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From: barry@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,soc.women
Subject: Re: who drives the bus nonissue?
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 13:56:55 EDT
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In article <524@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrdave@deneb.UUCP writes:
>
>>If they don't want to accept the state's services as is, without
>>attempting to force them to conform to an antiquated, sexist, and illegal
>>moral code, let them pay for it themselves.
>
>Here here!  The law says there should be no discrimination upon
>the basis of sex, and I believe the law of the land is right.  Now,
>I have learned that the women's bathrooms here at U.C. Davis have
>a couch and a makeup table in them, while the men's rooms have
>no such amenities.  According to the law, this is *ILLEGAL*.  Of
>course, it's also antiquated and sexist.  Also, since this is a
>state bathroom, state funds are used for the maintenance of the
>couches and makeup tables.

Will somebody please tell me how the federal laws on fair hiring and
job assignments have anything to do with bathrooms?

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that whenever people stand
up for women's rights, whether it be ERA, or even something as supposedly
simple as asking the state not to sanction sexism and abide by its laws,
that opponents start yelling about bathrooms?

Probably the next argument will be that since women aren't drafted, they
shouldn't be allowed to drive busses containing male children of the
Hassidim.

>Let's all work now to stop this antiquated separation of the sexes.
>Break down bathroom barriers at your company or college, and treat
>the sexes as one.

One what? 

Mikki Barry
HASA