The Other Bathroom Wars
The Other Bathroom Wars
#1The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/26/16 at 12:56pm
A great article in the Times covers an issue that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should: the lack of adequate bathroom facilities for disabled children and adults. This is people should be focusing on, rather than nonexistent trans "predators".
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/the-other-bathroom-wars/
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#2The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/26/16 at 6:25pm
The crazies will need to figure out how to make disabled people a scary threat to America before they can discuss the issue.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#3The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/27/16 at 11:34pm
See, the voices of opposition could also say that disabled people aren't the threat. It's the people who might assume the guise of a disabled person in order to gain access to these bathroom facilities.
Updated On: 5/27/16 at 11:34 PM
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#4The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/28/16 at 2:29am
While every public space is required to have restroom facilities for the handicapped, I have never seen a disabled person availing themselves of them. I'd hate to think it's because those people aren't comfortable going out to restaurants or clubs or libraries or bars or super markets or museums. I have occasionally seen them in such venues, just never using the restrooms. I hope it isn't because those of us fortunate enough to be so-called "able bodied" seem somehow intimidating or insensitive of their special needs.
#5The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/29/16 at 10:36am
Wilmingtom, I can't speak to your own experiences. I think that handicapped facilities can be largely accommodating for disabled people who don't require assistance in toileting. What the article brings up--and what I think is an important and underrepresented issue--is the dearth of public facilities for individuals who require assistance toileting or who use diapers. I admit that this is a personal issue for me. I have a teenage nephew who is disabled, use diapers, and it can be very difficult to find a sufficient place to change him in public.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/31/16 at 11:05am
Wilmingtom said: "I have never seen a disabled person availing themselves of them."
Would you really have made a mental note about it if you had?!
#7The Other Bathroom Wars
Posted: 5/31/16 at 8:02pm
But if you let disabled people use the bathroom, they'll DISABLE YOUR CHILDREN!
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
