10-07-2016, 12:45 PM
(10-07-2016, 12:06 PM)Leanne Wrote: Just to weigh back in on the thoughts from the original post, rather than the execution of the poem itself which I find rather good for a style I don't especially seek out (the layout is a bit tumblr-ish for me, though the phrasing is accomplished and rather attractive) -- anyway. We have had unisex toilets here in public places for some time, particularly at the beach. They're basically just rows of individual cubicles. I don't recall any specific problems with them attracting terribly predatory men in dresses, or women in overalls. Rather to the contrary, people here don't seem to be thinking sexual thoughts while they're evacuating bladder or bowel -- maybe it's different in the USA. We'll pretty much believe anything of Americans these days...Part of the problem is TV which needs to focus on drama and excitement to draw eyeballs to watch commercials. So a complaint at one toilet ends up looking like a national problem. Next we have the grievance industry always looking for another clutch of people venting, resenting or inventing agonizing tales about how they're being ignored--poor things. Right now, half of Florida may be flooded or wiped out with huge numbers who played the weather odds finding they lost their bets and expect reasonable folk to pick up the tab for their bad judgments.
In fact, pretty much the only thing that I wonder about this whole "debate" is why it's such a loud, highly visible issue and what is it a smokescreen for? I would worry less about sexual assault in a public toilet and more about the faceless men (and women, and trans/ gender fluid/ part donkey, whatever) who are very quietly screwing everyone.
Many complain about "inequality" but are too dense to see that them what has gets. People with little houses will be taxed to subsidize those whose vacation homes on the beaches and islands are being demolished by Nature.