Pearl Jam Cancels 4/20 Raleigh, NC Concert in Opposition to HB2; Official Band Statement

It also has something to do with artists being non-conformists. A non-conformist will tend to reject traditional ideas about social norms and forms of expression. Conservatism seeks to preserve and maintain traditional social norms and forms of expression.

somebodyelsessky2020 said:

Sad thing is...there are perverts who dress up like women and go into the womens bathrooms just to sneak a peak and maybe even thinking of attempting possibly much worse. They are not lgbt or whatever, they are psychos. So until someone comes up with a better solution, this ban might make a tiny bit of sense. Obviously something must have been happening somewhere for them to even consider making it a law. I dunno ??

Bottom line is some people SUCK and as long as this earth spins some people will always SUCK.

None of us will ever change the world in ridding it of people who suck.

If you have a penis...piss with the men. If you have a vagina...piss with the men or the women. Men will piss with any gender...lol

No explaining away this law, sorry. It's discriminatory bullshit. What's happening is people can't tolerate people who they perceive as remarkably different from themselves. Nobody has to wear a disguise to walk into the opposite gender's restroom and be a fucking perv. And not every weirdo out there is exclusively perving on the opposite sex either.

somebodyelsessky2020 said:

Sad thing is...there are perverts who dress up like women and go into the womens bathrooms just to sneak a peak and maybe even thinking of attempting possibly much worse. They are not lgbt or whatever, they are psychos.

proof?

Merkin Baller said:

aaaaaannnnnnd the Fonze sticks the landing.

Yeah, kinda time to let this one die.

so? the rules are written pretty clearly.

ComeToTX said:

so? the rules are written pretty clearly.

I asked for a refund because I wasn't taking a whole week off for just one show (Columbia). I had planned to go to both Raleigh and Columbia until they canceled on their fans in Raleigh. I didn't expect to get a refund but at least wanted to make a point (one that will not get a second read I know) that they can cancel on 15,000 people they sold tickets to, but somehow still think that their ticket rules still apply. Those who set the rules control the rules.

Having attended both Hampton and Columbia, am I remembering correctly that Eddie never gave his normal kudos to Jeff and Stone? Could it be that J&S forced the Raleigh cancellation? It doesn't matter at this point, but Jeff obviously wrote the letter that was posted to the site.

CF31525 said:

Having attended both Hampton and Columbia, am I remembering correctly that Eddie never gave his normal kudos to Jeff and Stone? Could it be that J&S forced the Raleigh cancellation? It doesn't matter at this point, but Jeff obviously wrote the letter that was posted to the site.

I would doubt this very much.

I can see this morphing into one of those "It's Stone's Fault" threads with a twist.

being from Denmark and knowing that throughout the years we have adopted a lot of stupid political ideas from USA ( cutbacks on social benefits, health insurances and involving in wars for the wrong reasons and so on ) I certainly hope this law is one that our politicians thinks is so stupid it has to be a joke .... first thing comes to mind: who is checkking ? read a story about a transgender who "broke" the law by going to the ladies room, and i don,t know again, but in denmark female bathrooms have stalls so is there a guard checkking before entering ?
I love you guys but you really have to stand up against stupid rightwing politicians who are afraid of anything that they can't put in their small box and label as "normal".