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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Do They All Have to Have Couches Too?New York City has passed a law requiring public venues to have more women's bathrooms (H/T to The Agitator):
First of all, I find it interesting that having twice as many women's restrooms as men's is considered to provide equality. Maybe it's the fact that I had to take 7 trimesters of math at MSOE... but I would think equality would mean a 1-1 ratio. At least a few New Yorker's are sensible:
Maybe if women didn't go to the bathroom in packs, then this could be avoided. It's not a social occasion ladies... it's a bodily function. You don't see couches in a men's room do you?
Is it so much a question of our "going to the ladies' room in packs" as it is one of our not being able to pee standing up (on the sides of buildings, in bushes, whereever) so that we need different facilities to accomodate us than males? That minor difference aside, I don't know that this sort of legislation's going to be anything more than a drain on businesses - much like the ADA regs that were required on a federal level years ago.
Aah, well - I'm from Boston where guys very rarely buy drinks for girls. I guess the pack mentality thing must be a regional thing based on that.
I believe that, traditionally, the couches in women's restrooms were to accomodate breast-feeding mothers.
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