I got into a fight at JT/JZ. Seriously.
I drunkenly screamed at a dude seven inches taller than me and said very not nice things in his general direction. Because I was in the men's bathroom, and I didn't wanna leave. Instead, I've decided to crusade for my right to use it.
I was at the Jay Z and Justin Timberlake concert at Candlestick. It was a shockingly open and anti-discriminatory place. Example: at one point they played "Forever Young." For Trayvon Martin. And the above tribute occurred. But before that, JT intro'd "Mirrors," and he begged everyone to sing along if they felt it, whether they were a guy with their girl, a girl with their guy, a girl with their girl, or a guy with their guy."
What was not at all open about the evening were the stalls in the women's restrooms. The event was 70% woman in a venue designed for crowds of 25% women. More importantly, all bathrooms were so crowded that no one could have so much as coughed without 30 people hearing about it, and therefore no one was in danger of any kind of assault. Except from me.
Because I really don't get why under those circumstances [cisgender] men would have the audacity to yell at a long line of desperate women about to piss themselves that the "men's room" was somehow sacred space, that the men's stalls were not available to women. Well, fuck that. Bitches gotta piss too. And it's about time we stopped pretending like gendered spaces are culturally important; they maintain distinctions that are totally unnecessary. And they made 50,000 women nearly piss themselves during the Legends of Summer Tour.
I drunkenly screamed at a dude seven inches taller than me and said very not nice things in his general direction. Because I was in the men's bathroom, and I didn't wanna leave. Instead, I've decided to crusade for my right to use it.
I was at the Jay Z and Justin Timberlake concert at Candlestick. It was a shockingly open and anti-discriminatory place. Example: at one point they played "Forever Young." For Trayvon Martin. And the above tribute occurred. But before that, JT intro'd "Mirrors," and he begged everyone to sing along if they felt it, whether they were a guy with their girl, a girl with their guy, a girl with their girl, or a guy with their guy."
What was not at all open about the evening were the stalls in the women's restrooms. The event was 70% woman in a venue designed for crowds of 25% women. More importantly, all bathrooms were so crowded that no one could have so much as coughed without 30 people hearing about it, and therefore no one was in danger of any kind of assault. Except from me.
Because I really don't get why under those circumstances [cisgender] men would have the audacity to yell at a long line of desperate women about to piss themselves that the "men's room" was somehow sacred space, that the men's stalls were not available to women. Well, fuck that. Bitches gotta piss too. And it's about time we stopped pretending like gendered spaces are culturally important; they maintain distinctions that are totally unnecessary. And they made 50,000 women nearly piss themselves during the Legends of Summer Tour.
