Last September, University of California President Janet (“Paaaat”) Napolitano called for “gender-neutral” bathrooms on campus.
But for the Bathroom Brigade, the change is not happening fast enough.
Via The Daily Californian: Dwinelle Hall bathroom protest addresses issue of all-gender restrooms on campus
On Wednesday morning, a small group of students posted signs and occupied bathrooms in Dwinelle Hall as part of an ongoing effort to pressure the administration to provide more gender-neutral restroom options on campus.
The group behind the protest, known as the Bathroom Brigade, displayed signs and covered the male and female icons on the bathroom doors with notices encouraging “everyone, of all genders, to use this bathroom.” Additional notices, designating the bathrooms as gender-neutral spaces, were placed over stalls, mirrors and towel dispensers, while participants handed out flyers to incoming students….
The protests hinge on the university’s response to a measure approved by UC President Janet Napolitano last September that would convert single-stall bathrooms to gender-neutral ones and incorporate those bathrooms into new buildings on campus.
For some students, however, change has not come fast enough.
“I think the university’s administration has dragged its feet,” said Sben Korsh, a first-year graduate student, in an email. “The campus has known about this issue for decades, and they are still throwing up bureaucratic barriers for providing these safe spaces for students.”
Safe spaces?
Ok.
Whatever…
So, this is what our universities have been reduced to: who can use this toilet.
Do urinals count as gender equality? Is this covered by the campus ‘free speech’ code? Inquiring minds, Ha.
Gosh, Alain, good question. But here’s another question: If someone is in the bathroom, and responds to a knock on the door with, “Sorry, this bathroom is occupied,” will that be satisfactory for the Bathroom Brigade? 🙂
Sad, they will never understand “Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room”
Here’s my suggestion. If they want these, then they can clean them, too.
posted 3/18 717am Texas[Bab-O]Time
It gets better…
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/03/18/napolitano-says-we-dont-have-to-listen-to-this-crap-as-students-protest-potential-uc-tuition-hikes/
posted 3/19 1212pm Texas[Higher Education]Time
I don’t have a problem with this concept, as long as it is a single-user (one occupant at a time) bathroom. Otherwise, no thank you.