Equal Rights Always Sends Conservatives to the Restroom

Hat tip to Nancy LeTourneau for pointing out that, whenever there is an equal rights fight, conservatives always seem to worry about what happens in the bathroom. It seems that every group that fights for equal rights must at some point confront the apocalyptic dangers that might occur when “they” use the restroom – perhaps it is a signpost that their movement for equality is gaining traction. “Separate but equal” most definitely applied to bathrooms – and it applied to Mexican-Americans as well as African Americans under Jim Crow, although, apparently, some companies still haven’t gotten the message about the passage of the Civil Rights Act. As LeTourneau also notes, back in the 1970s conservatives (falsely) complained that women would be forced to use the same bathroom as men if the Equal Rights Amendment became law. And now we have the latest wave of reactionary bathroom laws in response to the LGBT fight for equal rights. ‘Twas ever thus…