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Title: Jonathan Kay on the idiocy of university bathroom identity politics
Post by: Natasha on December 02, 2008, 05:37:15 PM
Post by: Natasha on December 02, 2008, 05:37:15 PM
Jonathan Kay on the idiocy of university bathroom identity politics
National Post, Canada (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/12/02/jonathan-kay-on-the-idiocy-of-university-bathroom-identity-politics-why-not-just-dig-a-big-hole-in-the-ground-and-make-everybody-use-it.aspx)
Jonathan Kay
12/2/2008
Why not just dig a big hole in the ground and make everybody use it?
There are many things I don't miss about university life. Foremost among them is the idiotic debate — which seems to be ongoing on most liberal-arts campuses — about bathrooms.
I don't mean the actual physical amenities inside the bathrooms. I mean the eye-glazing arguments about who gets to use what bathroom, unisex versus sex-specific, and — most commonly — the accommodation of pre-op, post-op, mid-op, non-op, quasi-op and paleo-op transgendered individuals, who represent about 0.1% of the student population, yet seem to dominate an enormous share of student-council deliberations.
National Post, Canada (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/12/02/jonathan-kay-on-the-idiocy-of-university-bathroom-identity-politics-why-not-just-dig-a-big-hole-in-the-ground-and-make-everybody-use-it.aspx)
Jonathan Kay
12/2/2008
Why not just dig a big hole in the ground and make everybody use it?
There are many things I don't miss about university life. Foremost among them is the idiotic debate — which seems to be ongoing on most liberal-arts campuses — about bathrooms.
I don't mean the actual physical amenities inside the bathrooms. I mean the eye-glazing arguments about who gets to use what bathroom, unisex versus sex-specific, and — most commonly — the accommodation of pre-op, post-op, mid-op, non-op, quasi-op and paleo-op transgendered individuals, who represent about 0.1% of the student population, yet seem to dominate an enormous share of student-council deliberations.