The Great Bathroom Panic is among the saddest and most pathetic failures of American democracy in all of 2015. A few weeks ago, residents in Houston, the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States, voted against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). Had it passed, the ballot initiative would have outlawed discrimination based on an individual's sexual orientation and gender identity. Thus, Houston falls embarrassingly behind the Lone Star state's other major cities (Austin, Dallas, San Antonio) in upholding prejudice by way of good old fashioned fear. You've probably seen the photo of the elderly man holding the picket sign: "NO MEN IN WOMEN'S BATHROOMS."

Well, that sign worked, and Texans are now worse off because of it.

Last night, in two minutes and 35 seconds, SNL's resident young person Pete Davidson explained the flaw in that famous sign's logic:

"The theory is that men, in their relentless quest to watch women go to the bathroom, are going through years of hormones, surgery, changing their name, their wardrobe, coming out to their family, all for that BIG payoff of peeing in a room without urinals. What is this fantasy that they think is going on in there? There's no shirtless pillow fights; there's no disco ball!"

For his part, Texas Governor Greg Abbott could not have been more thrilled that the anti-discrimination ordinance failed to pass. Put another way, Abbott was glad that a form of discrimination in his state's largest city, the fourth largest city in the country, will live on.

John Hendrickson Deputy Editor John Hendrickson is the Deputy Editor of Esquire.com, where he oversees the site's 24/7 news operation as well as all politics coverage.

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