Monday, May 9, 2016

Bathrooms

Gender issues, and bathroom usage are hot topics - and rightly so.  A long time ago someone decided that there were exactly two kinds of people in the world, women and men.  So bathrooms were labeled for each.  As we have evolved, thankfully, we have discovered that it isn't as black and white as originally thought.  Gender is more that just men or women, but a continuum.  To avoid a dangerous intolerance I believe we could change the idea of bathrooms having anything to do with gender at all.  If we took down all the "men" and "women" signs and replaced them with "penis" and "vagina" the problem would be solved.  Bathrooms would stop being "decisions" based on one's gender, but pure "fact" based on equipment.