I thought of this after class today. A lot of the discussion was very insightful and it was interesting to hear other views on the idea of having a gender neutral bathroom. Two things did come to my mind, oddly, on my hour drive home! One thing I thought about is how I have a few guy friends that I KNOW would oppose the idea.. they are they type of people that say women do not shit, burp, fart or doing anything of the sort. I always mess around with them and say things about how I really have to go and they honestly get mad! Another thing that I thought about that would bother me about sharing a bathroom, that is kind of a pet peeve of mine, is the fact that I know the toilet seat will be left up alot!.. honestly though and I know this is a little to much info but there have been times growing up where it was either late or I was in a rush and sat down on the toilet only to my surprise I nearly hit the water because my dad or brother forgot to put the toilet seat down... I live with my boyfriend and we have this one friend who never puts the toilet seat down and it drives me NUTS! Just something to think about!
-Theresa Kaufmann
Thanks Theresa. Those are good points!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this discussion in class because I never would have thought that this topic would come up in this class. I agree with Theresa that I don't know about this because men leave the toilet seat up and I find that to be very nasty and dirty. If we were to share them, than we would have to get used to that. I don't know where men got the idea that they don't think that women don't burp or fart. When this was mentioned in class, I was surprised becasue this is crazy we are all humans and we all do these things for one reason or another. Burping or farting is not gender specific so that means that both women and men do it. After having said all of this, I believe that men and women should have certain bathrooms for reasons that I have mentioned above.
ReplyDeleteAliyah Drake