more about bathrooms. thinking back to the sixties. before. with bathrooms
for black people. and bathrooms for white people. because white people didnt
want black people watching them take a piss. or whatever. now. so racist in
our times. and yet. still. bathrooms for male people. and bathrooms for
female people. why? people tell me tradition. cultural acceptance. but was
not black. white separation tradition. culturally accepted. this does not
dispute the differentism. only reasons why it is hard to change. but should
we change it?
how many conversations go on amongst corporate men in corporate male
bathrooms that women are not privy to. business contacts. deals made. secrets
told. overheard. (and do they subconsciously label their bathrooms the
executive bathroom and the secretarial bathroom?). and communication. the
mystery of women going to powder their noses. how much misunderstanding
between the sexes could disappear if one could get them to see theyre both
human.
yet people argue. what of attraction. people dont want people that could be
attracted to them putting on their makeup. but what of homosexuals. do they
then need separate bathrooms? others tell me. (looking down). how there are
some things women have to do in a bathroom that men dont. and are women
squatting by the sink legs splayed to put in tampons? rather such things
happen in stalls. as such private things should. we do not have separate
bathrooms in our houses. why should we when we go out? though it may not be
the time to unify the sexes. show that they are equal rather than mere words.
hopefully someday we will see our sexual separation as much overtly sexist
as we view the pre-sixties racial separation as overtly racist.