Brandon Guthier
Sociology: Sex and Gender
Timothy Kubal
November 16, 2014
This week's interview question had to do with how participants thought about same-sex bathrooms and changes in the House of Representatives. This relates to the topic of how sex and gender is affected to politics, because the question was: What do you think would happen if the House featured 80% of women inside it inside of 80% men? My interviewee's response was that it could affect certain hot topics such as abortion. The topic of abortion would actually be voted on by women instead of the seemingly appropriate and intellectual men who voted on it in 2012. The interviewee also responded saying that topics such as the minimum wage would see more equalized gap between the sexes if women dominated the House instead of men. The question about how they view same-sex bathrooms was a tricky question for my interviewee. She explained that the restroom is a place for conversation, especially for women. they use it as a way to talk to their friends about personal topics without having to worry about men dropping in on them. Transgenders are harder to deal with when it comes to deciding which bathroom they should use. Ultimately, the interviewee concluded that whichever sex they are identified as should be the type of restroom they are allowed to use, and if they had the choice to choose between allowing for same-sex bathrooms or keeping bathrooms separated by sex, the interviewee would keep bathrooms segregated. This would keep people from feeling uncomfortable about a possible transgender being in the same room with them in a place as personal and private as a restroom.
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