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The surprisingly complex history of women and public bathrooms

women's bathroom
Flickr Photo/Wally Gobetz (CC BY NC ND 2.0)/https://flic.kr/p/74gjsK

Bill Radke talks with Shannon Keating, LGBT editor for Buzzfeed, about how the relationship between gender and bathrooms goes far beyond the modern controversies over transgender rights. Keating explains how through the years the women's room has represented misogyny and racism. She also details how some of Hollywood's most iconic horror scenes are filmed in the bathroom. 

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