Gender neutral restrooms?

[kallend 2,026]

So the GF's daughter is a junior at Beloit College, where they currently have a big flap going on with students demanding "gender neutral" bathrooms and the administration saying "get real".

Supposedly, gender specific bathrooms are a problem for trans-sexual students!

Here's some background:

groups.msn.com/Transgender/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=30193&LastModified=4675514666751419402

So whaddya think?

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[justinb138 0]

I think some people have way too much time on their hands if they're worrying about stuff like that.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

the only reaction I could come up with was laughter.

[Ron 10]

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At the New College of California, a liberal arts college in the Mission District of San Francisco, men's and women's rooms have recently given way to "de-gendered" restrooms, devoid of urinals as well as of white stick figures with pants or a skirt. Signs on the doors proclaim the new restroom politics: "Lots of people don't fit neatly into our culture's rigid two-gender system."

Like it or not there are really only two major genders...Pick one.

You should use the bathroom that is set up by if you are an innie or an outtie.

How hard is that?

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

[airdweller 0]

Same thing happened at the University of New Hampshire. It feels like PC gone amuck. If I hadn't seen it for myself I would have thought it was a joke.

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[pajarito 0]

Who would've guessed "San Francisco?" Just gotta laugh and shake my head. That problem has got to be fairly low on the priority scale.

[AggieDave 6]

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It feels like PC gone amuck.

Ding, we have a weiner. Well, we have a weiner, but its tucked between the legs and stuffed short with panties, then gets in a bind when it tries to use a womens restroom.


I personally don't care what people think they want or what they do sexually; however, trying to force change in bathrooms? I can definately see how men trying to be women would really really make a women uncomfortable in a restroom.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[lawrocket 3]

Personally, I've got a problem with the concept.

I think it can be stripped down to this issue - who should be uncomfortable? You've got transsexuals who don't want to use their birth-sex bathrooms because it apparently would make them uncomfortable. So the go to the opposite of birth-sex bathroom, which makes 90 percent of the rest of the population uncomfortable.

Now, I've got no problem with the right to express themselves. But, I also think that time, place and manner should also be given some consideration.

I like the idea of just having a separate restrooms for those who want "gender neutral." However, I think that fears of violence would not be remedied by this. While it won't mak the everyday person upset at seeing the opposite sex using the bathroom next to him/her, I also think that they might as well put a target on them.

The violent bigots who are intent on doing some bootin' will simply hang out there where the victims will come right to them. The cure for that? Swift and harsh punishment of the agressors.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[mr2mk1g 10]

Disabled toilets are gender neutral. Tell them they're disabled.

[rehmwa 2]

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I think some people have way too much time on their hands if they're worrying about stuff like that.

yup

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[DrunkMonkey 0]

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I think some people have way too much time on their hands if they're worrying about stuff like that.

Yeah-College students with no real responsibilities. Watch "PCU" for reference.

[unformed 0]

They need to stop bothering the rest of society with this gay politically correct bullshit.

They should make restrooms, saying instead of "men" and "women", it should day "penis" and "vagina". make it much more simpler.

(PS: I have nothing against gays, it's used figuratively.)

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[rehmwa 2]

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Disabled toilets are gender neutral. Tell them they're disabled.

Do you mean toilets that don't work? I can disable a toilet by pouring sandcrete in the bowl, I can disable it's flush function by removing any number of components (the chain being the easy one)

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[Rebecca 0]

Eh. Just go where you identify. People are people. If a transsexual or a boi or a transvestite wants to pee in the stall next to me, that's fine.

Just don't get uncomfortable if I ask for toilet paper under the wall, or where you got those fantastic shoes.

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[Nightingale 0]

UC Berkeley has co-ed bathrooms. The doors on stalls extend to the floor, and are taller than usual, for privacy. ditto with shower areas. When I visited there, it was perfectly comfortable, and I really don't see why other public restrooms shouldn't be like that, provided they have the taller walls and doors for privacy.

[mr2mk1g 10]

No I mean toilets set up for wheelchair users.

We call them "disabled toilets" over here... translate that into whatever PC term you guys use over there for "crip-crappers".

[Ron 10]

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Ding, we have a weiner. Well, we have a weiner, but its tucked between the legs and stuffed short with panties, then gets in a bind when it tries to use a womens restroom.

This was funny...

BTW, What would the little stick person look like?

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

[rehmwa 2]

Speaking of wallowing in stereotypes of liberals, here's a quote

"You know, my dear, the moment I looked into your eyes I knew that you did not have the mind for the noble art of Divination. See? Right here. You may be young in years but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid's, your soul as dry as the pages of the books to which you so desperately cleave. "

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[donjumps 0]

I couldn't agree with you more!

Is this REALLY a problem!!!!

Are there enough trannies out there for this to be a valid concern, or do some people post messages just to see themselves in print!!!!?

Don

[Rebecca 0]

Ahahaha! I knew that quote right from the start!

Yep, Harry Potter fan! Don't forget though - every once in a while, Madam Trelawney was right...

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[jumper03 0]

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BTW, What would the little stick person look like?

maybe like the stick woman with the dress with a little sack hanging out the bottom?

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[kallend 2,026]

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UC Berkeley has co-ed bathrooms. The doors on stalls extend to the floor, and are taller than usual, for privacy. ditto with shower areas. When I visited there, it was perfectly comfortable, and I really don't see why other public restrooms shouldn't be like that, provided they have the taller walls and doors for privacy.

Last time at Z-Hills I noticed it has women-only restrooms and unisex restrooms, but no men-only restrooms. Given that only some 15% of skydivers are female, what kind of logic is that?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[shropshire 0]

bahhhhhh!

hey, now we can play hightest up the wall against the girls too.........

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[rehmwa 2]

bad logic. But as long as there is a tree to stand behind, my privacy is safe for at least '1' thing. Meaning number 1, as in pee, urinate, etc.

edited because Kallend is very observant

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[billvon 2,989]

Where I went to college, we had coed bathrooms in our living group. Even coed showers with a 'check first' rule. It took a little while to get used to (hey, I was coming from an all-boys high school) but once I got used to it it was no big deal. We all poop the same way, and the way we pee isn't all that different.

If people want coed bathrooms, give em coed bathrooms. If they want single sex bathrooms, give them that. Who cares? (other than the PC extremists and the anti-PC extremists that is.)