While I am in favor maintaining separate rest room facilities for men and 
women, as a person who has been through quite a few Mardi Gras celebrations, 
that's the one time that if you are in downtown New Orleans attending a 
parade and need to use the facilities, you take whatever you can get.  That 
Benny Grunch song, "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day," is quite true.
Harvey
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From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Blind people and rest rooms


> ah yes, the good old gender debate.  You know, relieving ones self has
> little to do with sexual activity...I mean sure, there are some different
> feddishes, but a washroom, restroom, bathroom whatever you want to call 
> it,
> is for the purpose of relieving oneself.  Many countries in the world
> figured this out and the facilities are not gender specific.
> I see it this way, and I speak from quite a fare bit of experience.  If 
> you
> are a guy, take your kids into the mens washroom regardless of their
> gender...until such time as they can go by themselves.  If your a woman, 
> the
> same holds true.
> I've yet to go into a washroom where guys walk around with their rigging
> hanging out.
> And I'm pretty sure women don't immediately strip naked and perform lude
> acts in the washroom such that children would be tramatized or whatever.
> It's a real old fashioned and puritanical traddition and concept to 
> separate
> mens and womens restrooms.
> I know, I'll get all kinds of flack for saying that, but come on, europe
> knows this and there isn't men's and women's public washrooms.  There are
> public washrooms.
> If your too much of a prude or are afraid you'll potentially glimse some
> portion of someones anatomy, which for most adults, is nothing they ain't
> seen before, then I suppose you might require a facility that is gender
> specific.  You would also probably allow some stranger to take your child
> into a restroom just so you don't have to offend the gender police.
> not pointing fingers, I've just seen that too often.
> I mistakenly used the women's washroom at the university I returned to 
> after
> a couple years of being absent.  They had, while I was gone, switched the
> men's and women's washrooms around, but being there at night, there was 
> very
> seldom anyone to let me know this.  The only time anyone else came in, was
> while I was already inside the cubical.
> this went on for 6 months until one night a cleaning lady happened to see 
> me
> heading for the washroom entrance and let me know, in quite a panicked
> manner, that it was the ladies hahahaha...oh well, shit happens right lol.
> I always wondered why there was 8 stalls in there and why I couldn't find
> the stand up urinals...I wasn't going to go hunting though since putting
> your hand in one of those by accident isn't particularly enjoyable.
>
> Anyway, the whole stupid arguement about weather men should take their
> daughters into men's rooms, or women take their son's into women's rooms 
> is
> so petty and rediculous to me.
> We argue and get uptight about that, and at the same time, the teen
> pregnancy rate in the United States is at an all time high.
> There is something wrong with this picture.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX