Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!CSvax:Pucc-H:aeq
From: CSvax:Pucc-H:aeq@pur-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Public Restrooms (semi-flame)
Message-ID: <260@pucc-h>
Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 16:38:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.260
Posted: Tue Aug 30 16:38:20 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Aug-83 23:45:00 EDT
References: <335@ucbcad.UUCP>
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Lines: 22

Ken Arnold recently posted a complaint about the sameness in size, and thus
the difference in queue lengths, between men's and women's restrooms.
On the other hand, one complaint I could make about some public restrooms
(e.g. at Poison Made Useful--er, Purdue Memorial Union) is that the anterooms
of many "powder" rooms are little lounges wherein ladies may lie down or at
least sit down and rest (how do I know this? because the doors into these
comfortable anterooms are often left open, since nothing "indecent" is
revealed), whereas the anterooms of men's rooms are tiny, grim, unfurnished
cubicles, whose sole purpose seems to be to ensure that no woman peeks into
the men's room.  This must be a leftover of the days when women went about
laced up in corsets, burdened with great quantities of clothing, and therefore
exceedingly likely to be fatigued or even to faint.  Inasmuch as women no
longer go about encased from head to foot, but rather (at this season) are
frequently no more than lightly wrapped from below shoulders to above thighs,
this discrimination seems quite outdated.  Men get just as tired as women
(though I suspect the menstrual period is an exception to this); why don't
we have similar places provided to just get off our feet (especially mine,
which are flat) for a few minutes?  I mean, if it's called a restroom, it
ought to be a place where we can rest all of us, not just our bladders or
intestines!

-- Jeff Sargent/pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq