Letters to the Editor
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women in men's bathrooms is not acceptable.
This may have been covered already, however I do not have time to read all of the responses, but it is absolutely unacceptable for women to use the men's restroom facilities. Period, end of discussion. This has nothing to do with the women's comfort in doing so and nothing to do with the lack of adequate facilities for women either, nor does it have to do with me being a prude, cause I could really care if you hear or see me in the bathroom. This has to do with men's right to an expectation of privacy in the restroom.
I agree that most women's facilities at large events are inadequately designed, and this should be remedied. This a no brainer, and I doubt most people would argue with that. Women need to make their voices heard, and I think on some level they are doing so. Recently I was at a Detroit Lions football game, and all of the men's restrooms had lines, while there was no line to speak of at the women's restroom. This stadium was recently built within the last five years, so perhaps we are seeing a trend when building new facilities.
My problem, is that some women very cavalierly think it is no big deal for them to enter a men's bathroom because they don't want to wait. I'm sorry, if we were to enter a women's bathroom because we did not want to wait for a line or for some other petty reason, women would be outraged, and most likely we would be arrested.
Yes the problem needs to be rectified, but go about it the right way. Don't violate men's privacy to make a point, target those at fault or your code writers/enforcers or legislators and get things done in an apprpriate manner.
Sal