Durham hotel puts new signs on bathrooms after HB2.
Durham, N.C. — A boutique hotel in downtown Durham has hung new signs on its public bathrooms in response to a controversial state law.
21c Museum Hotel, which opened a year ago and displays contemporary art throughout its lobby and public spaces, installed signs featuring a merged male-female silhouette above the phrase “We Don’t Care” outside a bank of single-stall public restrooms in the hotel.
“The title refers to the position of ‘all are welcome’ or we don’t care where you go to the bathroom,” 21c officials said on the hotel’s website. “The installation gives the community another way to engage in conversation around this important issue. Thought-provoking contemporary art fosters dialogue and discovery.”
The signs were created by Kansas City, Mo., artist Peregrine Honig, and each is signed and numbered, officials said.
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21c also issued a statement denouncing the legislation.
“It is demoralizing that sanctioned discrimination could be a cause contemplated, let alone endorsed, by public officials elected to represent a diverse and complete constituency,” the statement reads. “We humbly stand with fellow North Carolinians who petition the repeal of House Bill 2.”
I’m in favour of these signs going up everywhere. Case closed.
Lovely.
That is, for me, one of the biggest problems with the republican legislators in Raleigh: they are supposed to represent EVERYONE in the state, not just the people who voted for them. Yet they want to deny the rights of a large percentage of North Carolina residents because those residents are different from the legislators.
Menyambal:
It is. I hope someone on Twitter starts a #WeDon’tCare.
Johnson catman:
Yes, but I’ve never noted that repubs were good at that.
Teh thugs rarely represent anyone who voted for them, either. To the effect they represent anything, it’s to follow the whims of their paymasters, and then blame teh dummies and other uppity serfs when it goes wrong. Teh dummies are masters of shooting everyone in the foot, so blaming them sounds plausible. As well as being convenient.
For instance, the lead problem in Flint. Teh dummies controlled Flint, so teh thugs wouldn’t fund anything (so they could keep lowering their paymasters’s taxes), so the city deteriorates substantially, lowering the tax base, accelerating the deterioration, to the point were teh thugs’s law allowing the state to take over comes into play. Teh thugs’s unelected city dictator then “saves money” by changing the water supply, the new water is corrosive and leaches lead from the deteriorated pipes, poisoning the whole city. Teh thugs then blame the dummies for not investing, whilst also blaming them for not having the money to invest, whilst also blaming them for being a dummie while black.
So, where can I find a suit that’s half trousers and half skirt?
Don Dueed:
Make one? Have someone make one for you? That would be an amazing campaign…
I remember the first time I (Englishman) went into the toilet in a French street cafe. There was just the one -- sign just said “Toilette” or something, no symbol. Swing door with no lock, vestibule with urinal and washbasin, lockable door to lavatory. I remember being appalled, and thinking “but… what if I’m peeing and a woman comes in/comes out of the cubicle? What if…?”… and in the manner of things, continued to think these things as I used the facilities. And concluded “yeah… what if they do?”. And at that point, admired the French attitude. It’s a toilet. It’s no big deal. Mainland Europeans mock the English for our ludicrous attitude to toilets, with good reason. I only recently realised the USAian relationship to the smallest room is even weirder.