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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the unisex dept.

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In 1987, a man, a woman, and their daughter attended a Tchaikovsky concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The most notable thing about their outing, all these years later, is something that actually wasn't the least bit unusual: The two women waited in an interminably long line for the bathroom, while the man did not.

What separates their uncomfortable experience from those of innumerable others is that the man in their party was a California state senator. After witnessing just how long his family members had to wait, he introduced legislation to guarantee the state's women more toilets.

In the three decades since, dozens of cities and states have joined the cause of "potty parity," the somewhat trivializing nickname for the goal of giving men and women equal access to public toilets. These legislative efforts, along with changes to plumbing codes that altered the ratio of men's to women's toilets, have certainly helped imbalances in wait times, but they haven't come close to resolving them.

"It still remains a huge problem today, overall," says Kathryn Anthony, an architecture professor at the University of Illinois who has studied the issue for more than a decade. The issue persists for many reasons: the exigencies of real estate, the building codes that govern construction, and, of course, sexism.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/women-men-bathroom-lines-wait/580993/


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:06AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:06AM (#795889)

    This was discovered in the 1980s according to TFA. It is because: "they have to enter a stall to pee, but also because they menstruate."

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:10AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:10AM (#795892)

    "they have to enter a stall to pee, but also because they menstruate."

    Well, address that instead and solve the problem once and for all.
    We're in the 21st century now, isn't that what CRISPR is all about?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:44AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:44AM (#795922)
      • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 04 2019, @01:37AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday February 04 2019, @01:37AM (#795936) Homepage Journal

        The Astrology, for so long we had 7 planets. The 6 above. And 1 below. Easy. Then they came up with, oh let's try 8 or 9. And it was too much. Nobody could remember them all. Especially not the children. Big problem for the children, they learned the 7. Then when it's time for the Quiz, "oh, what are the 9 Planets?" So many kids crying over that one. So many killing themselves. So the folks that decide said it's too much, they said "we go back to 8, for the kids' sake." We went back to 8, the kids are happy, right? WRONG! Because they learned about the girls and the boys. Where, you're either a boy or a girl. And you don't have to pick, the grown ups picked that one for you. Very simple. But now they're doing the girl, the boy, the girl to boy, the boy to girl, the in between. So many. And it's too many for the children. They learned the 2, now it's very complicated. Too much for their young & tiny Brains. To where, they don't know what restroom to go to. They're standing there, trying to hold it in. And maybe they can hold it in. Or maybe they can't. Bad situation. So I made it much simpler for them. I said, let them go by what they were born as. You're born a girl, you go to the Girls Room. Your born a boy, Boys Room. Very simple. Very easy. Life is full of so many questions. Like, who are my Parents? Am I a girl or a boy? Where was I born? When was my Birth Day? Or, do I have children? How many boys and how many girls? How old are they? Are they American, can they be President (legally)? And, what are their names? Don't worry, folks. A very special Document answers all our questions -- Birth Certificate. We love Birth Certificate!!!

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday February 04 2019, @07:57PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday February 04 2019, @07:57PM (#796248) Journal

    Nonsense. The trouble is women are peeing wrong. They ought to train themselves to pee standing up and shake when they're done, the way men do.

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    Washington DC delenda est.