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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surely "fuck off you stupid cunt" is the only reasonable response to such a request?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly. I would NEVER "prove" anything to anyone. The proper response is to collect their name, the manager's name, and hire a lawyer to send a letter to corporate.

[–] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Why the fuck would anyone give a shit what a buffalo wild wings employee wanted you to do FFS. Have a little backbone. "You, an hourly employee of a restaurant chain, wants me to do WHAT? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit!" is the appropriate response to someone who has zero capacity to arrest you or even give you a ticket.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

This would be better if it became "Minnesota server told to “fuck off you stupid cunt” by teen who they were trying to force to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom"

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (6 children)

If you’re a minor being questioned like this, start screaming PEDO. Guaranteed they back down once they realize what she said and what they’re doing is quite disturbing

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guaranteed they back down once they realize what she said and what they’re doing is quite disturbing

Cruelty isn't a bug, it's a feature. MAGA has a massive cruelty hardon. The dumbth voted for this because they are seething with resentment at being made to feel stupid (by the "intellectual elites") and backwards (by progressives) and ignorant (by the informed) and intolerant (by the woke). You can literally hear what they're pissed about in the names that they call people. They WANT people hurt. They WANT revenge. THIS is what the dumbth want.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I want THEM hurt too! I want them to get the peeeerfect caricature of what they believe in, and watch them suffer under.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I want them to be smarter and less hateful. They would be a lot happier if they worked to improve themselves instead of trying to tear everyone else down.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope, shout "Fire". No one comes for rape, I doubt anymore come for pedo. But fire? They'll come.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel like yelling fire will make people run away, not toward.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Don't yell Rape, or every MAGA will come running to join in.

You would think. But no, apparently most human beings are kinda weird, and mostly stupid. Just look at how people behave behind the wheel of a car, when they are driving past an accident. It could be someone turned into a meat crayon, or looking like Anakin Skywalker after Obi Wan cuts his legs off. People not only break sharply to see whats going on, everyone behind them does as well. Usually creating very slowed down traffic for miles if there enough of them.

I think it has something to do with getting involved. Rape, you have to get involved. Pedo, you have to get involved, fire? You can just watch. I mean, dont quote me on that. Thats just a guess as to why it happens.

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What was the computer doing in the bathroom in the first place?

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is fully sexual assault

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But it is for their own good. Without measures like this, they might end up in bathrooms with perv… hey wait a minute. 💡

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The craziest part to me is as a parent I've gone in the opposite gendered bathroom so many times because places won't put changing tables in the mens rooms. I've never had anyone bat an eye at it either

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

A mom with a baby isn't who they want to murder.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Soooo... A guy with a gun in front of every toilet

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And this is in a state with no anti-trans bathroom laws. This server has no excuse other than being a complete piece of shit. Wish they'd name and shame her.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Based on the article the server is a woman.

“She made me feel very uncomfortable,” Mudra said. “After that, I just don’t like going in public bathrooms. I just hold it in. ... I want to be able to use the bathroom in peace.”

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (7 children)

She should press charges for harrassment.

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[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 52 points 2 days ago (7 children)

can we switch to gender neutral bathrooms please?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (9 children)

But can you prove your gender is neutral? 🧐

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Then you need to use the one with a picture of a goose on the door

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It’s gross that the victim of this scenario is now made public and yet the sexual abuser identity here is protected? Wtf.

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[–] MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It seems like these news stories only get written when the victim is a cis person mistaken for being trans.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are way more cis people.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One thing is that these are the stories that actually have some vague chance at swaying a person that thinks we should be policing trans use of bathrooms. If they see more trouble and harassment of the class of people they think they are protecting, maybe part of them has to see it's doing even more against their cause than the alternative.

Another is that trans people are relatively more rare, so it just makes plain sense that this will usually happen to a cisgender person. If someone thinks that someone seems not to look like their gender, odds still are that they are cisgender just by the numbers.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago

The biggest group affected are most likely ciswomen, since people love to control how women look and act, and there's just way, way less transwomen in the toilets. Meaning the most commonly happening effect of these crazy bathroom laws is basically punishing ciswomen for not looking feminine enough

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 48 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Welcome to Republicans' America. This comes right after Trump's administration started forcing trans folks out of the military, yet denying them retirement benefits. People with 15-18 years of service to our country that had been previously approved for early retirement have now had that rescinded because they are "medically unfit". The hatred is in full force...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-air-force-denies-early-retirement-group-transgender-service-members-2025-08-07/

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 293 points 2 days ago (70 children)

Who in the world said servers are authorized to demand such a thing?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 295 points 2 days ago (17 children)

She apparently was a self-appointed bathroom gender-inspector. Transphobes feeling bold these days.

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