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What the Bathroom Wars are Really All About
Crisis Magazine ^ | May 9, 2016 | JOHN HORVAT II

Posted on 05/09/2016 1:41:15 PM PDT by NYer

Bathroom sign

The so-called bathroom wars have nothing to do with bathrooms but are all about war. The push to allow a person to use the bathroom of his or her choice is merely the latest phase of the sexual revolution. It is part of a relentless war to bring about an irrational equality that now seeks to break down the final public barriers that make the sexes different.

Let’s face it. Once it is held that anyone can use the bathroom that he or she feels comfortable with, the words “men” and “women” on the door are meaningless since anyone can enter. According to the strange logic of the bathroom warriors, either you build equal bathrooms for every “gender” that appears on the scene—and there are some 60 of them out there—or you integrate them all into one (or two) bathrooms, everyone can use indiscriminately. Obviously, the latter is the only economically viable solution.

Thus, this is more than just making people feel comfortable; it is the beginning of the end of sex-segregated bathroom, locker rooms or other private places. It is a true culture shift that turns one’s biological sex from a social and public reality to a mere private opinion, whim or fantasy.

The so-called bathroom wars are not only about sexual predators, as many maintain. There will definitely be those who use the new bathroom rules to open doors to prey upon their victims. However, it is all about taking away the vestiges of modesty, decency and the sense of shame that remain in society. This strong layer of protection for both men and women in their most private moments is removed.

The virtue of modesty is part of a moral framework that serves as a reasonable restraint on the less violent human passions. Modesty governs exterior actions so that they might conform to the demands of decency, propriety and decorousness that come from human nature and social mores. Attire, manner of speech, the relationships between the sexes all enter into this framework to keep society balanced and virtuous. When natural decency and modesty are not respected, the dignity of human nature is easily degraded to brutish levels.

Thus, it is no surprise in today’s hyper-sexualized and violent world that there would be those who call for throwing off all restraints and taboos. They would target modesty since it is that natural and delicate sense of restraint to all acts that give rise to shame. All that safeguards a much-needed chastity must be destroyed.

Thus, contrary to the propaganda, this is not about forcing people to be uncomfortable. There never has been, nor will there be police checking identities or self-identities at every bathroom door. This is all about honoring and preserving those time-tested rules that enable society to function and that help individuals maintain their personal dignity.

Finally, the so-called bathroom wars have nothing to do with reality. It has everything to do with empowering the fantasies of those who wish to escape the restraints of identity and reason.

This new activism involves the empowering of fantasy, which by definition is the power or process of creating unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological whims. In times past, those with fantasies were called down to the reality found in society and nature. Today, society as a whole is being asked to pander to and be complicit with the unnatural fantasies of a few.

Yes, the so-called bathroom war is not about bathrooms and all about war. It is a new phase of the Culture War. Those who thought the war was over with their surrender to same-sex “marriage” will come to see that it is only the beginning.

This new phase is an extension and radicalization of what came before. The difference is that the old phase destroyed external structures—tradition, custom, or community—that hindered self-fulfillment and pleasure. The new phase seeks to destroy those internal structures—reason, identity, and the sense of being—that impede the “right” to instant gratification.

The old phase of the Culture War still worked inside the social structures that it destroyed and thus offered more opportunities for people to resist. The new phase assaults the very core of being and identity. It is more tyrannical and allows for little opposition. Anyone who disagrees is immediately and furiously attacked—individuals, businesses and even whole states. If there is to be a return to order, then society must recognize this new development for what it is. This is no frivolous bathroom war but a Culture War so total that it extends even to the use of the bathroom.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bathroom; communistagenda; culturewars; homosexualagenda; sexuality; transgender; unisex
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To: NYer; zot; SeraphimApprentice; Interesting Times; xzins

Yes, it is just another part of the ‘fundamental transformation of society’ that was promised 7 years ago and is being delivered.


41 posted on 05/09/2016 2:47:53 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: NYer

Take a look at Michelle [Michael] 0bama - THAT’s why Hussein is pushing to allow men in women’s bathrooms.


42 posted on 05/09/2016 2:48:27 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (UNAWARE Millennials voting for the first time were only 2 when the Clinton Crime Family left office.)
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To: carriage_hill

We are definitely living in the twilight zone. I’m so glad NC is fighting back. I hope to almighty God that they stay strong.


43 posted on 05/09/2016 2:50:02 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: NYer

It is all about agitation. Dividing and infuriating.


44 posted on 05/09/2016 2:52:26 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: VRW Conspirator
It is all about agitation.

