From a reader:
Hey Jonah,
As the Times article mentioned, the University of Chicago has just supplied
us with a number of bathrooms for those “uncomfortable” about classifying
themselves in with the hegemonic taxonomies of bourgeois heteronormativity.
The new bathrooms are private and infinitely nicer than the bathrooms for
those of us who have timidly accepted the social construction of our
maleness or femaleness. They are so much nicer, in fact, that I use them
regularly. When I was confronted about using the bathroom a confused
looking “somebody” I simply replied, “I’m not comfortable calling myself a
man on this campus.”






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