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From: kmw@iheds.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Public Restrooms (semi-flame)
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Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 14:14:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  1 14:14:50 1983
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Don Syanwyck says:
	I will beleive that women ar serious about social equality the first time
	I hear a woman speak up and say that it is not fair for women to have
	special treatment in the area of restrooms...
 
OK, here goes:
	It is not fair for women to have special treatment in the area
	of restrooms.
 
	If women get chairs or couches in the anteroom, and tables to change
	babies on, men should get them, too.  (By the way, for the men who
	are curious, these things are the exception, not the rule.)
	
	I assume the couches were originally for women with cramps.  Myself,
	I've only used the one at MIT to get some sleep between classes.
	(Not elegant sleeping arrangments, but when I was a student, I took
	sleep where I could get it....)  It seems men would have as many
	reasons as women, excluding cramps, to want to lie down (tired, ill,
	whatever).  And, of course, a baby doesn't stop needing changing
	just because it's the baby's father doing the caretaking.
 
 
 
OK, Don, you're a feminist now, right?
 
	-Kathy Wilber