A Simple Solution To The Bathroom Wars

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I think it's a reasonable idea. However, this is the country in which a woman's breasts can't be shown on network television, supposedly to protect the innocence of the kids who will witness thousands of simulated homicides on those same networks before they hit adulthood; in which some people still freak out if a woman nurses in public; and in which a disturbing number of grown men and women either giggle or cover their eyes like schoolchildren at the sight of public nudity (at a beach, say). Repressed, uptight, and prurient is a lousy environment in which to foster the notion that people could just take care of their business in a unisex facility without a bunch of fuss.

Yes, yes, I know . . . there would be stalls. But I just can't imagine a significant percentage of people in the U.S. wrapping their heads around the idea, much less supporting it. Not anytime soon, anyway.

And yet doms across the country have them, with showers no less.

True. That's why I think this is an idea whose time will come when those people accustomed to such arrangements from college come into power (for lack of a better way of putting it). I doubt many Boomers would get behind such a proposal.