All Activity

Get in.

Marmoush looks absolutely shit tonight.

Mad how many empty seats there are for such a big game

For what its worth your cubicle thing would be an easy sell for me. Its expensive though and there's only a few trans lives on the line, so it won't happen.

I cannot get past this. I do not get how people can be filled with this much hate. As much as I would like to be more informed on this area, I feel this is actually something that, I am ashamed to admit, I do not actually want to know. I appreciate the replies, thank you

We have statistics that say trans women suffer violence from cis men at a rate 4 times higher than cis women do. We don't have anything on bathrooms that I can see, though I did find a reddit thread asking trans people this exact thing and them all replying that men's rooms were less safe/they'd been attacked/they don't bother to use public restrooms anymore full stop because they're not welcome anywhere. The difference is that we have been monitoring trans women in women's bathrooms for violence and have found nothing. For a decade, in Ireland's case. We haven't been monitoring trans women in men's bathrooms, presumably because they weren't using them if they passed as women. As a separate thing, apparently the high court ruling said that as well as trans women not being allowed in women's bathrooms, trans men aren't either So neither trans men or women have any guaranteed right to the use of public toilets as we stand, because both cis genders can ban them from their own. Come on man, this shit is indefensible. This is second class citizen levels of erasure.

I 100% agree, I don't think that this is right. I do think that there should be safe spaces where people can shower or use the toilet. Like the toilets in France. My view on this is not based on the trans debate. I think this is something that a lot of people would benefit from. People who have had horrendous events in their life or people who just do not feel comfortable/ safe in a shared space. I don't feel overly comfortable in communal changing rooms. I once had a bloke, who I turned out to know, accidentally walk in on me when I was using the shower at a gym. We laughed it off as it was a genuine mistake but I image that this would be traumatising from someone who had a previous experience. I can imagine that if it had happened to a trans women then the genuine mistake would definitely not appear that way and could have destroyed his life.

They're dreadful. Unless they're playing us.

I was informed of a man who is in a same sex relationship receiving the most vile abuse, at his place of work, that I have heard of. I don't understand this view. I am also shocked to see it at 20%. On the other hand, I feel uncomfortable when I see most people kissing. I do get that what not the question in the survey.

I’ve got no statistics but put yourself in the shoes of a trans woman going to the gym and having to use the male showers.

Martinez has played more through balls than the city team. They're fucking dour to watch

This is a genuine question. Is there statistics to show that tans women are unsafe in male toilets or that this is an area where they would be more likely to be attacked? I am not trying to push the other side of the argument but I did a quick search and I couldn't find anything. I am genuinely wanting to be more informed on this area rather than pushing back on you.

20% of the country today feel very uncomfortable seeing two men kissing yet we legalised it nearly 60 years ago. What you call feelings I call prejudices. Personally I think most of the country wouldn’t be arsed about it. Referendum anyone?

What about the actual lack of safety that trans women will now face in men's bathrooms, as opposed to the fictional lack of safety that cis-women had in theirs? Less important than people's feelings? People feel also afraid that white people are being replaced, that Muslims are trying to stealth conquer the UK, that the government is run by paedophiles, that lizard people walk amongst us, chemtrails, vaccines, 5G, and so on. We aren't reacting to any of those because there is no evidence of them being true. Same as trans women attacking cis women in bathrooms has no evidence. It is instead an issue that has been politicised by the right because it intensifies their support in their base. Meanwhile it is kryptonite to someone like Starmer who is trying to seduce right wingers and assuming he can hold onto the left just because we're all afraid of the right. Starmer does not fucking care about this issue either way, I guarantee it. His statement is a decision to generate political capital at the expense of a vulnerable group in society. That's all it is. And it is pathetic. We are now being led not by evidence, not by reality, but by blind fucking fear. It will not stop here.

I wouldn’t mind some red cards for Villa though

I'd rather we won on Saturday to go 5 points (effectively 6 with GD) ahead of Villa. With only 4 games left to play, that should more or less ensure they can't catch us. And then we only need to pick off one more of Chelsea or Forest.

I don’t see the decision itself as divisive. This isn’t America where the judiciary is politicised, the Supreme Court has in no way declared that they agreed with the law, they just clarified how the current law should be interpreted. If Starmer disagrees with the current law then he could change it in the morning. But he won’t because he has no convictions and balls the size of peanuts. If he had this view for years then I’d disagree with him but at least he’d have a strongly held view. Turns out he’s as much of a wet blanket as he initially appeared.

As long as we win on Saturday today’s result isn’t really important as we will increase the gap to either team or both.

I think Kier Starmer is in a very difficult position. No matter what the outcome here was, it is going to cause a lot of hurt and upset. Some of the posts state about the evidence of increased attacks. I don't think that is about statistics. It is about how something makes someone feel. No matter what the outcome here, it is going to hurt a lot of feelings. Let trans women into bathrooms with biological women (if I have got the terminology wrong, it is a genuine mistake not a deliberate affront) then some biological women will feel uncomfortable and feel their right to a set space is violated. If you do not let trans women into bathrooms with biological women then they feel that their right to a set space is violated. I think people some people will have very strong views in both directions and then there is people who don't really have a viewpoint on it (I fall into this camp). In term of Starmer's approach on this, I feel this is one of the more reasonable ones to not be as clear on. It is such a hard one to call as it is all based on how people feel as a opposed to evidence. Some of the other decisions e.g. Brexit are stupid as there is clear data behind it. What people think today is vastly different to what people will feel in two years time.

Everything we feared.

To all of you moaning that the membership is a waste of money, I’ve just been given exclusive pre-sale access to our preseason match against Arsenal… in Singapore.

Thats a pen

I fucking detest Kier Starmer. I had ridiculously low expectations of him, and he's managed to be much much worse that I could ever have imagined

Thats a massive fuck up by Martinez