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The VIPee Experience, The Exploratorium

July 10, 2019

While some states are trying to pass legislation on bathroom rules, California (especially San Francisco) embraces gender neutrality.   For Pride month The Exploratorium at their Thursday night, adult-only event After Dark. They revealed a courageous and bold exhibition based around the bathroom. 

The VIPee experience.    

They (literally) rolled out the red carpet and turned the bathroom into an exhibit,  Ingenious! With a DJ playing Disco music and Disco lights at the bathroom entrance.  They covered up the men and women bathroom signs and welcomed you to use the room according to a new set of rules.  A museum bathroom attendant would ask you questions: Are you tall, do you wear glasses, do you have long or short hair?  Then, they would point you to the door you are supposed to use.

My response was – Can they all leave? I am the type of person that doesn’t want anyone in the bathroom with me,  men or women. Also, being a large black man, I wasn’t in the mood to be the extreme outlier to their little experiment, which is a different set of issues we can cover in Black History month.   Though, I did appreciate what they were doing!

What would you do?

The Exploratorium delivered a creative thought-provoking exhibit for today’s time. 

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