This is the whole issue. There is a big enough proportion of men that cannot be trusted in women's spaces that all men have a duty to recognise that women have to have their own spaces in which men are not allowed. As I once saw somewhere - "How do you recognise a man who would be safe in a women's changing room? He doesn't want to be in one."
It does make me uncomfortable to regarded as being a potential risk by virtue of my genes, but the reality is that men have allowed other men to be abusers for so long that it is a miracle that any women want anything to do with us at all. We, as men, need to get a grip on this.
If this stupid movement enables this man to sue women for reporting the crime of indecent exposure and voyeurism, I may just blow a gasket. What the eff.
Showing up with black masks and baseball bats to oppose women protesting a sex offender exposing himself to children. A brief detour on what is surely the path to the right side of history
Massive red flag here: "Andy Ngo got to speak to Merager, and was told by him “If you go into an area where you’re expected to be nude, there has to be an indecent exposure exemption.”
There’s an answer that doesn’t seem to have occurred to him: don’t go into that area. Stay in the area where people with penises are expected to be nude.
Simple but effective.
On the other hand, it wouldn’t turn him on. And that’s what it boils down to.
This is all priceless, isn't it? A rap sheet a mile long, including for exposure but other crimes like burglary. On the sex offenders list. It just doesn't get any better than this.
When the Guardian celebrated 200 years of journalism, they had a section entitled 'what we got wrong' over the course of those 200 years. Well, they should have as long a list for the past 10 years. What a shower!
Firstly, I complained to YouTube again about the fact that my account had been removed. My account that is 13 years old, that I had paid for movies on. FINALLY it has been given back to me but it makes me really nervous about how easily we can be switched off of someone so chooses.
I have to comment here because I am so angered at Lois Beckett and Sam Levin. They have written about this in the Guardian again and keep framing it as if it is only right wing groups against this utter madness.
They covered what happened to Sarah Everard. It's shocking the lack of empathy that these arseholes have for the women and girl who were unwittingly part of this man's fetish.
We know that Wayne Couzens had previously exposed himself and gotten away with it. Voyeurism is clearly a way of testing the waters to see how much they can get away with before upping the ante.
When I was younger I went to an all girl's school and next to our school was a huge park and a lot of girls walked home through that park. We were always told not to walk alone and actually told not to go there at all because of flasher(S). Now if the flasher is even closer to you in a confined area you're a damn bigot for pointing out the penis in the room.
I'm really angered by this. By this whole thing. When will people see it for what it is? When will women stop pandering to dick and start sticking up for their sisters?
This isn't transphobic. This is a very real and warranted fear of men who's conviction rate is already so bloody damn low and now they're being given extra protection by using trans laws that are so blatantly riddled with loopholes for men to terrorise women.
The stats for "women" committing crimes of a sexual nature must have spiked considering the amount of dick pandering that's going on.
Yes to everything you write. It is a sad fact that women are the only group who get no redress when complaining of hate speech, harassment (sexual or otherwise) and death threats
It seems the bloody Guardian does not see the connection between the low conviction rate and the lighter and lighter sentencing for violent assault, and the rising amount of misogynists abusing woolly transgender laws. They also wring their hands at 'rape culture' in schools and universities, while cheering for mixed toilet facilities there, not seeing this change as a new opportunity for predators.
I spoke with Lois Beckett for over an hour after the second protest (I attended both and took stills and video), and she ignored every point I made. Her reporting is so blatantly biased that, as a former journalist, I am embarrassed for her. She was just this side of nasty to me.
He’s not only claiming he’s a victim of “transphobic harrasment” not only from the several women who noticed him flashing his erection, but also from “the state”.
While at the same time saying how he intends to change the law. Apparently a state senator is on board?
The most powerful “oppressed minority” on the planet.
As I chant on twttr, TRAs are in it for the lawsuits! Of course this “horribly oppressed “ sex offender/criminal deviant will sue anyone and everyone! Expect him to eventually claim to be Transgender and demand to be transferred to a women’s prison, so he can continue his crimes against women. If the law and judge cannot see through his preposterously manipulative act, we’ll need to expedite The Terf Revolution. I understand there’s a “Terf Gang”, so we’ll all have to formally join 😆: https://youtu.be/JldkL7CziMc
All those who pretended it was a hoax need to hang their heads in shame. And as for that man calling her a dick for harassing a transgender person - just disgusting.
Never mind the four women and child that were exposed.
They don't matter. They're only bleeders, chest feeders, cervix owners. Their right to privacy doesn't matter.
I'm angered but I am so hopeful that this will radicalise the four women and that girl into being kick ass feminists.
