{"id":9105,"date":"2020-06-20T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:40:23","slug":"get-over-it-and-go-pee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2020\/06\/20\/get-over-it-and-go-pee\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Get over it and go pee&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAlison Bechdel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dianalouisej\/status\/1273221001292152840?s=20\">already knew the score in 1995<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/dykes-to-watch-out-for.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" alt=\"Dykes to Watch Out For comic from 1995 on transphobia\" class =\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe titular <cite>Dykes to Watch Out Fo<\/cite> are walking out of a bad movie, when Jillian has to pee. Mo, who has to do the same, doesn&#8217;t want to enter the loo because Jillian, though cool, is a trans woman. Lois tells her off, saying she&#8217;s not going to wait around all night just because Mo has a transphobia attack. So Mo enters the toilets, only to be challenged by a woman on whether she is in the right bathroom. (Mo looks rather butch after all.) Jillian defends her, telling the stranger to take a closer look. After this, Mo thanks Jillian and says she would do the same for her. This is however no longer necessary now her &#8220;nobody knows I&#8217;m a transsexual&#8221; t-shirt has worn out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo there you have it, the absurdity of the bathroom panic laid bare in a twentyfive year old comic. Trans women are no danger, the idea that you can tell who is and is not a woman at a glance is deeply homophobic and barring people from pissing in the toilets they feel most comfortable in is ludicrous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Bechdel already knew the score in 1995: The titular Dykes to Watch Out Fo are walking out of a bad movie, when Jillian has to pee. Mo, who has to do the same, doesn&#8217;t want to enter the loo because Jillian, though cool, is a trans woman. Lois tells her off, saying she&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1802,294],"tags":[2704,2705],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-gender","category-lgbt","tag-alison-bechdel","tag-dykes-to-watch-out-for"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}