Yep. It is much less about whether mentally confused men can use the women's room (you rarely hear the other way around) than it is about the ability of social activists to impose their will on a society they hold in contempt. Any issue will do. "The issue is not the issue, the issue is the revolution."

45 posted on 05/09/2016 2:55:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NYer

This is about the strategic demoralization of the USA. Yuri Bezmenov was the highest KGB agent ever to defect from the Soviet Union. The Soviets were masters of psychological warfare. The goal is to destabilize a country to an extent that it feeds on itself.

Bezmenov did a few interviews that can be viewed on YouTube. He explains the demoralization process and the Soviet Plan to destabilize the west. It should be required viewing.


46 posted on 05/09/2016 2:56:36 PM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: NYer

Spot on!


47 posted on 05/09/2016 3:00:28 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: joshua c; Travis McGee
Brave New World, or Alas, Brave New Babylon?
48 posted on 05/09/2016 3:02:49 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SamAdams76

We saw this commonly at restaurants in Kiev. There’s one door to an open area with sinks that can by anyone and separate doors there for individual toilets. Often there’s bathrooms with a toilet / sink and no gender indicated.


49 posted on 05/09/2016 3:11:09 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: NYer
This is one of the steps toward normalizing paedophilia. It throws a massive bone to all child sex predators in the nation. Our clown president and all of the largest companies, even other nations like Britain, have ruthlessly punished any sign of dissent, with economic blackmail and other means. Bathrooms aren't the half of this rot. Get your mind out of the stalls people! The beautiful woman in in the hot shower has universal appeal to the normal male of the species. If a persons morals are compromised, as many's obviously are, they will now have a new way to gain access to this mecca of juvenile male fantasy . What's better, it's sanctioned from on high (fag president likes it) and your cable company does too. Woman's bathrooms, locker rooms and showers will soon be open to all nefarious comers. Third wave feminism having brought open discrimination against men, especially white men, has caused American women to lose many of their best defenders, who went their own way for personal and financial safety. It is a rotten state of affairs. /rant
50 posted on 05/09/2016 3:12:33 PM PDT by Dirt for sale
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To: NYer

Let stores, restaurants, and businesses put up whatever signs they want. Let's see who gets the most business and let the marketplace decide. In the real world, a "real" transgender who passes for whatever won't get harassed for using the restroom that matches the pretend sex of the mentally ill person. In the real world,, this only affects the ones who are clearly male and want to follow little girls into the Target restroom and the ones that are clearly female and want to confront men in the men's room. In short, it's nonsense.

Put up XX, and XY signs, announce that you are not denying the "gender" of those who are confused or mentally ill, just separating the facilities by sex rather than by gender. Even a genetics sign isn't quite right. Restrooms are about pluming and "use the facilities with plumbing that matches your plumbing" is the best practical answer, at least until common sense is restored. However we have more important fights right now that dealing with the morons on which bathroom to use.

51 posted on 05/09/2016 3:15:39 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: NYer
It has everything to do with empowering the fantasies of those who wish to escape the restraints of identity and reason.

No one wants to be a human, to be "normal", and live within the limits of our humanity. Everyone in the modern world wants to be a God among men. The technologies that we have developed enable that delusion, to a degree.

52 posted on 05/09/2016 3:19:42 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Better Call Saul (Alinsky). "Make them live by their own rules")
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To: NYer

I suppose the lyin’ POS didn’t mean it when he vowed &
declared he viewed “marriage” as “between one woman & one
man”?


53 posted on 05/09/2016 3:22:07 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: carriage_hill

Must have been the 57 states that he visited during the presidential campaign plus 1.


54 posted on 05/09/2016 3:28:09 PM PDT by ADSUM
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To: carriage_hill

Sexual deviant or pervert pretty much covers all bases there.


55 posted on 05/09/2016 3:30:54 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: ADSUM
NC GOV lays it out clearly
56 posted on 05/09/2016 3:34:07 PM PDT by alrea
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To: NYer

Typical CRISIS article. Promise to “explain” something, then restate the question thirty times.


57 posted on 05/09/2016 3:34:23 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: NYer

The abortionists and the homosexualists and their enablers may appear to be powerful, but they’re really not. They are fighting God and nature, and so their schemes are inevitably doomed. They will fail. The only real question is how many Americans they will take to destruction with them.


58 posted on 05/09/2016 3:40:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: tuffydoodle

You and me, both. I’d like to see all 50 states - no chance from the lib-dominated ones - join a class action suit, and win it handily.


59 posted on 05/09/2016 3:41:20 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ADSUM

Yeah, I remember that “57 states” and his “muzzie faith” statements. No slip of the tongue there.


60 posted on 05/09/2016 3:43:47 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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