Piper

At university we had uni-sex toilets - no problems.

Also having had to access male toilets due to inadequate number of female toilets at theatres and other public events - would unisex toilets solve the issue? Or be an excuse to build less toilets?

As for the proposal of building additional toilets for third gender.... build enough toilets for all and get over this gender thing. Who cares what someone's sexual identity is about? The only people who are concerned are those who feel their masculinity is somehow threatened by even the mention of homosexuals or trans-gender.

I notice that Pynchme commented on the pattern that male-to-female trannies take is generally towards the idealised version of femininity - more female than female. While I don't doubt that people do not identify with the sex of the body they inhabit, I too find it disconcerting that trannies take on such a superficial ideal of what it is to be female.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxLBpa7g5fg

Little Britain gets it.

That was brilliant, I’d never seen any of Little Britain before and it reminded me of Monty Python.

Really just remove urinals everywhere aye and take the lables off the doors. Must admit I want a toddler bathroom with a little urinal, I’m sure it would decrease the number of accidents.

The transgender and transsexual people I have known exaggerated their roles. Maybe that is what they are drawn to and what they perceive as the “true” male/female persona? Made them all extreme feminists and chauvinists in my mind and they bugged me know end at times, I am not a girlie girl and never have been.

My ex-female friend who is living as a male e-mailed me recently – after not hearing anything for over 7 years now and s/he contacts me just as I was posting in this thread – people just kind of find you on facebook aye. They are a hassled by “rednecks”, this is just for being a gay male and I’m sure the hassling would increase tenfold if they knew s/he was biologically a she. Oh not completely accurate, some things have been removed I gather.

Wonder how boarding schools get on with kids that have taken a step to the right.

Piper

"The transgender and transsexual people I have known exaggerated their roles."

That's my experience as well. I agree about the extreme sexist behaviour from either gender variant.

There needs to be change rooms for the kiddies - ones where either a father or mother can care for their infant.

Glad you enjoyed "Little Britain" - you should check them out - hilarious stuff, although they can be very extreme with their targets for satire, but the men, Matt Lucas and David Walliams are wonderful inspiring people in the real world.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/sport/sport_aid.htm

And Matt Lucas is a patron of the The Karen Morris Memorial Trust, a UK charity for leukaemia patients and their families. In 2004 he appeared on Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and won £62,500 for the charity.

You will also enjoy Matt Lucas' "Only gay in the village" sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YHbTjpjUEI

Haha... That was cool, dinner was late last night cause I got hooked on them. Which is David and which one Matt?

I am all in favour of parent toilets, there’s a good one in my local mall with changing table kitchenette and microwave – place for the breastfeeding mums to have a bit of peace and quiet. Much nicer here than in NZ. It provides a good time out/calm down spot as well.

You ever been in a (lower class I htink) gay bar? Years ago I was and what a horrible experience going toilet – the women trying to act like they think men act and glaring at you. Was a couple of butch dykes (don’t know if that is PC) probably full of testosterone shots or something.

Rude though, I haven't known men to do that to a female in the same circumstance.

Piper

I have found the most extreme behaviour of some lesbians to be equal to that of some straight males, dunno why they ape the worst of male behaviour. That said, back when I used to go clubbing, I felt very safe going out with lesbian women, whereas out with my gay male friends, there was always a chance that some straights would pick a fight with my friends.

I recall one New Year's Eve I went to a notorious gay pub in Fitzroy, Melbourne, thinking at least I be safe from the male grope while making my way through the crowd - I was probably pinched and groped more than in a straight bar. Whattha? Were they checking to see if I was real? But hey, that's humans for you. Weird one day, weirder the next.

Haha so you 'wasted' time on Little Britain - at least when you got around to making dinner you would've been laughing to yourself. Matt is the short one and David the tall.

I think we have solved the problems with loos - available to all with special sections for parents.

Now, how do we bring about world peace?

Oh Fractelle you’re gonna have to give me a few more minutes to work on that one...

Awhile ago I watched this SciFi movie, I really enjoyed it but have no idea what it was called and only ever watched the last twenty minutes. The basic theme was the universe gone mad with some really rabid humans in spaceships slaughtering the peace loving ones when they could.

Turned out that a drug the human race had been put on to be kept calm had kind of had an allergic reaction and the rabid types were the result. On the other hand the rest of the people went so passive they didn’t defend themselves.

A better drug would be my answer or some sort of little lobotomy at birth. Ironic but I think there is some part of the human brain that needs removing to make everyone smarter.

Doing what I do I meet some rather strange people, often I’ll meet three generations at the same time. I seriously have no idea how they function and it’s not like I have particularly high standards. They are incredibly damaging… and trapped by choice and then trap subsequent generations.

These are people who cannot identify a need to improve their life, themselves, their kids lives, or their world because it was okay for their parents. They make me shudder.