Letter: Last vestige of male solitude is going away

I went into the restroom at McDonald’s the other day and there was a young woman standing at the mirror.

“Whoa!,” I said (probably because I come from an era when “Whoa!” meant “Stop!”). The door said “Men,” and Allen Funt of Candid Camera fame was nowhere to be seen. So I said “Excuse me,” and started to leave. “Don’t go,” the young woman said, and she left.

Could I now be a data point in some psychology student’s term paper? Half of the new doctors graduating this year are women. A girl delivers my Tri-City Herald every day. Women soldiers are now cleared for combat. And now the last vestige of male solitude, the men’s room, is going away too.

Strange to say, I guess I’m OK with it.

This story was originally published July 23, 2016 at 7:10 PM with the headline "Letter: Last vestige of male solitude is going away."