Panel calls for neutral bathrooms ("Transgender" Loony Alert!)

Chicago Maroon ^ | 11/21/03 | Robert Katz

[SamAdams76]

We should have 32 separate restrooms in every facility to cater to each and every group of confused folk. A restroom for lipstick lesbians, a restroom for dress-wearing men who are not gay but nevertheless feel uncomfortable being in the same restroom as a pants wearing man, a bathroom for masculine gay men who do not want to share a restroom with lipstick lesbian but do not mind sharing a bathroom with a leather-wearing dyke. Then of course we need a restroom for those masculine gay men who DO feel uncomfortable sharing a restroom with leather-wearing dykes but on the other hand do not mind sharing a bathroom with dress-wearing straight men.

[Irene Adler]

My suggestion is "Men," "Women," and "Center of the Universe." Maybe that would satisfy the people quoted in this article.

[Irene Adler]

"I don't want a strange man in the next stall listening to me pee."

"Don't go on a camping trip. Wait until the mare your riding stops and leaves a whizz, or the rear end ups and drops some manure. Stay home in Peoria, you'd never survive on a ranch."

I spent years around horses, and I don't want men in the stall next to me in restrooms, either. I don't see what horses pooping or peeing has to do with being uncomfortable sharing a restroom with members of the human opposite sex.

[Cobra64]

I don't know. I don't have a problem with this with my wife. Further, if I need to relieve myself, especially in a combat situation, I have no problem.

I will admit that if I'm at the Met or a Broadway Show, wearing a $1000 suit, $175 tie and $400 Gucchis; yes I want some private time.

Aside from that scenario, I'm okay.

We are building a $600k house 1.67 acres on Lake James. My wife squats and I pee on a tree. The conversation went like this: "Well Karen, you have been peeing for about 53 years. Who cares if someone sees you do this? The Eagles and squirrels?

[ladylib]

If you have to pee bad enough so that you're practically cross-eyed, you're really not going to care about associating yourself with certain images and self-labeling.

This twit's parents are paying for this "crap."

[Wolverine]

Maybe this will help..

 

Another help..

[Pedantic_Lady]

Sex-gender CONTINUUM??? You mean there's an infinite number of combinations between male and female? You're either a MAN, a WOMAN, or an IT.

Yeah, really! I mean...if someone is "transgendered," as these people are calling themselves these days, they're basically a man saying they're a woman or a woman saying they're a man...so if you're a woman trapped in a man's body and you're PRE-op, use the men's room. If you're post-op, use the women's room. This is not rocket science. Geeeeeeeeeeez. Basically...if your bits dangle, men's room. If your bits don't dangle, women's room.

[Pedantic_Lady]

If he doesn't have vitiligo, though, how'd he turn himself white? I didn't think it was actually possible to bleach human skin like that.

[Pedantic_Lady]

Maybe they should try to fit into NORMAL society instead of trying to fit society into them.

APPLAUSE

[Pedantic_Lady]

Yes, that's sooooooooo judgmental. Like, amputees have to choose between caricatures of people with all four limbs intact. That is, like, so unfair, you know?

Man, you just made me spew Diet Coke all over my monitor. :-)

[Pedantic_Lady]

So, instead of an image of a dress, put an image of a vagina on the women's bathroom door. On the men's door, put the image of a penis. Problem solved.

But then you'd piss off the hermaphrodites.

[Wolverine]

[Pedantic_Lady]

My Dad was stationed in Oz during WWII as a LT Cmdr. His assignment was to build air bases with the Sea Bees and set up medical facilities. There were single-sex bathroom facilities. Most of the nurses, etc., had no problem squatting over the unrinals. The men didn't give a damn, all these folks were fighting a WAR. None of the women were raped or mis-handled in those facilities. On the flip-side, I'm sure a lot of sailors and nurses took care of their sexual requirements; in/on a different venue. Nuff said.

What about when they had to take a dump?

[roadcat]

"It all comes down to this: I don't care if he sits or stands, cuts it off or tapes it between his legs---I don't want a strange man in the next stall listening to me pee."

Hmmn? I don't know if it's just me, but I would worry if I couldn't make noise when I pee. As far as I'm concerned, the louder the noise of the splash, the better I feel. Guys make all sorts of obscene noises when relieving themselves and aren't in the least embarassed. Women should get over it!

BTW, there's this old Chinese female janitor that comes in the men's bathroom at our building to do chores, and she doesn't pay no mind to guys standing at the urinals; she's all business. The younger female janitors wait outside until the bathroom is empty.

[MeekOneGOP]

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[Wolverine]

[Pedantic_Lady]

Wonder how they'd respond to the toilets that still exist in some French rest stops...a hole in the ground with brobdignagian foot rests on either side and a cord that releases water from the ceiling to flush it. Wonder how that would "leverage" their "gender continuum paradigm?"

[tinacart]

My grandkids play basketball at an elementary school. There are three bathrooms: female, male, and unisex. If everyone thinks this garbage is starting with the middle or high schools, they are wrong.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

I'm so confused now I guess I'll just go & pee in the parking lot.

[Pedantic_Lady]

My grandkids play basketball at an elementary school. There are three bathrooms: female, male, and unisex. If everyone thinks this garbage is starting with the middle or high schools, they are wrong.

Maybe the unisex toilet is for...um...overflow?