Restroom Access Bill Criticised

[Gra]

This columnist for the Virginia Pilot website says that IBD sufferers cant be trusted to enter private restrooms because they may use the opportunity to steal from a business. She has no compassion at all, in fact she obviously doesn't WANT to understand:

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/01/bathroom-bill-ends-where-it-belongs-down-drain

(PS - you can also leave a comment on what you think online at the site)

 

[Jer]

So......having Crohns makes me a thief???


Interesting correlation.

 

[Gra]

So......having Crohns makes me a thief???

Interesting correlation.

...Maybe its a little known side effect? :eek2:

 

[Susan2]

...Maybe its a little known side effect? :eek2:

One of those extraterrestrial manifestations.

 

[2thFairy]

So......having Crohns makes me a thief???


Interesting correlation.

Wow... I never even considered something like this. Maybe this is a new career move for us.

 

[ThanksP]

I don't think the author was saying people with IBD are thieves. I'm assuming the thief lied about needing to use the bathroom as a rouse to get in the back of the store.

I don't agree with the tone of this article but I do agree with the basic sentiment. We don't need a LAW for everything. Some businesses are not set up to allow non employees in to use the restroom. Sometimes for insurance purposes, the public is not allowed to use the employee only bathroom. I think they'd be better served to start a large public awareness campaign than to create yet another law.

 

[StaceyQ]

didnt you all know about that side effect!

Just another tag becuase people do not understand

 

[CrohnsChicago]

I don't think the author was saying people with IBD are thieves. I'm assuming the thief lied about needing to use the bathroom as a rouse to get in the back of the store.

I don't agree with the tone of this article but I do agree with the basic sentiment. We don't need a LAW for everything. Some businesses are not set up to allow non employees in to use the restroom. Sometimes for insurance purposes, the public is not allowed to use the employee only bathroom. I think they'd be better served to start a large public awareness campaign than to create yet another law.

That's why the law specifically states what type of businesses and how many employees must be present in order to allow IBD patients use of the facility. That way business isn't inturrupted by being accommodating and heaven forbid you feel someone will steal they have a person on hand to stand in the area and guard the supplies.

Some People are going to try and steal sometimes regardless of whether they are IBD patients or not. To single out a specific group and in the manner they did just blows my mind! If only she could walk a mile in our shoes, mid-flare (severe) for a day....

 

[Marni's mom]

There's the article written by an ignoramous...then there's comments from numskulls.

I read that comment, too, but I think the writer was being sarcastic. I don't think he or she agreed with the author of the op/ed piece.

 

[Marni's mom]

She sure had her at handed to her in all those comments. I hope she read them and has seen the error in her quick and ignorant judgement.

I am a small business owner, too (a dentist), and when Texas passed the restroom accessibility law, I was pretty ticked off, too. I had mental images of unwashed homeless people wandering into my office demanding to use my bathroom to bathe in the sink and clog my toilet with paper towels. That was until my baby got sick and was finally diagnosed with Crohn's. THEN I understood, and I have had to quote the law on many occasions to hesitant retail employees after my daughter was denied the use of their restroom and was on the verge of an accident. Now, I'm a warrior mother when my child gets that look on her face and says she has to go to the bathroom NOW!

 

[2thFairy]

That was until my baby got sick and was finally diagnosed with Crohn's. THEN I understood, and I have had to quote the law on many occasions to hesitant retail employees after my daughter was denied the use of their restroom and was on the verge of an accident. Now, I'm a warrior mother when my child gets that look on her face and says she has to go to the bathroom NOW!

CrohnsChicago posted this link:

http://myibd.org/RestroomMedAlert/index.php

You get a plastic card that might aid in getting quicker access to restrooms for your daughter. It's free!