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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts) Fri May 27, 2016, 01:58 PM May 2016

Let's take our use of public restrooms back to the good old days.

When there was no sex or gender distinction regarding who used what.

https://theconversation.com/how-did-public-bathrooms-get-to-be-separated-by-sex-in-the-first-place-59575

In fact, laws in the U.S. did not even address the issue of separating public restrooms by sex until the end of the 19th century, when Massachusetts became the first state to enact such a statute. By 1920, over 40 states had adopted similar legislation requiring that public restrooms be separated by sex.

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Let's take our use of public restrooms back to the good old days. (Original Post) TalkingDog May 2016 OP

Or to just the 60's when if you were black you had one bathroom to use. Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #1

Jackie Wilson Said

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1. Or to just the 60's when if you were black you had one bathroom to use.

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Fri May 27, 2016, 02:02 PM

May 2016

You couldnt use the whites and the one you were to use was singular.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rhetoricraceandreligion/2016/04/when-black-people-were-not-ladies-or-men.html

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