Cooper Union: An Idiot College

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Clarissa

March 31, 2016

Bill Mea, acting president of the Cooper Union, informed his campus via email that soon all the college’s bathrooms will be gender neutral. Anyone will be allowed to use any bathroom, and the signs designating bathrooms for either men or women will be replaced with signs that say either “Restroom With Urinals and Stalls,” “Restroom With Only Stalls” or “Restroom Single Occupancy.”

Who are these freaks and what is their malfunction?

The administrators of Cooper Union, the college, where this idiocy is unfolding are saying it’s OK for them to go nuts because there hasn’t been a negative response on social media. So I decided to do my part and give them some negative response.

Cooper Union, you are freaks, and your college is a joke. You give us all a bad name at a time when we can least afford it. Take your heads out of the urinals and try concentrating on learning for a change. Because it’s a shame to be this stupid.

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10 responses to “Cooper Union: An Idiot College”

David Gendron

March 31, 2016

TWANZPHOBIA! Your post is twanzphobic and unacceptable! Respect their jendah! 😉 😉

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Evelina Anville

March 31, 2016

What about this makes you so angry? I agree it’s a little silly. But it also seems like a perfectly acceptable solution to what is becoming a national debate. Bathrooms are, sadly, national news: and that’s not Cooper Union’s fault (it’s actually the fault of far right Conservatives who can’t stop fantasizing about what transpeople do in the bathroom.)

I think Cooper Union actually avoided wasting time by coming up with a solution that everybody could live with.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 31, 2016
  
  I’m tired of academia only being portrayed in the media as a bunch of ridiculously out-of-touch idiots who do nothing but waste time and resources on stupid games. In this environment, it’s getting impossible to make a case for state funding for higher education. Who will want to give funds to people who will waste it on renaming bathrooms and policing microaggressions?
  
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Barbara

March 31, 2016

Cooper Union’s real crime was wasting so much money (on what exactly I forget and don’t feel like googling) that they had to end their glorious tradition of free tuition, which was one of their reasons for existing.

It’s an old school (Abraham Lincoln gave a speech there) with a limited number of majors: visual art, engineering, and architecture. Only those who scored the highest on the entrance exam were admitted. Kids who were talented but of limited means were given a great gift. As were the rest of us when they went on to productive, important careers.

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1. Stringer Bell
  
  March 31, 2016
  
  “Cooper Union’s real crime was wasting so much money (on what exactly I forget and don’t feel like googling) that they had to end their glorious tradition of free tuition, which was one of their reasons for existing.”
  
  This.
  
  http://fusion.net/story/192436/cooper-union-endowment-tragedy-betrayed-legacy/
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    March 31, 2016
    
    I knew it!!!!! I knew they had to be doing it to cover for something but I didn’t have time to research.
    
    There is always, always something like this behind every manufactured microaggressions and Co scandal.
    
    Thank you for the link!
    
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Shakti

March 31, 2016

Someone needs to update “Fountain” since everyone seems peculiarly obsessed with bathrooms and cupcakes. It’s been about 100 years, why not?

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Jones

March 31, 2016

Actually … I don’t mind this solution very much.

It reminds me of a Swedish office building I visited long ago where they only had restrooms, full stop. There were no urinals, only full toilets, and each stall was its own self-contained room that could be locked from the inside. Sinks and washing facilities were in the hallway outside, and these were not in a separate room, but actually were in the hallway.

This solved a problem from my perspective: why should I walk into a potentially filthy restroom when all I need to do is to wash something off my hands (usually white board/dry eraser marker crud, as it turned out)?

There were no “helpful” indicators that the toilets were in fact the toilets aside from a little sign in Swedish telling you that they could be found in that spot. No “helpful” iconography, not even the toilet equivalent of the Euro Running Man, was anywhere to be found.

[… BTW, in order to feel more at home here, I’ve installed a Euro Running Man sign over the exit, along with some other Health & Safety Executive-compliant signage, excluding the hot water signs because the water here is not at all hot …] 🙂

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Jones

March 31, 2016

BTW, what has gone all wonky with smileys?

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1. fluffymog
  
  March 31, 2016
  
  Scandinavian one-person any-gender toilets as described above are so LOGICAL and PLEASANT. My university is quietly adding them in to every new building or major refurbishment, with no fuss – one of the (very few) things they are actually just getting on with and doing well, imho
  
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