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Emerson makes restrooms gender-neutral
Boston Globe ^ | September 1, 2007 | Emily A. Canal

Posted on 09/02/2007 10:31:17 AM PDT by pjsbro

On the inside, a set of bathrooms at Emerson College looks like standard fare. On the outside, there are newfangled signs to ease the concerns of students who prefer not to signal that they are entering a men's or women's bathroom. The symbols are gender-neutral, a picture of a man and a woman. In response to students' pleas, Emerson has changed the signs that used to be aimed at a specific gender on 21 restrooms in campus buildings and one of the college's two dormitories. Emerson's changes, made in preparation for the upcoming school year, mirror moves by Tufts University and the University of Vermont, part of a small but growing number of universities modifying policies and facilities on behalf of transgender students. Several colleges have amended nondiscrimination policies to include gender identity, but student groups recently began pursuing more concrete changes, including gender-neutral housing, locker rooms, and bathrooms.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: genderneutral; highereducation; homosexualagenda; leftismoncampus; moralabsolutes
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To: HIDEK6
This transgender thing sounds like attention-seeking behavior to me.

Exactly. I worked in higher education for thirty years, and most of these kind of "advances" were designed more to get some kind of reaction than to really help anybody.

And the more outrageous the 'innovation', the better.

I am sure the administrators at Emerson are distributing copies of this Boston Globe article and congratulating themselves on being at the 'leading edge' of campus toilet policies.

81 posted on 09/03/2007 5:20:52 AM PDT by pjsbro
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To: Clintonfatigued
This could cause a lot of Larry Craig-type scandals

I wonder if the campus police at Emerson will be working undercover in these bathrooms looking for guys trying to pick up girls?

82 posted on 09/03/2007 5:27:51 AM PDT by pjsbro
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To: 3AngelaD
Totally disgusting, and disrespectful of people who still retain a modicum of decency and modesty. Who wants to share a bathroom with a man, even if you are married to him, let alone complete strangers? Mystery, romance out the window!

Read the article. These are single-stall bathrooms. A whole lot of of office buildings and malls have them -- for folks with handicaps, parents who want to accompany an opposite-sex child to the bathroom, or even folks who just have hang-ups about shared restrooms. Some places put their baby-changing stations in there. The only thing unusual about the ones described here is that they have a tub and shower, which most office buildings don't, but makes sense in a dorm.

Emerson didn't add any new restrooms; they just changed the signs.

83 posted on 09/03/2007 5:42:07 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Shots
The article says "Emerson has changed the signs that used to be aimed at a specific gender on 21 restrooms in campus buildings and one of the college's two dormitories," and the students are "persuing" gender-neutral locker rooms.
84 posted on 09/03/2007 6:07:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: pjsbro

This is more about access for the psychologically perverted to the object of their sickness.


85 posted on 09/03/2007 6:17:14 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: ReignOfError

I confess. I watched one too many episodes of Allie McBeal and remain totally grossed out.


86 posted on 09/03/2007 6:23:05 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: HIDEK6

Think psychological disorder. It is plain to me these people who would pay to have themselves genitally mutilated are beyond crazy. Gender neutral institutions is where these sickos belong.


87 posted on 09/03/2007 6:26:54 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: pjsbro

This might seem exciting to some, but, the first time a highly attractive member of the opposite gender sits in the next stall will change that.


88 posted on 09/03/2007 6:30:51 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: 3AngelaD

I never thought about this until now, we only have one bathroom at work and we all share it. I am the only female, I can only remember going into the bathroom once and finding the seat up. The seat is always clean also.

I must truly work with some unusual guys.


89 posted on 09/03/2007 6:37:24 AM PDT by muggs
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To: pjsbro
there are newfangled signs

Signs, signs, everywhere a sign...

Bathroom signs from around the world

90 posted on 09/03/2007 6:42:54 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Correct however the article stated

The school’s Little Building dormitory now has one gender-neutral bathroom, including a bathtub and shower, on every floor. Now how can they be pursuing them if they already have them????

91 posted on 09/03/2007 7:18:07 AM PDT by Shots
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To: Pinkbell

AMEN!


92 posted on 09/03/2007 8:22:32 AM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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To: Shots
I see your point; but the article isn't very clear. The "students" who are "pursuing" these changes seem, in context, to be students at several colleges: Tufts and U. of Vermont are named. So I suess some of them have achieved some changes, and some are pursuing more. Whatever.

I mourn the day when the word "gender" escaped from the grammar and linguistics books and insinuated itself into the bathrooms. Forget gender. The human race has but two sexes. One has a SRY gene; the other one doesn't. That should really be the end of the story.

93 posted on 09/03/2007 9:29:00 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: pjsbro

And of course anyone who objects to using gender neutral bathrooms will be disciplined on campus for “hate speech” and “causing a hostile learning environment”, so of course nobody will dare to speak out against this political correctness tyranny.


94 posted on 09/03/2007 4:38:06 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: F-117A

Kudos... a very timely response!


95 posted on 09/03/2007 8:33:13 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (Liberty Rocks Blog: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com -- I'm with Fred!!!)
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To: pjsbro

Actually, this is nothing new. Brown University had a co-ed bathrooms in a co-ed dorm as far back as 1980.

While visiting a friend’s sister at Brown, I had to use the bathroom. I must admit that I was a bit taken aback when I walked into the bathroom labeled “Men”, only to find a bunch of coeds standing at the mirrors.


96 posted on 09/04/2007 4:13:42 AM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: kjo
These people have become a self-parody. Really, they ARE funny.

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They would be funny except they are so dangerous.

Remember, please, that they are Marxists and Useful Idiots. These are dangerous people whose goal is to destroy freedom. They are working tirelessly to indoctrinate the next generation of voters.

97 posted on 09/04/2007 7:44:12 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Although I’m slightly offended as an Emerson student, there is a large number of students here that look like they study interior design.


98 posted on 02/15/2008 5:23:42 AM PST by NavySon ("...but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't goanna make it with anyone anyhow...")
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To: Grizzled Bear

Hillary Clinton is goanna sue!


99 posted on 02/15/2008 7:06:22 AM PST by NavySon ("...but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't goanna make it with anyone anyhow...")
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To: HIDEK6

Yeah, a friend of mine works at Dunkin’ Donuts and told me how one time he had to clean the ladies’ room and there was a “feminine product” in one of the toilets. If I were him I would’ve quit then and there.


100 posted on 02/15/2008 7:19:43 AM PST by NavySon ("...but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't goanna make it with anyone anyhow...")
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