That’s right folks: four separate entities at one of our premier institutions of higher learning got together to bring us a “a day-long conference on Sex, Gender and the Public Toilet: Outing the Water Closet Bringing together pioneering scholars of sex and gender with leading design professionals and activists to consider, critique, and reconstruct the public rest room.”

And what’s so silly about the topic? Anyone who’s been to a nightclub has noticed a power disparity between genders – men in and out of the their cubicles in seconds, while women line up patiently yet urgently for their turn to go. It’s actually not a bad idea for a discussion or a dissertation.

The real outrage here is paying $52,000 for a year’s worth of study. I got 6 years of Engineering and Mathematics for $18,000 (Australian) in the early nineties – and at quite a good university too. Got two bachelors out of it as well.