Ms. Mendieta was among the Latino outreach team members who she said were expected to stay in a run-down house in Chicago in March 2016. When she arrived, she said she was told she was supposed to sleep in a room with three men she did not know.
“I was shaking with fear,’’ she said. “Literally, I remember thinking to myself, ‘What am I going to do?’” She said she reported the incident to Mr. Pelletier.
Why is the left both the quickest to insinuate that men in the same bedroom as women are bound to rape them, while acting the most indignant at the insinuation about transwomen in bathrooms? If the penis is not the basis for the narrative that all men are "potential rapists," what is?
When I went to Tokyo, I didn't stay at a private room. I stayed at a 12-bed room. You were each assigned your own bed, and there were security cameras between, but not pointed at, the beds. That way, you could sleep in privacy, but if you went over to someone else's bed uninvited, staff would know. That alone would be enough a deterrent even if your conscience alone were not. Sounds like a better solution than having to build some bedrooms for men, others for women, and then having to turn away several potential customers because all the ones you get one particular week happen to be of the same sex.
We sex-segregate dorms at public universities, and the barracks in the military, but that's to deter even the most consensual sex as much as rape, as pregnancies in those contexts have worse implications than outside it. And perhaps that's pushing it as it is.
Besides, if one insinuated that, sans such security cameras, gay men would rape other men, that'd be considered homophobic. How is saying the same about straight men not misandrous?
