{"id":4827,"date":"2014-08-13T23:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T06:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2014-08-13T23:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T06:28:57","slug":"the-seat-was-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4827","title":{"rendered":"The seat was up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I hesitated.  I was repulsed at first, because I didn&#8217;t expect it to be like that, but it is San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>I am talking about a public restroom here.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am all in support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2014\/08\/public-bathrooms-are-gender-battlegrounds-mostly-due-to-terrible-signage\/375621\/\">gender neutral bathrooms<\/a> to get rid of people&#8217;s expectations of gender and what not.  After all, at home, all the bathrooms are gender-neutral, right?  Why isn&#8217;t it the same in public?<\/p>\n<p>But what surprised me wasn&#8217;t the fact that there were gender neutral restrooms at a restaurant I visited recently.  Rather that the seat was up and that was almost enough for me to back up and hesitate.  I noticed the lack of genders for the bathrooms and spent a few seconds looking for the gender.  Realizing that in this high-end restaurant that it was all the same with eight stalls, I went in&#8230;and was shocked to find that the seat was up.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing about gender neutral bathrooms if they are established is not whether the genders treat each equally or whether there will be presence of perversion&#8230;but the most important thing to decide is what is accepted for the seat&#8217;s position?<\/p>\n<p>I certainly approve that the seat is always down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I hesitated. I was repulsed at first, because I didn&#8217;t expect it to be like that, but it is San Francisco. I am talking about a public restroom here. Now, I am all in support of gender neutral bathrooms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}