Mizzou Renames ‘Unisex’ Restrooms Because Term Isn’t Inclusive Enough

dailycaller.com ^ | Aug. 27, 2016 | Blake Neff

[PROCON]

The University of Missouri (MU) is renaming its “Unisex” restrooms on campus in response to complaints that the current label isn’t inclusive.

Henceforth, restrooms intended for use by both men and women will simply be labeled “toilet.” The change is apparently meant to accommodate student complaints that the “unisex” label, intended to encompass everybody, is actually exclusionary and hurtful.

“Unisex is just such an uncomfortable and outdated word,” MU student Sterling Waldman told the Columbia Missourian. The word, Waldman said, excludes people who identify as neither male nor female. Waldman serves as the social justice chair in MU’s student senate, and successfully pushed for the student government to donate $5000 for the sake of relabeling bathrooms around campus.

[SaveFerris]

yep

[Lazamataz]

The term TOILET offends me.

What about the poop-challenged? Isn’t that a presumptive and degrading concept, the toilet? I want the rooms to be named the Bfgauenbt Ahduit SWBuutkjrfkj.

[SaveFerris]

Yep

[bgill]

Hey, Mizzou, remind us again how many students and their parents’ wallets you’ve lost since last year.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I guess “Potty” would work.

[ntnychik]

“Unisex” was the inclusive term of fifty years ago. Here’s one possible origin:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/his-her-ponchoes-became-thing-history-unisex-fashion-180955240/

[Mears]

Thanks so much.

I guess I wasn’t paying attention——I spent the sixties in the kitchen.

:-)

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[Heart-Rest]

Or,

"The Perfumed Potty Chamber
for She-Males and He-Gals
and Tweeners and Twixters"

[Bellflower]

The word, Waldman said, excludes people who identify as neither male nor female.

Oh, so they identify as nobody.