It's sad because I know that girl is about 10/11 and a lot of us who are older unfortunately have stories similar to hers about the first time a man violated us in some way.
His ardent supporters will not retract, instead will double down on a man's rights as a "trans woman" and the discrimination he faces. None of them ever believed it was a hoax, so why would they change course? But this is the showdown California has been waiting for. He says he is meeting with Senator Scott "trans women are women" Weiner, the man successfully pushing bills that keep predators off the sex register.
I was just looking him up. It took ages to find something that actually explained some of these laws he has written instead of "it fixes LGBTQ+ discrimination" (how? why, by making the law just as lax for ALL types of sexual assaults on minors, of course!). He seems to have made a career out of lessening penalties for sex crimes under one guise or another.
Yeah Scott Weiner has a specialty in protecting a certain type of man. And Gavin Newsom signs the bills. Weiner says he is very proud of his law allowing men to be housed in women’s prisons.
I was literally looking for a way to send what I’d written to Mr. Graham ( Email? Carrier pigeon? I’m technologically confused) when I saw this. Anyway, I’ll go ahead & post it here. I apologize for the mention of anything already covered by ripx4nutmeg 😬. (Bravo, nutmeg!!)
Today I read of The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office search for and arrest of Darren Merager, a Registered Sex Offender. The LA Sheriff’s flyer states that Merager “claims to identify as female so he can access women’s locker rooms and showers.” Merager’s birthdate is stated to be 06/08/1969 and he is described as being 6’2”, 200#, “WM” with blue eyes & “BLN” hair. A Forbes Talk article today states “In addition to Merager’s new felony charges of indecent exposure, she is also facing six felony counts of indecent exposure over a separate locker room incident in December 2018. Los Angeles County prosecutors accuse Merager of indecent exposure to women and children in a changing area at a swimming pool in West Hollywood Park.” Article: https://forbestalk.com/news/usa/sex-offending-suspect-claims-transgender-harassment-in-wi-spa-case/
COINCIDENTALLY, “Precious Child”, the man who continuously inserts himself in the Wi Spa Indecent Exposure crime has a new video on FB. It is entitled “Tear Up” and features him in a women’s locker room and women’s sauna, wearing men’s black army boots and a short white fluffy women’s bathrobe, being attacked and kicked by women. He enters the women’s sauna donning an enormous black, sharply pointed, grotesque phallus, with which he terrorizes and assaults the women by beating them in the face. The video ends with the violated women happily piling up on the floor with and cuddling him. Here’s the link:
In this video’s description, it states “What really happened in Wi Spa on June 27th, 2021??? From "DIARY OF AN ANGEL ABUSER", Full length album out August 27th 2021.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS TRACK WILL GO TOWARD MEDICAL EXPENSES FOR THE STABBING VICTIM AT WI SPA ON JULY 3RD 2021. ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDS WILL GO TOWARDS THE MEDICAL EXPENSES OF LGBTQ PROTESTORS INJURED ON JULY 17TH 2021.”
So, he’s an aggressive, misogynist transsexual TRA man collecting money for the violent TRA’s & “Antifa” rioters who harassed, intimidated, threatened and violently assaulted many NUMEROUS people, including women, Press, kids and a group of peaceful religious persons and preachers.
Btw, for rational , interesting coverage of some of the Wi Spa Koreatown TRA’s violence, check out this video of Steve Inman interviewing Tony, a kind, fair Korean man attacked by Antifa TRAs (while protecting a woman and her dog), who successfully defended himself because he’s a badass: https://youtu.be/02TXw4QqFiQ
In my day, we used to say that such people were totally off their trollies....and they'd often end up in secure mental health institutions where they'd be cared for 24/7. Now, such institutions have been sold off and turned into luxury flats for the Differently Insane, those with too much money...I'm amazed that FB has allowed this video on their site...stunned, in fact. It is utterly revolting and this bloke has severe mental health issues, in my humble opinion.
The focus on whether or not this was a hoax (it obviously never was) is less important to me. It suggests a conviction against him will justify those opposed to self ID but a lack of any conviction will pull the rug from under their arguments.
Regardless of outcome, the international newsworthiness of this man flashing these people was not the crime (which happens daily) but the response of those with a duty of care, scared into inaction by ideological capture.
If a complaint is made to management that there's a naked man flashing women and children in any changing room then that complaint MUST be investigated by the owner and safety assured immediately.
If the complaint turns out to have been true or false is entirely irrelevant. We react to the complaint the same way regardless because we know it does definitely happen all of the time and women reacting proportionately must be kept safe even if there have been instances of women inventing scenarios or overreacting to them.
