It’s always fun to come home at night and find yellow “Do-not-cross” police line attached to your house. Luckily it was only attached to my house so that it could rap around the neighbors house, and fortunately it wasn’t anything too terrible. He assaulted a door to door salesman. He’s gonna be spending some time in jail now. The funny thing is that when the officer told me what was going on I wasn’t really suprised. He’s a little… crazy. This isn’t his first run in with the cops. He’s been in trouble before for keying cars that park in front of his house, cranking his stereo to the max at odd hours in the morning, and mowing his lawn naked. I guess what they say about postal workers is true (no offense to all you postal workers).
Anyway, what I really wanted to post about is a law that Colorado legislatures recently passed. If you’re a man and you dress like a woman or say you’re a woman then you can now use any women’s bathroom in Colorado. It took me a little off guard since I didn’t think Colorado would be the first to pass this kind of law. But we are so here we go. This worries me, and before you get all worked up and start spouting off stuff about equal rights hear me out. What worries me is how far we are willing to go in the name of making things fair. I’m not worried about the average transexual who wants to use the womans bathroom so he can feel like a real woman. I’m worried about who can take advantage of this law. Any sexual predator can hang out in the girls bathroom now and say he’s a woman to get away with it.
In the interest of fairness plenty of boys are molested by men every year, but girls are far more likely to be victims of sexual predators (http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims). I believe in fairness, but we have to find some sort of balance between fairness and practicality. I worked at a preschool for over a year, and I was the brunt of all sorts of discrimination because I am a man. If a child needed to change for any reason I wan’t allowed to help him/her. If the kid really needed help I had to go get a woman. I put up with this sort of thing because I knew that men are far more likely to be sexually abusive and it is better for the preschool to safe then sorry, meaning making a no exception rule made sense to me. It wasn’t really “fair,” but I knew that if they made an exception for me than would make it even more unfair for every guy that comes after.
It’s also unfair in the way that I am not naturally gifted with skills that make good money in today’s economy. If it was fair we would have communism. And I’m not saying this jokingly. I’m truly upset that no matter how hard I try I never make the money or get the promotions that this guy over here gets because I’m not good with computers or people or being a complete meglomania jerk (i.e. manager). But that’s what life has dealt me, and I have to ask how far we should go in trying to make things fair. For almost every food there is an someone with an allergy to it. Does that mean that all restraunts and displays of public eating should be outlawed? What if the only thing that made a guy happy was to deface private property? Should we make it fair for him too? The reason you say no is because it’s too great an incovenience for everyone else for you to except. I think we’ve been slowly inching the acceptable line of harm that is caused to the general public farther and farther becasue nobody has stopped to ask how far we should let it go in the name of fairness.
Life can’t be fair for everyone. It just can’t. I don’t even think it’s ever been completely fair for anyone ever. If that’s true then I think we can say that everyone gets their fair share…. whatever life deals them. We can try help each other out, but making laws that make it “fair” for a man that thinks he’s a woman but have potential to do great harm to everyone else is insane.