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Look, I'm okay with the 'free the nipple' movement lol. We except obese men with manboobs flopping them out after all.....
As for bathrooms, most children who use them on their own would be in places like schools etc. I personally take mine to any public toilet if they need to use them.
But lets say we snap our fingers and 'poof!'. Every bathroom and change room was unisex. Which sex will be the most at risk in a high school / college setting?
There is a power play you ignore here. Statistically, females are more at risk of violence from men then men are from women. I'm not saying men are never victims - they are. Everything has to be based on its merits. But it would be foolish for society to
impose on women having them naked with naked men - and to hell with their own feelings about that.
You are basically advocating a society in which they can not participate in if they dont feel comfortable about something. Whether that's through their culture, religion or life experience. So if a woman wants to go to the gym without being hit on, gawked at or harassed - too bad. Female only gyms are banned and she has to go to one where she knows she will be harassed. Want to relax in a spa naked without sharing the water with a bunch of dribbling schlongs? Buy your own spa (good luck affording one). No more businesses to accommodate your desire
Then you have all sorts of issues with religion and cultures in our multi cultural countries that you take a steaming dump on. Sure - I believe their faith and God and some of their rules are over the top and stupid. But we are a cultured species that have a lot of differences after all. Sometimes a middle ground has to be found. It wont be a solution - but then these are issues in which there isn't any 'one size fits all' solution
Men and women are different. They can be different and you can still treat them equally and with dignity and respect - but you cant pretend they are the same. You cant pretend they think the same. You cant pretend that they feel the same. And you cant pretend they are born and live through the same challenges.
This gym seems not to have faced legal hurdles boasting about its male only membership
https://www.theleader.com.au/story/3372713/its-hardcore-new-gym-opens-for-men-only/Here's another
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-men-only-gym-raising-27270518On that subject, you have your opinion on the subject and I have mine. I dont think yours is wrong - just a few decades 'ahead' of the times. I hope one day the world can be less hung up on this issue - but that's not a change that will happen overnight. Give it a few generations - and of course, religion will have had to have had its day. No more Gods dictating how we should live our life (eg Abrahamic faiths).
On the subject of men and women in sports - well unless we want podiums filled with basically only men, we should keep things segregated
I mean, we BAN for the use of any drug that
may even give a hint of shaving miliseconds of time in a race. Or even if you were busted with a diuretic in the system which does fuck all to your performance but
could have been used to hide something illicit
But then you want to pit the likes of women in say the 100/400m sprint against the likes of say Usain Bolt? In what universe will any woman lined up at the start of the race ever think they have a chance of coming first? Or any winning position?
You think women will want to even join sports if they know they have no chance? Or if their safety is severely compromised compared with their male counterparts? You would find participation of women in sport will be drastically reduced if they are forced into competitions where the odds are massively stacked against them.
Also spectators would get bored real quick. It would not be interesting to continuously watch a sport and already know the likely outcome before play has even started. So that's revenue that would dry up. So would betting agencies (which would probably be a good thing come to think of it lol)
You do already have sports which have it mixed where there is no issue or advantage to sex. And as far as I know, even things like a karate tournament you can have females fight males. My own instructors daughter did this and she beat the shit out of them. In the dojo there is no problem with males and females sparring either.
But hey, lets agree to disagree. That's the enlightened thing to do in a situation where neither party will budge on their position