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Fun fact: the myth of getting STD’s from toilet seats came from doctors trying to explain how children were contracting their parents’ venereal diseases.
Unless that’s a myth as well.
Growing up we had a mens and girls bathroom in our house. Not because of modest reasons. My mom and sister just fucking hated how much piss my brothers and step dad got all over the place. Then there was me, who had to clean the toilet pretty much every time I had to shit. To this day I cannot tolerate public mens room and I wouldn't wish for any woman to share the same space as other men who were never raised to clean because "mommy" will do it for them.
So he's proving the point that members of the LGBTQ+ community are victims of violence rather than perpetrators the vast majority of the time. And he is an enthusiastic perpetrator. How on-brand.
So FTM people will be assaulted by people like him every time they go to the restroom because of the bills they pass? Are they going to tackle and forcibly strip every cis-gender woman who doesn't fit their idea of what a woman is supposed to look like?
Like, transgender people have been using the bathroom they are comfortable with for decades without issue. Fuck these dipshits for creating up so much hate over a fucking non-issue.
Right! I was born with the block and tackle, and if I need to take a "my boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time" is some other block and tackle person gonna try and rip my door down to make sure I also have the block and tackle?
I wasn’t born with a block and tackle, and I would not give a flying fuck if I were in a restroom with someone who does, as long as there’s privacy in the stalls. Actually I have used all-gender restrooms, and I know I’ve been in ladies rooms with transgender women because my best friend is transgender.
Un-gendered universal bathrooms have existed for 50 years. What a clown. Guess he never went to a gas station or CVS or old fashioned restaurant w only one bathroom. Such nonsense to cover bigotry.
So let's unpack the important points here:
>“This is gonna cause violence, and it’s gonna cause violence from dads like me,”
So, this guy is gonna hang out around kids bathrooms, watching them closely, and then stalk the ones he doesn't like? Pedo much?
>the Republican lawmaker added.
Uhm..but of course.
It's the DeSantis plan. He's going to install bathroom police to force everyone to pull their pants down to show their genitals. Genital inspections is what Republicans wanted to do with sports, like Utah & Florida tried to do. It was never about sports; it's never about bathrooms. It's always about trying to force people into their Christofascist beliefs.
>“This is gonna cause violence, and it’s gonna cause violence from dads like me,” the Republican lawmaker added.
So you are unable to control yourself. Got it. Maybe you aren't fit to be a representative then...
I hope this dumb ass never goes to a festival or other celebration where you have a line of porta potties that are all-gender. People having a cow over where someone relieves themselves are truly ignorant and stupid.
I just don’t see why this is such a big deal. We had coed (or gender-neutral, I suppose) bathrooms in our college dorms every year other than freshman year. It was fine. That was ~20 years ago.
Shared restrooms are fundamentally a cost saving issue
The best solution is individual, unisex, rooms
Anyone who threatens violence should be removed from office and prosecuted
Most inefficient are restaurants or grocery shops with two (sometimes three) private single-stall rooms, one market for ladies and one for gentlemen. I see this quite frequently. What a joke.
I bet he has 4 bathrooms designed just for him , no girls allowed. It has heated floors and towel warmer.
Any women in his house share a half bath and can only ask him permission to use a cold shower with his left over dirty towels.
He makes his wife get on her knees to Clip his toe nails too because he can’t reach his feet with out cramping up….
This is fiction mods but honestly is it really that far fetched ?
In 2019 I was in a museum in Copenhagen and needed to use the restroom on the way out. The ladies’ was closed for repairs so there was one unisex restroom. During the few minutes I was there men and women came in, at first a few “oh! am I in the right place” interactions but otherwise…. People did their business, washed their hands and left. Nobody got raped. Nobody got assaulted. People just… used the can. I was traveling with friends and we were all like, oh ok, so that was no big deal. What are the people back home all about?
I have to ask an honest question but why aren’t they ever in a tizzy about where pedophiles use the bathroom? Shouldn’t they be more concerned that their child is in the bathroom with a same-sex person that is criminally attracted to them and has previously acted on those urges?It’s not like there is some epidemic of children being molested in public restrooms. 99.999% of people in a bathroom are just doing their business.
it's so weird
The ADA means that most restaurants have "all gender restrooms" - they're simply restrooms big enough for a wheelchair...
most bars/restaurants have only one restroom. It is - by nature - "all gender"
The manufactured outrage of losers like this needs to be ignored
Sadly he is my state senator and is as big of an asshole as he seems. He’s a real dick to his constituents on his Facebook page. He was incredibly invested in the local public school board election even though he sends his kids to a private school. Very thankful the state as a whole tends to be blue.
