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- From: hwatters@armltd.uucp (Helen Watters)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: <none>
- Message-ID: <9873@armltd.uucp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:53:21 GMT
- References: <17NOV92.20223278.0047@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <1992Nov18.181215.4795@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
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- Doc
- >I expect flames from all the feminists from this one, and I can't wait to
- >see the replies.
-
- It seems to me that anytime a guy gets a reaction from a woman
- he doesn't like he blames it on feminism. If it were not for that
- dammed feminism, poisoning women's minds, they would all be sweet
- nice people. Bullshit. Women believe it or not are people
- and as such women's behaviours range from the diabolical to the
- wonderful.
-
- Anyway back to the subject of unisex washrooms. I once went into a
- men's washroom by accident. It was in a hotel and they had those
- fancy signs up and I couldn't tell which toilets belonged
- to which sex.
-
- > A few
- >minutes later (I'm back at my table) some bitch comes over (another waitress)
- >and gives me the third degree of how that was wrong, and other bullshit.
-
- I got the same kind of treatment out of the guy who walked in after me.
- I guess he was a bitch too :-) or can bitch only refer to women? What
- is the male equivalent?
- That kind of attitude is is down to the type of person. Not their sex,
- not whether they are a feminist or not, etc. By the way if a woman
- wants to speak her mind, she has a right to. Men have been doing this
- for years:-)
-
- What has changed over the last hundred years is that more women are no
- longer dependant on a man and so are free to behave as themselves,
- without fear of being punished (beaten, starved etc.). In fact women
- are free to behave, if they so choose, just like a man :-)
-
- So I guess, if women are people and entitled to behave in a way that is
- right for them, you are entitled to make sweeping comments about
- feminists. I do find your generalistions a little wide, in a similar
- vein to all men are...(put in whatever derogatory remark you feel
- like.)
-
- Anyway I seem to have wondered away from the subject of unisex washrooms.
- Of course a male poster would never drift or ramble, when replying to
- a post:-)
-
- Back to the subject of unisex washrooms
- What kind of reaction would I expect from men as a group to unisex
- washrooms? Well, I would expect some men to be upset, some who think
- it great and some to be neutral. In fact I expect men to have as a wide
- range of reactions to this situation, as women.
-
- Helen
-
- PS I prefer single sex washrooms, but it maybe, because I am used to that.
-