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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/
(Score: 5, Informative) by crb3 on Monday February 04 2019, @02:40AM (1 child)
>Men who "just shake it a bit" have piss in their underwear
As we get older, our plumbing loses its tautness and elasticity, and then, like a garden hose that dribbles a bit after the faucet's turned off, we've got a horizontal standpipe holding enough for a short racing-stripe down one pant-leg. The fix is to run a thumb or finger along underneath, inside or outside your pants, starting right from where the piping comes out of the prostate, to flatten the tubing and expel what's stored, before you put it away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @08:33AM
No karma to give, but thanks for this. I’m reaching an age where the dribble-ness is getting annoying. Looking forward to trying this next time.