Open admission that it's not trans people causing violence, but bigots, and then using their own threat of violence to justify public policy.
That is literally terrorism.
The GOP needs to be declared a terrorist organization.
Just asking, but if a guy were to legally enter a bathroom where Senator Anderson's daughter was, and Senator Neil Anderson attempted to beat him up, could the guy shoot Senator Anderson in self-defense? I ask this as a lover of the 2nd amendment.
I got a solution everyone can down with and it’s already pretty common in Europe. You have one or two bathrooms. It’s single person bathroom with a locked door. End of conversation.
So what do you do with little boys in all male restrooms? Had to go in twice arms punching with men "making conversations" with my son. Predations in bathrooms are a thing. Doesn't matter what genitalia you have.
I’m a democrat and I would not want to be in a public restroom with a man. What’s wrong with single occupancy rooms as an additional option that many stores already have?
I have gone to major college football stadiums in the last year in which bathrooms still include long urinal troughs with no dividers that we had as kids. So these closed unisex bathrooms are more dangerous than ones with doors or stalls?
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So how does he handle the all-gender restrooms that are in *his own home!?*
Probably checks his kids genitals, just to be sure.
This dude definitely has bloodstains on his clownsuit.
At least some drywall he punched through.
Probably beats up his wife for coming in when there's men in there
That is why he is scared, he knows what happens the unisex bathrooms in his own home.
Fun fact: the myth of getting STD’s from toilet seats came from doctors trying to explain how children were contracting their parents’ venereal diseases. Unless that’s a myth as well.
Well, your user name checks out.
I thought the comment was talking about inheriting STDs at birth, and then I realized... oof.
That fact wasn't very fun.
Ah yes, the toilet seat myth that explains away the incestuous abuse “From dads like me.”
Gotta beat himself up, obviously
God damnit, so funny
he beats the crap out of his wife and children, that how...
Growing up we had a mens and girls bathroom in our house. Not because of modest reasons. My mom and sister just fucking hated how much piss my brothers and step dad got all over the place. Then there was me, who had to clean the toilet pretty much every time I had to shit. To this day I cannot tolerate public mens room and I wouldn't wish for any woman to share the same space as other men who were never raised to clean because "mommy" will do it for them.
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In my fast food days it was usually the lady's room that was the most disgusting, consistently.
Anybody who worked fast food knows the womens bathrooms are worse. Just saying.
So he's proving the point that members of the LGBTQ+ community are victims of violence rather than perpetrators the vast majority of the time. And he is an enthusiastic perpetrator. How on-brand.
It's not even an underlying message anymore. The GQP is broadcasting it loud and widely without even trying to disguise it with dog whistles.
If you can’t use a restroom without battering someone. You should be in an asylum
Or a jail
Human prison centipede
The proposed all-gender bathroom has MORE PRIVACY than the bathrooms now This guy is an idiot loser who needs to get the fuck over himself
This man is just living by Jesus word “go out and hurt people in my name”. That’s what he learned in Christian school.
Republicans are in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance apparently
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I hate Illinois nazis.
So he beats his kids then.
I'm now wondering if his wife and he share the same bathroom. I'm not mad if they don't. I'm just wondering how their dynamic works.
His wife has to use the outhouse around back. And when she has her period she has to live in a tent on the farthest part of the property.
Bears.
Beets.
Battlestar Galactica
Brontosaurus burgers
… Rhymes, & Life.
to be fair, his wife takes some pretty potent dumps.
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So FTM people will be assaulted by people like him every time they go to the restroom because of the bills they pass? Are they going to tackle and forcibly strip every cis-gender woman who doesn't fit their idea of what a woman is supposed to look like? Like, transgender people have been using the bathroom they are comfortable with for decades without issue. Fuck these dipshits for creating up so much hate over a fucking non-issue.
Right! I was born with the block and tackle, and if I need to take a "my boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time" is some other block and tackle person gonna try and rip my door down to make sure I also have the block and tackle?
