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Walmart fired Dani Davis, a 6'4" cisgender woman, after a man who mistook her for transgender verbally threatened her in a women’s restroom at a Florida store.

Davis, visibly shaken, reported the March 14 incident to her immediate supervisor but was fired for not informing salaried management, allegedly creating a “security risk.”

Davis called the firing discriminatory. After viral backlash, Walmart offered to reinstate her with back pay.

Davis, a longtime employee, is uncertain about returning, citing fears of a hostile work environment.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Why a man was in women's restroom?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

He was inspecting it, like trump inspected the changing rooms of miss teen usa.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I need to go out Google searching what is a cisgender and... The world if fcked up

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

so what the fuck. stop fucking with people. calm your shit before your desire to have a panic attack bleeds out and infects others.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago

Seems like a slam dunk lawsuit. I hope she wins.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
  1. I used to work for Wal-Mart, this doesn't surprise me. They actually tried to have me written up for using a women's room as a transgender woman and decided not to only because I pointed out that that would be discrimination under the law (Trump wasn't president at the time) My days with the company were pretty much numbered after that. They're not looking for workers, they're looking for slaves; anyone who thinks they have rights aren't slaves.

  2. Isn't it obvious? The reason they want to criminalize transpeople, someone who's already an "invisible minority" is because any "Woke" behavior can be classified as "Trans" behavior... And anything the state doesn't like can be classified as "Woke", the Nazis actually did this by banning the teaching of any science and philosophy that was deemed to be too Jewish... Which was a net positive for the world for the sole reason of this meaning that Hitler never had the atomic bomb (He could have, but then he called the science behind it "Jewish Superstition masquerading as science." and ordered it halted)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i worked at that W place and i did 3rd shift maintenance. cleaning, buffing floors, bathrooms. as the person cleaning the shitters you block the entrance. that never stopped a kentucky boy psycho with a gigantic knife. i quit the job after i encountered that trash fucker. just not a chill place to work. the general public are awful.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

Redneck fuck should a been arrested for being in the ladies room to begin with. Pervert

[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It bares repeating, transphobia hurts cisgender people and transgender people.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Hate hurts all people.

But we are such a smart species we barely try to move past it, sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is it really worth drawing significant attention to? It may feel nice as a gotcha but I really feel the emphasis should be that trans rights are worth protecting for their own sake

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's the same as "the patriarchy hurts men too". It is worth pointing out in the sense that if some people aren't free then no-one is free, but it also feels like we shouldn't have to and we take the focus away from the ones that are most hurt.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"But you can always tell! They're so obvious!"

Not a shock that Rural Redneck Inc. has dipshits for managers, as the owners are some of the most unethical monsters ever bred in the capitalist culture of America.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"As of 2024, the Adolph Coors Foundation is the only one of the three organizations still publicly disclosing support for the conservative group."

The fucking WHAT Coors Foundation?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Coors was founded by a man named Adolph Coors, long before that name became problematic due to its association with a terrible carbonated liquid.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 month ago (3 children)

“The voice was much louder than simply someone yelling in from the door. This man was fully IN the restroom, yelling something about” transgender women, Davis wrote.

Davis said the man yelled he was going to “beat" them and was going to “protect his wife/girlfriend from them” while his wife or girlfriend was pleading with him to stop and leave before he got into trouble.

Davis wrote she was scared and froze, not knowing if the man was going to physically attack her.

So to protect cis women, he is threatening and scaring cis women.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago

Gotta protect women from “men” entering the women’s washroom, by entering the women’s washroom. Love it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I find it fascinating that guys like this usually have a wife/girlfriend who somehow excuses their behavior like WTF is in their head? Are they stupid or just as shitty as the person they're following around?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Sometimes yes, sometimes they are victims of emotional abuse and codependence. And of course plenty of physical abuse with the type of man who would follow a woman into a bathroom to threaten violence.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

I think it can be a (bad) cultural thing. When I told my mom I worried my cousin's new husband was abusive, my mom told me he was "a regular Kentucky man. They're just like that."

(My other cousin confirmed her sister's new husband was an abusive dick, but sister refused to leave him. Other cousin and I both went out of state for college, which helps break indoctrination. We were back in town for a funeral.)

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago

What a total douche. Also, how does Walmart come to the conclusion that firing this woman was for the best?

Like they tried to save face and make up for it, but it was too little too late.

Walmart has been and will always be garbage.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

in other words, this is a reason for the workers to unionize.

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