Stop the world! Justice Samuel Alito wants to get off

[marmar]

Stop the world! Justice Samuel Alito wants to get off | Opinion
Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press

Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 21, 2020 | Updated 12:12 p.m. ET June 21, 2020


(Detroit Free Press) U.S. Supreme Court watchers were gobsmacked last week when Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts joined their liberal colleagues in ruling that a 1964 law barring discrimination "because of sex" protects employees from being fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Those who had been counting on the court's conservative majority to make America straight again were aghast. What had possessed Roberts, who dissented from the court's landmark 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage, and Gorsuch, the first justice nominated by Donald Trump, to join the Rainbow Brigade?

It's an important question, to which I'll return by and by.

But after reading the dissenting opinions Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh filed in this week's employment discrimination blockbuster, I have a different question:

Why do old men get so freaked out about public restrooms? ............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2020/06/21/supreme-courts-transgender-lgbt/3206244001/

[Squinch]

1. " Why do old men get so freaked out about public restrooms?" Excellent, but hilarious, question!

[RainCaster]

2. Why do old men get so freaked out about public restrooms when they wear diapers? )

DFT being the Chief Diaper Dude.

[dawg day]

3. I don't mean to be all TMI--

But old men with prostate trouble (which most old men have) don't usually have an impressive stream of pee that macho men would be proud of.

It's start and stop, dribble and drip.

For women, this isn't a problem, because we have our own private stalls, and can take however much time we need, LOL.

But for an already insecure fellow like Judge Alito seems to be, standing at a urinal certain that all the macho men around you are laughing at your weak stream would make you hate public restrooms.

[erronis]

4. I think you are reading too much into this. Yeah, our squirts aren't what they used to be. I bet

it's Alito's colostomy bag or perhaps his own diaper that needs changing regularly. Would explain the grimaces on his and Thomas's and ex-grimace on Scalia's faces.

Besides, being an older "gent", I don't mind finding a free stall to have a bit of privacy myself. I first check to see if one of the adjoining stalls is occupied by a (r)epuglicon or a holier-than-thou xian. Don't want to catch any diseases from those types.

[dawg day]

9. You're right-- the real danger is some holy Trumper who wants to testify-

[marie999]

6. My husband had a problem peeing.

His doctor gave him a prescription of Tamsulosin. Now it sounds like we are at Niagra Falls. Check it out.

[lagomorph777]

11. Saw Palmetto.

No doc needed.

[flibbitygiblets]

5. Well, if they're like a lot of Repukes, it's a case of projection

It's disturbingly easy-- one could even say it's a compulsion--for their minds to drift to a place where public restrooms are little more than preying grounds for dirty pervs attacking helpless women and little girls.

Needless to say, these horrors happen primarily in the hearts and minds of those who profess to protect us. And by the way, women and children perfected the bathroom-buddy system decades ago. So kindly fuck off, and stop discriminating against innocent people who don't fit your dogmatic ideology.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. I can only answer for this old man

I get freaked out by public restrooms because they're so often disgusting and because the other old men in line in front of me take so damned long at the urinals.

[Dan]

10. Normally, my thoughts on using a public restroom is

Get in, get out.

Don’t think or care about what anyone else is doing....which would seem strange to me.

And as long as someone doesn’t piss on my feet - we’re good.