2013 blog : Nothing wrong with MEN-WOMEN restrooms

I guess I'm old fashioned in even questioning this unisex use of Providence Public Library restrooms -distinctly labeled MEN... WOMEN. I observed two males being given keys to WOMEN restrooms because the MEN rooms were all occupied. I had just returned a key to a WOMEN restroom when I suddenly realized that I was not, after all, FEMALE and I did not want to cause a scandal ( being seen entering a WOMEN room might get a decent guy tagged as a pervert -especially nowadays !) When I questioned a male employee about this unisex use of library restrooms, he snarled at me. Then I went to get my coat in the periodical room where three kids were at a READING table playing cards. On the way out a derelict friend of mine -known as Emo the Cat Man- said that my mind must be degenerating for even thinking in such narrow categories ! My sister , a day care school supervisor, must be even more degenerate than me. She wondered why a LADIES ROOM in a local night club had a condom dispensing machine . I guess she was not as liberated as " Sally " . How many female readers of this newspaper would use a public library LADIES room more frequently used by homeless male derelicts ? It use to be a nice place to read and study -many years ago -the Providence Public Library.