How would you feel about your child using this bathroom? pic.twitter.com/W9HSqDUzCx
— Kaya Jones (@KayaJones) January 6, 2019
Kaya Jones, formerly of the Pussycat Dolls (the inescapable mid-2000s girl group, who gave “Buttons” a whole new definition) proved over the weekend that it isn’t just her music career that’s stuck in the 00s. The singer, who a long history of right-wing trolling, has been an outspoken advocate of Donald Trump, even holding membership in the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, and has been a regular guest on Fox news, levelled up her ignorance when she posted a video on Saturday about her “opinions” on gender-neutral washrooms:
How would you feel about your child using this bathroom? pic.twitter.com/W9HSqDUzCx
— Kaya Jones (@KayaJones) January 6, 2019
Clearly, an attempt to fuel a discussion that’s been at the centre of an intense partisan,debate. Thankfully, the Internet was ready with well-deserved criticisms:
i feel like we should quit demonizing trans and nb ppl and start recognizing them as victims of society the bathrooms dont have stalls its a single bathroom you asshat you and your husband and your daughter and son all use the same bathroom so why is this different https://t.co/Rn6Bo8S4Ys
— dj princess of powa (@posiewosie) January 7, 2019
THE TOILET IN MY HOME IS GENDER NEUTRAL TOO, HELP
— Audrey Porne (@AudreyPorne) January 6, 2019
1. Gender is a social construct
2. Why are you so concerned about other people’s genitalia??
3. If you’re trying to saying you’re some kind of warrior for women, I would like to decline your attempt at leadership on behalf of feminists everywhere.— Anna M (@AnnaM11978685) January 6, 2019
Jones, however, doubled down in response to the heat her video received. She proclaimed herself to be a “true warrior for [her] gender” because “I don’t want men in my bathroom. It makes me very uncomfortable” making it crystal clear that she has an extremely narrow conception of who does and doesn’t belong to the very gender she claims to supposedly be a warrior for.
I am a true warrior for my gender. I don’t want anyone telling me as a woman who can come into my bathroom. I don’t want men in my bathroom. It makes me very uncomfortable.
— Kaya Jones (@KayaJones) January 6, 2019
Why is it controversial to say I don’t think women and men should share a public bathroom. Just curious. And how did we go from separate toilets 🚽 to shared ones.
— Kaya Jones (@KayaJones) January 6, 2019
1. Gender is a social construct
2. Why are you so concerned about other people’s genitalia??
3. If you’re trying to saying you’re some kind of warrior for women, I would like to decline your attempt at leadership on behalf of feminists everywhere.— Anna M (@AnnaM11978685) January 6, 2019
I'm a woman, I don't want haters in my bathroom, you make me very uncomfortable
— Anne Parker (@NMP_never) January 6, 2019
No you are a halfbaked “celebrity” who like other failures goes right wing.
— Getting High in Dubai (@HighinGet) January 6, 2019
Plenty of places have non gender specific bathrooms, especially here in Europe. Maybe you’d feel safer not leaving your house. At all. Ever. Just stay at home locked in your gender specific safe place 🙏
— cecily hania buck-mullins (@cecilyhania) January 6, 2019
— Addiction is pain (@CuredTheAddict) January 7, 2019
This is far from the first time that the singer’s ignorance has been on display, having courted similar outrage in August of last year after making claims that immigrant children detained at the border were in reality members of international crime gang MS-13:
*brown teenage boys sitting in a group* hmm yes looks like violent gang members to me
you’re really just not even trying to hide the racism now huh
— laura lux (@DarthLux) June 21, 2018
We’re with Nicole on this one.
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