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From: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: public restrooms
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 15:32:14 EDT
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Reply-To: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
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>>This article was (I assume) meant to be facetious, but I should point
>>out that this has been done in various places, notably some dorms and
>>office/classroom buildings at Univ. of Calif., Berkeley while I was
>>there in the mid-70's, with no great uproar, and worked quite well.
>
And in the 80's.  Toilet stalls posed little problem, but I've heard of
cases where men are doing their business in the urinals, when a woman would
walk in, and they'd say hi to each other, which is fine, as long as he
doesn't forget what he's doing and turns around  :-).

>It might also be the solution to one of the pettier forms of sex
>discrimination -- the imbalance between the public restrooms provided
>for men (nearly always adequate) and those provided for women (very
>often inadequate -- hence the lineups for women's rooms at theatres,
>concert halls, stadiums and so on).

I thought the imbalance was in the size of women's bladders.  I guess making
more facilities for women than for men would solve that imbalance.  Perhaps
having three bathrooms  -- men's, women's, and either would help solve the
problem for more liberal-minding people.

-- 
                                             Alan Steinberg
                                             textronix!cae780!alan

Helllp, Mr. Wizarrrrd!  I don't want to be a programmer anymore!