#bag policies

[moontyger]

Been struggling all day with the fact that a local arena changed their bag policy after I already bought tickets and the new allowed size is so small I literally could not find even a single purse small enough for sale. Basically, they've banned purses without outright saying that. (I guess you could make your own the right size, but I'd have needed more notice than they gave me of the change.)

And it's such BS and honestly feels like gender discrimination. Why is it that it is mostly only one gender who carries bags? Because that gender has clothing that doesn't have real pockets, of course. (This policy was 100% designed by a man.) So it definitely hits anyone wearing women's clothing much harder and honestly says to me that they want to ban women without saying that (or force us to attend with a man or at least someone wearing men's pants to carry our stuff for us). (Also, seriously, men can fit more in their pants pockets than I can fit in a 4x6x2in bag if I could somehow find one, but that's apparently fine?)

In the end, I've purchased a utility kilt and hopefully the pockets fit the stuff I need to carry. (In addition to the stuff everyone needs, I also need an inhaler which caused me so many issues for basically my whole life because it never fits in women's pants. But I have been having horrible asthma the past 2 weeks because pollen is so high, so I definitely cannot do without it. The policy does have an exception for "medical bags," but who knows WTF that means? I will add to "designed by a man" "who doesn't have to carry any medication or medical devices with him and thinks those of us who do should just stay home.")

Really I am just so angry about this.

[doomdoomofdoom]

Kamala Harris does want "transgender surgery on illegal aliens that are in prison", btw.

So since Trumpists are getting mad enough about the jokes to actually cite their sources, I thought I'd put the source out into my left extremist commie faggot echo chamber, too.

The claim originates from an ACLU questionnaire she filled out for her 2020 presidential candidacy, specifically this section:

She wasn't given a new questionnaire for 2024, and has stated that while her policy on some things may have changed, her values had not. (This most likely means she moved more to the center to appease larger demographics and cut corners to reach compromises. The basic politician stuff.)

It boils down to this: If you're in prison, whether for "illegal" immigration or other crimes, you rely on the state to provide you with necessary amenities, like food and health care. Her argument isn't "hell yeah everyone in prison should get sex changes for free". It's "gender affirming surgery is a necessary medical procedure. If you are in the states care while this becomes necessary, the state should provide it." If you're outraged by your tax money being used on this, consider the massive amount of people being incarcerated in for-profit prisons, on your dime. Then ask yourself if maybe a prison reform might be in order.

Worth noting: In 2015, while Attorney General, Kamala Harris actually argued against providing gender-affirming surgery to an incarcerated trans woman, claiming that HRT and psychotherapy were sufficiently covering her medical needs. She has since obviously changed her stance and assumed responsibility. (I would like to take this moment to remind my fellow left extremist commie faggots that "willingness to learn and rethink your views" is infinitely more valuable than "perfect from the start and unwilling to listen to anyone")

Also found in the source: This image of Kamala Harris participating in the 2019 San Francisco Pride Parade, wearing what I believe to be a sequin rainbow embroidered denim jacket.

I encourage you to read the provided CNN article and the answers to the ACLU questionnaire, as they give great insight into her values.

TLDR: Based.

[ot3]

voting a dem into the presidential office is harm reduction in the same way that having 3rd degree burns over every part of your body except for your pinky finger is technically a reduced amount of harm from having 3rd degree burns everywhere. it's technically true that one involves less damage but in either circumstances the consequences are more or less the same

[dnpbeats]

pls help do i wear a full ranch costume to tit 😭😭😭 like dress as a bottle of ranch 😭😭😭😭 i am going alone so fear it will be a little much lmao but also NO ONE has done it and i feel it could be camp

ANON PLS LMAOOO PLEASE DO IT you can always bring a change of clothes/wear something under it and take it off if you don’t wanna wear it the whole time!

[lesbinewren]

this is by no means a new or original observation but it does still kind of blow my mind how many peoples politics are almost solely governed by what inconveniences them personally. "but if we raise minimum wage fast food will cost more" "but charging for plastic bags is annoying" "but universal health care and better funding for schools would raise taxes" "but i dont want to give up my giant gas guzzler" like its all so purely about them with no sense of a greater good or helping other people. blows my mind

[hillbilly---man]

"oh wow, it's going to be dangerously hot in Nashville for the pride festival this weekend. I sure hope the organizers have taken that into consideration for their planning!"

Festival organizers: "surprise! We just changed the bag policy so you can't bring anything bigger than a tote bag, and it's gotta be clear so the sun beats down directly onto your water bottles. Good luck y'all! 🤞"

[knaveofmogadore]

So like, imagine this. It's the first big family reunion after COVID restrictions let up, your family took a few years to all get vaccinated, ect. Your kid is 6, so they weren't old enough to take to the last one, this is the first time they're meeting some of these more distant relatives. So you introduce them to Uncle Mike, and you say "This is Uncle Mike. He thinks you're so small and delicious, and that it'd be so easy to pick you up and throw you at the nearest wall and break all your bones." If that 6 year old then power kicks uncle Mike in the nuts and runs away screaming, whose fault is that?

So this post is about Doctor Who. The patron unknowable Eldritch entity of your country has just spent an entire afternoon telling you that the universe is full of things that are stronger and bigger than you, and a lot of them will happily blenderize your planet for a bit of rocket fuel, or eat all of you for a big Sunday brunch. And he's letting that ship full of slavers happily fly away to tell the entire galaxy about your tiny planet's existence. You are an animal, your empathy and reason only extends to the boundaries of what you can understand, and the Doctor has just told you that the vast majority of the galaxy sees you as prey. Me, personally? I'm with Harriet, I wouldn't stand a chance in that situation, I'd 100% take that shot.

All I'm saying is that if the Doctor wanted to foster empathy, they probably shouldn't have started with enthusiastically explaining how cleverly the aliens were going to coerce them into slavery, especially not to a woman who grew up in Britain as it rebuilt itself from the blitz in a post-nazi Europe

[starscelly]

td garden bag policy trying to get poor innocent local away fans jumped on the t (not clickbait) (true)

[sydmarch]

ok so this doesn't bode well for the website being up to date lmao

[baked-bread]

i think companies should start letting me test new policies before enforcing them. if i don’t make it a full 8 hours of work without crying, scrap the policy. i will be so good at improving employee morale

[clowningcrows]

finally got a job but i had my make my name tag and i gave them my deadname so i just got to use stickers to agonizingly place each letter of my deadname down as i’m actively getting called it and she/her the entire time

[singlethread]

Figuring out my outfit for seeing Sabrina on opening night. God I wish I could justify the heels bc it’s so Sabrina but I guess my white adidas will have to do 😭

[kakyogay]

first day of school and I'm already tired

[justfriendsbestthings]

Spent my bank holiday being super productive lmao

[energyprison]

YAYYYYY SOMEONE LEFT A REVIEW ABOUT MEEE

[miketownsends]

just saw a Jays fan get turned away at security completely baffled bc she couldn’t bring her (large, not-clear) purse in lmaooooo

“it’s my purse! it’s just my purse!”

welcome to the US babes we’ve got mass shootings here sorry!