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  • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 2007 5:00 PM

Phyllis Schlafly Was Right!!!

Submitted by Bitch_PhD

Edited by erin_broadley



Remember the old story about Phyllis Schlafly opposing the Equal Rights Amendment because it would mean that men and women would have to share public restrooms?

At the time, the argument was that this was silly and wouldn't happen. Maybe now we can move on to a better argument--it's silly and no one cares.

This fall, the single-stall bathrooms on American University's campus are getting a name change. In the next month and a half, signs that once designated the toilet for men or women will be replaced with the more general term "restroom."

The change is more than cosmetic. It's part of a movement on university campuses that recognizes that not everyone fits neatly under the labels of male and female, and that some students or staff may feel uncomfortable using a men's or women's restroom. To accommodate them, an increasing number of colleges and universities are designating bathrooms as gender-neutral.


As then, so shall it always be, of course: there are people getting all worked up about this. Presumably these people also have "his" and "her" separate bathrooms in their homes?

People who have benefited from the addition of single-stall bathrooms also include disabled students, families with small children and people who have a caregiver of the opposite sex.


Not to mention people who want to use the bathroom when someone's already in there. Nothing's lamer than standing around next to a locked bathroom when there's a perfectly good bathroom right there but it has a sign that says "men" on the door, so you'll get boy cooties if you use it.

Does anyone out there *really* care what genitals the person who used the bathroom before them had? And if they do, is it really any of their goddamn business anyway? I mean, seriously people. It's not that big a deal.

Bitch_PhD always uses the men's bathroom if the women's is occupied. She can also pee standing up.

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malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

DEC 12, 2007 11:07 PM

oyaji said:
Who the hell cares? It's all completely non-sexual, human activity. Why sexualize it because it happens to be in different parts of the same room? Oh no! There might be a chick right next to me while I take a crap! Or, oh no, I have to change my tampon when there is a huge cock peeing just inches away! Woopididoo.



Well, the thing is, to you or me it may not be sexual, but the internet shows us that there are quite a few people to whom it is. Just like the internet shows us that there are people who find cannibalism sexy. These are really not things I wanted to know.

BlastProcessing

BlastProcessing

USA
OLD SKOOL

DEC 12, 2007 11:21 PM

oyaji said:

malkav11 said:

oyaji said:
Who the hell cares? It's all completely non-sexual, human activity. Why sexualize it because it happens to be in different parts of the same room? Oh no! There might be a chick right next to me while I take a crap! Or, oh no, I have to change my tampon when there is a huge cock peeing just inches away! Woopididoo.



Well, the thing is, to you or me it may not be sexual, but the internet shows us that there are quite a few people to whom it is. Just like the internet shows us that there are people who find cannibalism sexy. These are really not things I wanted to know.



But a huge percentage of people -- I minority, let's say 25% of people -- are really against same-sex restrooms. Are you claiming that 25% (or whatever the significant minority is) are like, into scat?



Well if you say it like that, it just sounds gross.

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

DEC 13, 2007 01:38 AM

oyaji said:
Also, the co-ed dorms in Berkeley just had a single, co-ed bathroom on each floor, with mixed stalls and showers all in one big room. So... GASP... you could be in a private shower stall while just mere inches away, on the other side of a high, wall partition, there might be a naked girl taking a shower. And in another part of the room some dude is taking a crap.

Who the hell cares? It's all completely non-sexual, human activity. Why sexualize it because it happens to be in different parts of the same room? Oh no! There might be a chick right next to me while I take a crap! Or, oh no, I have to change my tampon when there is a huge cock peeing just inches away! Woopididoo.


+1. Oberlin had similar arrangements at least as far back as 1991, and despite some people's initial discomfort, it never proved to be a big deal.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

DEC 13, 2007 12:45 PM

oyaji said:

malkav11 said:

oyaji said:
Who the hell cares? It's all completely non-sexual, human activity. Why sexualize it because it happens to be in different parts of the same room? Oh no! There might be a chick right next to me while I take a crap! Or, oh no, I have to change my tampon when there is a huge cock peeing just inches away! Woopididoo.



Well, the thing is, to you or me it may not be sexual, but the internet shows us that there are quite a few people to whom it is. Just like the internet shows us that there are people who find cannibalism sexy. These are really not things I wanted to know.



But a huge percentage of people -- I minority, let's say 25% of people -- are really against same-sex restrooms. Are you claiming that 25% (or whatever the significant minority is) are like, into scat?



No. But they might be worried about people that are.

Thistle

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

DEC 13, 2007 07:46 PM

malkav11 said:

oyaji said:

malkav11 said:

oyaji said:
Who the hell cares? It's all completely non-sexual, human activity. Why sexualize it because it happens to be in different parts of the same room? Oh no! There might be a chick right next to me while I take a crap! Or, oh no, I have to change my tampon when there is a huge cock peeing just inches away! Woopididoo.



Well, the thing is, to you or me it may not be sexual, but the internet shows us that there are quite a few people to whom it is. Just like the internet shows us that there are people who find cannibalism sexy. These are really not things I wanted to know.



But a huge percentage of people -- I minority, let's say 25% of people -- are really against same-sex restrooms. Are you claiming that 25% (or whatever the significant minority is) are like, into scat?



No. But they might be worried about people that are.



Then they are idiots and we should not bend to their incredibly irrational fear of peeing in the same bathroom that a pee fetishist peed in.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

DEC 13, 2007 08:58 PM

It's not that. It's the idea that the pee fetishist might spy on you peeing. But anyway, yeah. I certainly don't have any issue with unisex restrooms.

Thistle

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

DEC 13, 2007 09:03 PM

malkav11 said:
It's not that. It's the idea that the pee fetishist might spy on you peeing. But anyway, yeah. I certainly don't have any issue with unisex restrooms.



Of course that is also an insanely irrational fear, and anyway pee fetishists can easily do that now and bathrooms are even marked so they know the gender of their choice is the one they will be spying on.

BlastProcessing

BlastProcessing

USA
OLD SKOOL

DEC 13, 2007 09:17 PM

Thistle said:

malkav11 said:
It's not that. It's the idea that the pee fetishist might spy on you peeing. But anyway, yeah. I certainly don't have any issue with unisex restrooms.



Of course that is also an insanely irrational fear, and anyway pee fetishists can easily do that now and bathrooms are even marked so they know the gender of their choice is the one they will be spying on.



So it's surprise fetishists you have something against?

Thistle

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

DEC 14, 2007 07:36 PM

BlastProcessing said:

Thistle said:

malkav11 said:
It's not that. It's the idea that the pee fetishist might spy on you peeing. But anyway, yeah. I certainly don't have any issue with unisex restrooms.



Of course that is also an insanely irrational fear, and anyway pee fetishists can easily do that now and bathrooms are even marked so they know the gender of their choice is the one they will be spying on.



So it's surprise fetishists you have something against?



What?

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

DEC 14, 2007 11:38 PM

Blank post of death.

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

DEC 14, 2007 11:40 PM

malkav11 said:
It's not that. It's the idea that the pee fetishist might spy on you peeing..


I am constantly being spied on by same-sex pee fetishists at the urinal.

Constantly.

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

DEC 14, 2007 11:40 PM

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