This is the importance of the Staniland question demonstrated. The fact this man claims any right whatsoever to be naked in female space shatters any assurance of whether there can be proactive safety or retroactive justice for females from predators.
How many other cases exactly like this have occurred but not gone viral and gained such close scrutiny?
The man who committed the crime is one of millions in all human existence whose violent and deviant nature can only be safeguarded against, never eradicated. The journalists, businesses, charities and politicians uniting to protect men like him from investigation are a new, more pernicious danger that must be fought and defeated just to ensure minimal safeguarding for women.
Propaganda mills like Slate are probably still going to accuse those women of discriminating against a poor defenseless transwoman. They didn't believe the numerous women who were were alarmed enough to come out of the spa and protest at the time. And just as has been the case for hundreds of years, they accept a man's word as truth and a woman's claims that he harmed her as lying for attention or advantage... calling it the liberal and progressive postition.
But but he was forced into *insert crime of choice here* by transphobes and the state and and and he had no other choice because transphobia! Not sure why they let it escalate for days and lead to such violent clashes when he was known to them with a record like he has.
I don't know how they can keep up with the mental gymnastics it must take. I genuinely can't work out if they realise that they're continually changing their view points or they're oblivious to the contradictions required to support their points.
Thanks for this. One thing that is missing in the Ngo article, and he could have asked the Merenger who seems to want to fight for access to nude areas without indecent exposure charges. The WI Spa has a unisex section. What not go there? The infamous third space some of us have been asking exist in some instances. Somehow, Merenger did not use it. WHY OH WHY?
This is the whole issue. There is a big enough proportion of men that cannot be trusted in women's spaces that all men have a duty to recognise that women have to have their own spaces in which men are not allowed. As I once saw somewhere - "How do you recognise a man who would be safe in a women's changing room? He doesn't want to be in one."
It does make me uncomfortable to regarded as being a potential risk by virtue of my genes, but the reality is that men have allowed other men to be abusers for so long that it is a miracle that any women want anything to do with us at all. We, as men, need to get a grip on this.
Well said and thank you for saying it. I wish more men could see this.
If this stupid movement enables this man to sue women for reporting the crime of indecent exposure and voyeurism, I may just blow a gasket. What the eff.
quite!
I totally read that as "what the terf" lol. Can this be a thing now?
Showing up with black masks and baseball bats to oppose women protesting a sex offender exposing himself to children. A brief detour on what is surely the path to the right side of history
Massive red flag here: "Andy Ngo got to speak to Merager, and was told by him “If you go into an area where you’re expected to be nude, there has to be an indecent exposure exemption.”
Someone needs to check this man's hard drive.
There’s an answer that doesn’t seem to have occurred to him: don’t go into that area. Stay in the area where people with penises are expected to be nude.
Simple but effective.
On the other hand, it wouldn’t turn him on. And that’s what it boils down to.
With regard to a changing room at a swimming pool I don't follow Merager's logic anyway.
I've never been completely nude in the public area of a male swimming pool changing room in my life, let alone walked around naked.
The logic is
- me have penis
- penis good
- wave penis at small girls make penis hard
- must wave penis where I want and saying I cant is literal oppression & must be made illegal.
That's because you're not a flasher.
Could one of the men on here do it? I don't want to know about his hard drive!
This is all priceless, isn't it? A rap sheet a mile long, including for exposure but other crimes like burglary. On the sex offenders list. It just doesn't get any better than this.
When the Guardian celebrated 200 years of journalism, they had a section entitled 'what we got wrong' over the course of those 200 years. Well, they should have as long a list for the past 10 years. What a shower!
I have to comment on this.
Firstly, I complained to YouTube again about the fact that my account had been removed. My account that is 13 years old, that I had paid for movies on. FINALLY it has been given back to me but it makes me really nervous about how easily we can be switched off of someone so chooses.
I have to comment here because I am so angered at Lois Beckett and Sam Levin. They have written about this in the Guardian again and keep framing it as if it is only right wing groups against this utter madness.
They covered what happened to Sarah Everard. It's shocking the lack of empathy that these arseholes have for the women and girl who were unwittingly part of this man's fetish.
We know that Wayne Couzens had previously exposed himself and gotten away with it. Voyeurism is clearly a way of testing the waters to see how much they can get away with before upping the ante.
When I was younger I went to an all girl's school and next to our school was a huge park and a lot of girls walked home through that park. We were always told not to walk alone and actually told not to go there at all because of flasher(S). Now if the flasher is even closer to you in a confined area you're a damn bigot for pointing out the penis in the room.