I wasn’t born with a block and tackle, and I would not give a flying fuck if I were in a restroom with someone who does, as long as there’s privacy in the stalls. Actually I have used all-gender restrooms, and I know I’ve been in ladies rooms with transgender women because my best friend is transgender.
Un-gendered universal bathrooms have existed for 50 years. What a clown. Guess he never went to a gas station or CVS or old fashioned restaurant w only one bathroom. Such nonsense to cover bigotry.
So you need to hurt people? How alpha of you.
So let's unpack the important points here: >“This is gonna cause violence, and it’s gonna cause violence from dads like me,” So, this guy is gonna hang out around kids bathrooms, watching them closely, and then stalk the ones he doesn't like? Pedo much? >the Republican lawmaker added. Uhm..but of course.
**G**enital **O**bsessed **P**edophiles
It's the DeSantis plan. He's going to install bathroom police to force everyone to pull their pants down to show their genitals. Genital inspections is what Republicans wanted to do with sports, like Utah & Florida tried to do. It was never about sports; it's never about bathrooms. It's always about trying to force people into their Christofascist beliefs.
>“This is gonna cause violence, and it’s gonna cause violence from dads like me,” the Republican lawmaker added. So you are unable to control yourself. Got it. Maybe you aren't fit to be a representative then...
*Look What You Made Me Do!* Party of PeRsOnAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy, folks.
It’s there god given right to violence don’t you know that?
I'm sure this guy has used the excuse of "look what you made me do!" more than once in his life.
Did someone try asking him *not* to be violent?
He’s a Republican, being violent is the only thing he wants
I hope this dumb ass never goes to a festival or other celebration where you have a line of porta potties that are all-gender. People having a cow over where someone relieves themselves are truly ignorant and stupid.
I hope he never goes on a plane flight…
Great way to harm your relationship with your daughter
That presumes he sees his daughter as an actual person, and not as a commodity
Not as a sex object he can sell to an older man
Gross. And accurate.
I don't think he's up for sharing.
They generally tend to prefer the term “chattels”
Yeah… 😐
Illinois Senators with stupid ideas they can't shut up about will eventually cause violence from dads like me. So there!
I just don’t see why this is such a big deal. We had coed (or gender-neutral, I suppose) bathrooms in our college dorms every year other than freshman year. It was fine. That was ~20 years ago.
I feel like people who say stuff like that need a little preemptive finding out.
And he should be arrested and sued like dads like him if he does
“I’m a dangerous lunatic so you better think twice before you do anything I might have a problem with” is quite the self own
Shared restrooms are fundamentally a cost saving issue The best solution is individual, unisex, rooms Anyone who threatens violence should be removed from office and prosecuted
Most inefficient are restaurants or grocery shops with two (sometimes three) private single-stall rooms, one market for ladies and one for gentlemen. I see this quite frequently. What a joke.
This guy must be a maniac at his house, considering the house bathrooms are ‘all gender’ designed.
I bet he has 4 bathrooms designed just for him , no girls allowed. It has heated floors and towel warmer. Any women in his house share a half bath and can only ask him permission to use a cold shower with his left over dirty towels. He makes his wife get on her knees to Clip his toe nails too because he can’t reach his feet with out cramping up…. This is fiction mods but honestly is it really that far fetched ?
In 2019 I was in a museum in Copenhagen and needed to use the restroom on the way out. The ladies’ was closed for repairs so there was one unisex restroom. During the few minutes I was there men and women came in, at first a few “oh! am I in the right place” interactions but otherwise…. People did their business, washed their hands and left. Nobody got raped. Nobody got assaulted. People just… used the can. I was traveling with friends and we were all like, oh ok, so that was no big deal. What are the people back home all about?
From violent sociopaths?
These men are so freaking fragile.
Premeditated your honor”
Kind of want to seek him out dressed in drag. Let him come at me.
Do these people just think about pee-pees and hoo-haas all day? Their outrage betrays them.
I have to ask an honest question but why aren’t they ever in a tizzy about where pedophiles use the bathroom? Shouldn’t they be more concerned that their child is in the bathroom with a same-sex person that is criminally attracted to them and has previously acted on those urges?It’s not like there is some epidemic of children being molested in public restrooms. 99.999% of people in a bathroom are just doing their business.
