What is the
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| So all women's spaces are now unisex. Terrific. That's what they get for demanding access to men's spaces. Shame, I preferred it the original way with distinct spaces for men/women, but when you sow the wind... |
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Leftists, what more
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| Elections have consequences. |
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Optimistic Cynic
| Recall the shower scene in Starship Troopers. Didn't seem to be a problem in Sci-Fi. |
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Drill Here, Drill Now
| His dissent was 31 out of the 105 pages and begins on page 60. He used the phrase 3 times, but page after page tore their ruling apart: quote: Olympus Spa, et al. v. Armstrong, et al., No. 23-4031
VANDYKE, Circuit Judge, dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc:
This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa— a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit.
You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa—some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing.
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Yes, the introduction to this dissent intentionally uses indecorous language. But that is quite literally what this case is about. Male genitalia is precisely (and only) what the Spa, for religious reasons, objects to admitting into its female-only space. The fact that so many on our court want to pretend that this case is about anything other than swinging dicks is the very reason the shocking language is necessary. The panel majority uses slick legal arguments and deflection to studiously avoid eye contact with the actual and horrific consequences of its erroneous opinion. The “ordinary Americans” affected by the majority’s opinion don’t have that luxury. Squirm as we might, I think it’s only fair for our court to have a small taste of its own medicine.
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
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| I read that and apparently they have a problem w/ talking about swinging dicks, but not actual swinging dicks in front of children and women in an only female club.
How does anyone defend that? |
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His Royal Hiney
| quote: Originally posted by Graniteguy:
Elections have consequences.
In this case, erections, apparently.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
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| quote: Originally posted by 229DAK:
Germany, isn't it? Not an issue there from what I recall.
I remember the first time I experienced this. There were unisex changing/showers at the big indoor-outdoor pool in Stuutguart. Growing up in the modest south, I was bit timid to use them. So I went to the mens only. Well at the mens only there were teen girls leering in the entrance... Germany was, ummm different.
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No More
Mr. Nice Guy
| quote: Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
Germany was, ummm different.
Many years ago I was in Paris at a topless revue show with a German acquaintance. I practicing my pathetic German, he his excellent English. We were discussing the prudish American attitude vs the German and French attitudes. He commented that it should be against the law for your friend's hot mom to go topless on the beach around teen boys. lol, biology wins out every time. |
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