Cisgender Radiators Outrage

[fender62]

when reading this article i was thinking is this story made up, are there really people like the guy in the article out there in the real world, how does he manage in public spaces.. petrified of men..really or his personal space...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10104329/College-student-mocked-complaining-cisgender-men-installed-radiators-room.html

[AuntPG]

I wonder if abused women at a shelter would have the same opinion if men were allowed into their rooms alone to fit radiators? Some of these students may have suffered physical or sexual abuse at the hands of men, its not a regular college. The reference to cis-gender (male and female) is unfortunate, but probably picked up on by the DM and made into the main issue because it provokes a response and more 'clicks' on their site. Probably the main issue was some students were uncomfortable to have males in their room, which I can understand if they had been abused in the past.

[Jackdaw33]

The simplest solution to this poor boy's problems would have been to vacate the room whilst the workmen were in, but that's probably too comlicated for the 'woke' mind.

[ToraToraTora]

cis gender! Perlease!

[ToraToraTora]

"cis gender" is not ever needed as a prefix. world's gone bonkers.

[WordyGurdy]

The word 'woke' used to denigrate civil behaviour, concern for others etc. The sort of concern that can help to prevent crime. Of course, none of you lot are actually that concerned about crime or "damn savages" - it simply gives you some bonus bogeymen.

[douglas9401]

Always my first thought when heating engineers call.

"What crime are these dastardly villains about to perpetrate?" I ask no-one.

[aelmpvw]

don't you just hate it when you book a plumber and he/she turns out to be cisgender . . .

[jno]

what on earth is the point of setting up a "safe space" if you then allow in just the people who make the residents most nervous? What's safe about that?

I've not been in a women's refuge but do they allow men to come and go without checking them out? I would have thought that was counterproductive.

[youngmafbog]

I dont know about the USA, but in this country they are generally vetted. At least to DBS.

[roadman]

i wonder if the person asked these installers if they identified as cis male or if they assumed they identified as cis male

also its not very woke to victimise someone just because of how they identify if that is cis male or trans male or whatever why is it one rule for one one for another? i do think if i said no that person is not allowed to install my radiator because they identify as transsexual all hell would break lose

[roadman]

"what on earth is the point of setting up a "safe space" if you then allow in just the people who make the residents most nervous?"

would the transsexual radiator installer please stand up so we can identify you and send you into the space safe to do the work because other contractual workers cause too much of a threat lol how ridiculous

[jno]

do you live in a safe space, roadman?

[roadman]

the harsh reality is the world isnt specifically a safe space do we find anther planet or make do and live our best lives i know what id rather do

[jno]

and yet what you'd rather do is not what someeone else would rather do. Imagine.

[naomi24]

Safe space or not everyone has to live in the real world. Plumbers install radiators. That's a fact of life.

[Untitled]

"I would take umbrage I’d somebody referred to me as a cis gender man when just man is perfectly adequate…and normal."

but you are a cisgender man

[pixie374]

They did give them notice, quite rightly, in the circumstances, so they could leave their rooms if they preferred. Not much else to say.

[naomi24]

Untitled, // but you are a cisgender man //

No he isn't. That's a label people like you have stuck on him. He, and I, have decided to reject other people's assessments and impositions and take advantage of the modern fad for self-identifying. We've decided to identify as 'normal'.

[roadman]

They would be moaning if they dud not have heating for the winter because the few transsexual plumbers are all booked up for the winter you cant have things both ways

Someone coming into a building for contractual purposes IE to work on a radiator is not a threat to someones gender identity or themselves

[roadman]

Jno i respect that not everyones ideal is my ideal and that just is what it is unfortunately