I'm really angered by this. By this whole thing. When will people see it for what it is? When will women stop pandering to dick and start sticking up for their sisters?
This isn't transphobic. This is a very real and warranted fear of men who's conviction rate is already so bloody damn low and now they're being given extra protection by using trans laws that are so blatantly riddled with loopholes for men to terrorise women.
The stats for "women" committing crimes of a sexual nature must have spiked considering the amount of dick pandering that's going on.
NOT OUR CRIMES!!
Yes to everything you write. It is a sad fact that women are the only group who get no redress when complaining of hate speech, harassment (sexual or otherwise) and death threats
It seems the bloody Guardian does not see the connection between the low conviction rate and the lighter and lighter sentencing for violent assault, and the rising amount of misogynists abusing woolly transgender laws. They also wring their hands at 'rape culture' in schools and universities, while cheering for mixed toilet facilities there, not seeing this change as a new opportunity for predators.
Excellent post.
I spoke with Lois Beckett for over an hour after the second protest (I attended both and took stills and video), and she ignored every point I made. Her reporting is so blatantly biased that, as a former journalist, I am embarrassed for her. She was just this side of nasty to me.
Yes! Every word!
He’s not only claiming he’s a victim of “transphobic harrasment” not only from the several women who noticed him flashing his erection, but also from “the state”.
While at the same time saying how he intends to change the law. Apparently a state senator is on board?
The most powerful “oppressed minority” on the planet.
As I chant on twttr, TRAs are in it for the lawsuits! Of course this “horribly oppressed “ sex offender/criminal deviant will sue anyone and everyone! Expect him to eventually claim to be Transgender and demand to be transferred to a women’s prison, so he can continue his crimes against women. If the law and judge cannot see through his preposterously manipulative act, we’ll need to expedite The Terf Revolution. I understand there’s a “Terf Gang”, so we’ll all have to formally join 😆: https://youtu.be/JldkL7CziMc
All those who pretended it was a hoax need to hang their heads in shame. And as for that man calling her a dick for harassing a transgender person - just disgusting.
They absolutely should.
All about the dick.
Never mind the four women and child that were exposed.
They don't matter. They're only bleeders, chest feeders, cervix owners. Their right to privacy doesn't matter.
I'm angered but I am so hopeful that this will radicalise the four women and that girl into being kick ass feminists.
It's sad because I know that girl is about 10/11 and a lot of us who are older unfortunately have stories similar to hers about the first time a man violated us in some way.
His ardent supporters will not retract, instead will double down on a man's rights as a "trans woman" and the discrimination he faces. None of them ever believed it was a hoax, so why would they change course? But this is the showdown California has been waiting for. He says he is meeting with Senator Scott "trans women are women" Weiner, the man successfully pushing bills that keep predators off the sex register.
I was just looking him up. It took ages to find something that actually explained some of these laws he has written instead of "it fixes LGBTQ+ discrimination" (how? why, by making the law just as lax for ALL types of sexual assaults on minors, of course!). He seems to have made a career out of lessening penalties for sex crimes under one guise or another.
Yeah Scott Weiner has a specialty in protecting a certain type of man. And Gavin Newsom signs the bills. Weiner says he is very proud of his law allowing men to be housed in women’s prisons.
I was literally looking for a way to send what I’d written to Mr. Graham ( Email? Carrier pigeon? I’m technologically confused) when I saw this. Anyway, I’ll go ahead & post it here. I apologize for the mention of anything already covered by ripx4nutmeg 😬. (Bravo, nutmeg!!)
Today I read of The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office search for and arrest of Darren Merager, a Registered Sex Offender. The LA Sheriff’s flyer states that Merager “claims to identify as female so he can access women’s locker rooms and showers.” Merager’s birthdate is stated to be 06/08/1969 and he is described as being 6’2”, 200#, “WM” with blue eyes & “BLN” hair. A Forbes Talk article today states “In addition to Merager’s new felony charges of indecent exposure, she is also facing six felony counts of indecent exposure over a separate locker room incident in December 2018. Los Angeles County prosecutors accuse Merager of indecent exposure to women and children in a changing area at a swimming pool in West Hollywood Park.” Article: https://forbestalk.com/news/usa/sex-offending-suspect-claims-transgender-harassment-in-wi-spa-case/
COINCIDENTALLY, “Precious Child”, the man who continuously inserts himself in the Wi Spa Indecent Exposure crime has a new video on FB. It is entitled “Tear Up” and features him in a women’s locker room and women’s sauna, wearing men’s black army boots and a short white fluffy women’s bathrobe, being attacked and kicked by women. He enters the women’s sauna donning an enormous black, sharply pointed, grotesque phallus, with which he terrorizes and assaults the women by beating them in the face. The video ends with the violated women happily piling up on the floor with and cuddling him. Here’s the link:
https://fb.watch/7MUY-aDkTb/
In this video’s description, it states “What really happened in Wi Spa on June 27th, 2021??? From "DIARY OF AN ANGEL ABUSER", Full length album out August 27th 2021.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS TRACK WILL GO TOWARD MEDICAL EXPENSES FOR THE STABBING VICTIM AT WI SPA ON JULY 3RD 2021. ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDS WILL GO TOWARDS THE MEDICAL EXPENSES OF LGBTQ PROTESTORS INJURED ON JULY 17TH 2021.”
