Why, after the decision in Brown v. Board of Education, are bathrooms still segragated?

Question

Why are women forced to use lesser restroom facilities on account of sex? (they aren't allowed to have urinals in them, and men are). Isn't this unconstitutional?

Answer 1

Dude, have you ever been in a women's restroom? WE'RE the one's with lesser facilities. Some of them even have couches in there. Sometimes all we get is a big long trough, like pigs, and we have to go in the same nasty water as the people down the line from us. They get to sit down and relax, we have to stand shoulder to shoulder like criminals in a lineup.

Answer 2

I see his point. We have been told we are supposed to have equality even if it seems strange. So, yes, there should be urinals in the woman's restroom, even if women think that is strange.

This brings up two points. Some years ago, I made a rather standard joke at my work about sneaking into the woman's restroom. A woman friend said, "If you did, and encountered a fat woman taking a ****, you would never do that again."

The second thing, a woman friend used to work as a janitor in the old factory. She said a lot of sexist people think men are dirtier and messier than women. But, she found it totally different.

In the women's restrooms, there would be paper towels soaked in water all over the floor, where the women used them to plug the sink. Also, used sanitary pads lying around.

In the man's restrooms there would be a bit of water spilled, and thus maybe some dirty footprints when the guys walked in the spilled water, and that was it. Much cleaner than the women's restrooms.

Answer 3

Come on...we're not talking about Brown vs. The Board of Education here. That was based on race. This is one of those situations where separate is still equal: neither gender loses anything by having their own toilet facilities. People in the USA clearly prefer it; what would you prove by doing otherwise?

You may eliminate the differences between the races over the next couple hundred years, but the difference between men and women is biologically hard-wired and will never change.

So let us each have our own bathroom, for pete's sake. It's a preference, and it harms no one.

Answer 4

Remember George Owell's saying, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" ...? It is sort of the same way with the U.S. Constitution. Although the Constitution guarantees equality to all people, not all versions of inequality are equally unconstitutional.

I highly recommend reading Evan Gerstmann's book, published in 1999, called "The Constituitonal Underclass: Gays, Lesbians, and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection."

Answer 5

I giggled when i seen this... in Norway they are trying to pass a 'law' where men have to sit to use the restroom.... emm i think if they installed urinals they would not be used neway...

Answer 6

Brown v. Board of Education dealt with race and not gender. Read up on your history.

Answer 7

Silly you. Bathrooms are not segregated by race, but by gender and that is not a legal issue, but one of preference. Please don't upset this apple cart as most women prefer not to share a toilet with a man who pees on the seat.

You are a funny funny fellow to worry about such weighty issues.

Answer 8

a million. the common determination is that race-based segregation in practise violates the 14th modification rights of minority pupils. 2. "Separate yet equivalent" became the criminal wide-unfold that predated Brown v. Board of practise. observed in Plessy v. Ferguson, an old railroad case, it became the old wide-unfold that segregation became permissible under the 14th modification presented that whites and blacks have been presented equivalent, nevertheless separate, lodging. In essence, Brown v. Board of practise rejected Plessy's conserving via arguing that the "separate yet equivalent" wide-unfold serves to sell persevered inequality between whites and blacks in the practise context, for it perpetuated a concept of black inferiority that hindered the overall performance of youthful black pupils dealing with college. 3. As observed above, the 14th modification. 4. As observed above, Brown v. Board fo practise efficiently overturned the Plessy conserving of "separate yet equivalent."

Answer 9

We came to a mutual understanding after they realized we still wouldn't put the seats up.

Answer 10

yeah and why haven't you men gotten a Tampax machine in your bathrooms.