This is a take on censorship I hadn't really thought about before
Actually while I'm sharing stuff from Margaret Killjoy, this recent essay, Anarchism and Violence: A Tale of Two Bombers introduced me to historical figure Émile Henry, whose defense of his bombing a Paris cafe gave me Disco Elysium deja vu. People who have played the game all the way through will see something familiar in his statement "there are no innocent among the bourgeoisie". I'd be surprised if Ravachol, the name of another anarchist whose death he sought to avenge, was not the direct inspiration for the game's city of Revachol.
They're making girls that need to pee multiple times a day and that's why they've started installing toilets in women's restrooms
before trans people, women's restrooms were just empty and women would just stand there for no reason
In the United States, separated "women's rooms" actually came before the widespread adoption of indoor plumbing
"But at first, these lounges for women did not include a toilet component, says Terry Kogan, a law professor at the University of Utah. Kogan has worked on guidelines for gender-neutral bathrooms and is an expert on the legal and cultural norms that mandate the segregation of public restrooms by sex.
'They were designed like living rooms—like parlors—as spaces to protect virtue.'
'Interestingly, ornate lounges for women preceded public restrooms by several decades,' Kogan explained, noting that there were parlors for women in public buildings many years prior to when most of America had indoor plumbing. In other words, gender separation and protecting women’s virtue was initially the justification for these spaces, and the toilet came later."
— "The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge" by Elizabeth Yuko, Bloomberg
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