Gender neutral bathrooms: would you use one? What do you think of the movement to make gender neutral public bathrooms?
Response to comment [from other]: "For me, this is also a hygiene
issue... "
I just checked in on this thread to see which one you
would use, Rusha. We’re never sure. Deut 22:5, Mt 19:4.
"Who is we?...You're the one who made the remark."
It's an expression silly.
Don’t you think more perverts would be inclined to use
gender neutral bathrooms? We’re not talking about family bathrooms (toilets as
the Brits like to say). I bet the pervs would use these as meeting places.
Response to comment [from an atheist]: "Generally, I think you're an
idiot. And a post like this pretty much proves my point. If perverts want
to troll, they will, no matter what a sign says."
I hate to get into gruesome details (and I won't) but
pervs already do this (e.g. truck stops, airports, etc.) I'm sure you keep
updated on the news.
We do not need to help them out anymore. You don't think NAMBLA would love
this new arrangement? "Get 'em before 8 or it's too late," right.
And other freaks:
"A worker at HSBC in Hong Kong wanted to be a woman. So the man, whose surname is Wong, took hormones, started dressing like a woman, and booked a sex-change operation. But rather than let him use the ladies' room like he wanted, his company installed a gender-neutral toilet. Now the 55-year-old is fighting for his right to pee where he pleases: he filed a discrimination complaint with the equal opportunities commission."
"Worker Fights to use the Ladies' Room." Maclean's 122.35 (2009): 39. MasterFILE Elite. EBSCO. Web. 21 Feb. 2010.
Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "The ancient Romans had them,
and since our political and jurisprudence system is largely borrowed from
theirs, why not?"
Are you into all things Roman? Let's copy their vomitoriums too.
“In The Dirt on Clean, Katherine Ashenburg looks at
dirt in Western civilization. She describes the bathing (and nonbathing)
practices of the Greeks and Romans, the unwashed Middle Ages and today's lavish
bathrooms, which evoke Rome at its gaudiest.
Dispelling one obvious question among clean freaks, Ashenburg, a journalist and
lecturer, declares, "There's no evidence that the birth rate ever fell because
people were too smelly for copulation."
The ancient Egyptians were fastidious in cleansing, anointing and perfuming
themselves. The Greeks and Romans cleaned their bodies with a curved metal
scraper called a strigil, then anointed themselves with olive oil.
Most ancient religions included ritual washing, but for reasons now buried with
them, early Christians did not preach cleanliness. By the fifth century, being
unwashed "became a uniquely Christian badge of holiness." Hermits and saints
believed that only baptism was acceptable cleansing. St. Francis of Assisi
"revered dirt and was said to have appeared after his death to compliment friars
on their grubby cells." In the Middle Ages, dirt caked on the skin was believed
to protect against the plague.
It wasn't until the 18th century that John Wesley, founder of Methodism, first
preached that "cleanliness is next to Godliness." By the late 19th century,
cleanliness began to take hold, and public baths appeared again in Western
Europe and England. In the United States, Procter & Gamble developed a white
soap. Sales manager Harley Procter found the perfect name in Psalm 45: "All thy
garments smell like myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces... ."
When the Ivory soap machine was left on too long, the lather hardened into cakes
that floated.
And so were born the modern advertising age and the age of cleanliness, linked
inseparably."
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
Source Citation:Wagman, Jules. "How Humans Cleaned up Their Act." The St.
Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL). (Nov 18, 2007).
Just for fun...
Is cleanliness next to godliness?
