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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: 1, Troll) by darkfeline on Monday February 04 2019, @06:09AM (2 children)
I understand you're biased toward defending your own sex, but the real reason is just that women feel entitled.
I have read multiple accounts that women can pee standing up (example https://www.yourtango.com/2016290905/womans-guide-pee-standing-up-like-man) [yourtango.com] There are also many products assisting women in peeing while standing, and having done some basic research reading reviews as if I were to buy one, there are quite a few highly rated products.
And there are female urinals that provide the same convenience as male urinals. The reason they aren't adopted are social. Women don't use them even if installed. They would rather wait in long lines for stalls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_urinal [wikipedia.org]
So this problem is entirely self inflicted. Not by any single woman, but socially women would rather wait in long lines for a stall than use a urinal. So the solution is clearly to reduce facilities for men to accommodate the special needs of women.
> Sometimes we go in there just to take a few minutes to decompress.
It is hilarious and sad you can say that with a straight face. Because women are disrespectful in their use of public facilities, we should build more toilets for them? If a child steals candy from other children, we reward them with more candy?
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 04 2019, @06:54PM (1 child)
Such entitlement! I also feel entitled to NOT insert some prosthetic device up my pee hole in order to relieve myself.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:28AM
It looks like you missed the half about female urinals. Sure, you may be entitled to "NOT insert some prosthetic device up my pee hole" (ignoring the fact that many FUDs (female urination devices) don't require pee hole insertion, just as you may be entitled to not use female urinals while complaining about long lines waiting for stalls. You sure as hell aren't entitled to not being judged for it though.
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