6/01/14
I heard on the radio the other day that the Houston City Council voted 11 to 6 to eliminate gender separate rest rooms. Yup, unisex public restrooms. Yup, our very own Houston, Texas.
Read carefully, “eliminate gender separate rest rooms.”
For most of 1973, I was stationed in Iwakuni, Japan at the request of the United States Marine Corps. We had liberal leave policies and spent a fair amount of time in the local Japanese community. I guess the public restrooms would have been considered gender “unseparated”. I remember standing at a urinal and Japanese females would walk by to the separate stalls provided for those that were required to sit to relieve themselves. I thought this ironic because the Navy Times newspaper reported that Houston, Texas was considering eliminating gender separate public restrooms and here I was experiencing that very same thing in 1973.
That motion must have been tabled for 41 years. The Houston City Council ought to be real proud of that.
From your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.