So, he’s an aggressive, misogynist transsexual TRA man collecting money for the violent TRA’s & “Antifa” rioters who harassed, intimidated, threatened and violently assaulted many NUMEROUS people, including women, Press, kids and a group of peaceful religious persons and preachers.
Btw, for rational , interesting coverage of some of the Wi Spa Koreatown TRA’s violence, check out this video of Steve Inman interviewing Tony, a kind, fair Korean man attacked by Antifa TRAs (while protecting a woman and her dog), who successfully defended himself because he’s a badass: https://youtu.be/02TXw4QqFiQ
In my day, we used to say that such people were totally off their trollies....and they'd often end up in secure mental health institutions where they'd be cared for 24/7. Now, such institutions have been sold off and turned into luxury flats for the Differently Insane, those with too much money...I'm amazed that FB has allowed this video on their site...stunned, in fact. It is utterly revolting and this bloke has severe mental health issues, in my humble opinion.
Tony is a great guy!
I love the intro, 'I don't know if it's a girl or guy, I don't give a shit.'
The focus on whether or not this was a hoax (it obviously never was) is less important to me. It suggests a conviction against him will justify those opposed to self ID but a lack of any conviction will pull the rug from under their arguments.
Regardless of outcome, the international newsworthiness of this man flashing these people was not the crime (which happens daily) but the response of those with a duty of care, scared into inaction by ideological capture.
If a complaint is made to management that there's a naked man flashing women and children in any changing room then that complaint MUST be investigated by the owner and safety assured immediately.
If the complaint turns out to have been true or false is entirely irrelevant. We react to the complaint the same way regardless because we know it does definitely happen all of the time and women reacting proportionately must be kept safe even if there have been instances of women inventing scenarios or overreacting to them.
This is the importance of the Staniland question demonstrated. The fact this man claims any right whatsoever to be naked in female space shatters any assurance of whether there can be proactive safety or retroactive justice for females from predators.
How many other cases exactly like this have occurred but not gone viral and gained such close scrutiny?
The man who committed the crime is one of millions in all human existence whose violent and deviant nature can only be safeguarded against, never eradicated. The journalists, businesses, charities and politicians uniting to protect men like him from investigation are a new, more pernicious danger that must be fought and defeated just to ensure minimal safeguarding for women.
Propaganda mills like Slate are probably still going to accuse those women of discriminating against a poor defenseless transwoman. They didn't believe the numerous women who were were alarmed enough to come out of the spa and protest at the time. And just as has been the case for hundreds of years, they accept a man's word as truth and a woman's claims that he harmed her as lying for attention or advantage... calling it the liberal and progressive postition.
Shocked, aren't we? And although it could be somebody with the same (uncommon) name, his crimes may not be limited to sexual offenses: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jeffrey-gundlach-art-heist-sentencing-20140121-story.html
But but he was forced into *insert crime of choice here* by transphobes and the state and and and he had no other choice because transphobia! Not sure why they let it escalate for days and lead to such violent clashes when he was known to them with a record like he has.
Interesting, even the age seems right
it is him, I think
But, but, but...this doesn't happen.
It will have unhappened again as soon as they decide he was never really trans...
See also: "everyone is who they say they are"
Unless it suits a purpose.
I don't know how they can keep up with the mental gymnastics it must take. I genuinely can't work out if they realise that they're continually changing their view points or they're oblivious to the contradictions required to support their points.
Thanks for this. One thing that is missing in the Ngo article, and he could have asked the Merenger who seems to want to fight for access to nude areas without indecent exposure charges. The WI Spa has a unisex section. What not go there? The infamous third space some of us have been asking exist in some instances. Somehow, Merenger did not use it. WHY OH WHY?
Good point
Merager, not Merenger. Am too upset to spellcheck.