and I though it was a thought provoking photo. So I took the shot. Apparently they thought so too. They followed me and asked me to removed the photo because it was my first offense. Fuck that I've never been back in 35 years.
I feel like this is a very abridged version of an interesting story.
He wasn't disappeared, sounds bridged enough
Thanks! One day it will be a movie....."the train that couldn't slow down"
Oof, and back then that would mean losing the whole roll of film, right? Screw that.
Yup
Not sure if you're being serious, but yeah we have guards pretty much everywhere in the US, particularly in cities. We also have guards at grocery stores (usually multiple guards, and they're usually cops in uniform hired by the store) and at discount stores and sometimes on buses and trains. I've even seen them at convenience stores and cell phone shops. My apartment building has an armed guard on site with their own police-clone patrol SUV from like 10pm to 6am every night, I've had to call them a couple times and they arrive faster than the cops.
The US is a violent shithole and the guards primarily keep away sketchy troublemakers (except in larger stores where they're useless and only used to deter shoplifting).
Yes serious question. I live in Canada, at most you might see mall security. Just people with a uniform. No weapons. Anywhere else it would be strange to see "guards". It's been a while since I was state side. But if it's become this common the United States has serious problems.
Tucson here: armed and unarmed guards are really common at low-class-linked businesses like thrift stores, Fry’s supermarkets, Walmart, Dollar stores, Walgreens/CVS. God forbid someone steal food or pharmacy items like shavers (shaver cartridges here are crazy expensive if you get name brand). Walgreens/CVS also has a tendency to lock the shelves behind plexiglass so you have to ask for help to buy more expensive items.
In some cases, these kind of stores are targeted specifically. There are shopping centers with higher end restaurants that coexist with super high theft locations literally within walking distance.
TLDR: it’s mostly to abate crimes of poverty
The worst part is they suspended him versus firing his creepy ass.
Why do people care so much? Idgaf who uses which bathroom. Do people have men and women's bathrooms in their own homes?
Let’s just go to all gender bathrooms with highly private stalls like every other civilized country
We already are in my city, it's really nice to see.
Just start denying any male who don't look like a bodybuilder in the mens room pretty sure then stuff would get figured out.
You don't have bathrooms in your room in a hotel?
I realize now that I haven't been in a hotel many time in my life
There are also public restrooms.
Hotels also tend to have banquet rooms, which means they have public restrooms for banquet attendees.
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