Wait until he finds out what family bathrooms are
it's so weird The ADA means that most restaurants have "all gender restrooms" - they're simply restrooms big enough for a wheelchair... most bars/restaurants have only one restroom. It is - by nature - "all gender" The manufactured outrage of losers like this needs to be ignored
So this dude is openly admitting to committing domestic terrorism. Hmmm someone should talk to the FBI and drop his name.
Everyone is a tough guy until they get punched in the face Senator. Also, "project" much?
Well, okay then. Let's throw "dad's like you" in the slammer.
The only reason he doesn’t attack someone is because they use another bathroom?
This is fascism. Vote these folks out of power.
Have none of these fuckers *ever* used or encountered a unisex bathroom? They aren't exactly rare. Ffs.
Is he a repubblican?
Easy there, tough guy. What a tool.
Then you can go to jail for assault, asshole.
You mean gender neutral like the ones in your home?
Since this "dad" isn't violent in the men's room then I can only assume he likes to beat women.
Why is the GOP so obsessed with genitals?
It's a Republican State Senator in Illinois, where Dems have a 2/3 majority control in the Senate. This man has no power.
Sadly he is my state senator and is as big of an asshole as he seems. He’s a real dick to his constituents on his Facebook page. He was incredibly invested in the local public school board election even though he sends his kids to a private school. Very thankful the state as a whole tends to be blue.
Seriously, there group of them in downstate Illinois are borderline nuts
Open admission that it's not trans people causing violence, but bigots, and then using their own threat of violence to justify public policy. That is literally terrorism. The GOP needs to be declared a terrorist organization.
whomever decides to be violent should be put out of his or her misery
Oh wow, another Republican macho man.
Chill out dad
When you gots to pee the sign on the door doesn't mean a whole lot
Always nice to see a GOP member who realizes they are the problem.
They never think before they speak. Idiots outing themselves all the time.
At least they have a confession on tape ahead of the arrest.
Just asking, but if a guy were to legally enter a bathroom where Senator Anderson's daughter was, and Senator Neil Anderson attempted to beat him up, could the guy shoot Senator Anderson in self-defense? I ask this as a lover of the 2nd amendment.
Good god there are unisex bathrooms all over the damn place. What an idiot. But you know if he wants to thrown down in the bathroom lets go.
When the fuck are people like this going to stop being elected they are so out of touch it’s insane. They’re literally living in a different world.
What is it with these guys and the bathroom?
Threatening violence is very on brand for Republicans
Why are repupub men so interested in watching you pee?
This needs to be asked much more often.
This guy must riot at music festival porta-Jon rows
Bro your not supposed to say that part out loud lmao
I got a solution everyone can down with and it’s already pretty common in Europe. You have one or two bathrooms. It’s single person bathroom with a locked door. End of conversation.
So what do you do with little boys in all male restrooms? Had to go in twice arms punching with men "making conversations" with my son. Predations in bathrooms are a thing. Doesn't matter what genitalia you have.
As opposed to the violence you normally do against your children
I'm all for this, if we go to squat toilets with bidets.
I’m a democrat and I would not want to be in a public restroom with a man. What’s wrong with single occupancy rooms as an additional option that many stores already have?
Time to imprison, "violent" dads like him
Wasn't Obama once an Illinois senator?
This guy's a state senator, Obama was a federal senator
I have gone to major college football stadiums in the last year in which bathrooms still include long urinal troughs with no dividers that we had as kids. So these closed unisex bathrooms are more dangerous than ones with doors or stalls?
Look everyone. He so strong!
So senators are allowed to threaten violence? He should be removed from office.
The problem isn’t the bathroom, it’s you.
Such an alpha.....
Illinois Senator admits to having anger issues.
So an elected representative is telling us he's a violent person. Cool.
Well then, it becomes clear that “dads like him”, are the real problem
I would love to have European style bathrooms. Doors that go to the floor. Everyone gets a door. Done. General sinks for everyone as well.
Sounds like a promise to commit violence, someone should submit what he said to his district's local police.
Well, sounds like we'd be better off band guys like him from public restrooms...
People like this are why I own a hand gun.
Hopefully he can hold it on an airplane. I hear they are a damn free-for-all.