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From: vickyb@rosevax.UUCP (Vicky)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: public restrooms
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 14:08:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 14:08:56 1986
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>>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).
>
>Gee, I thought that it was because women always seem to go to the
>wc in groups...   Silly me!
>-- 
>Andrew Scott Beals	(member of HASA - A and S divisions)
>bandy@lll-crg.arpa	{ihnp4,seismo,ll-xn,ptsfa,pyramid}!lll-crg!bandy
>LLNL, P.O. Box 808, Mailstop L-419, Livermore CA 94550 (415) 423-1948

	Actually, I think this is a silly issue to be debating.  I can speak
from experience when I say that very very seldom is the mens restroom larger
than the womens restroom anywhere.  I say I speak from experience because I
live approximately half my life as a man and half as a woman (I am a 
cross-dresser).  The problem I have noticed in the womens restrooms vs the mens
restrooms is that it just plain takes women longer to do the same job than it
does men.  They usually have more facilities, but it takes longer and YES they
do go in groups!!  The thing I have always bitched about more is the fact that
many places seem to think men do not care about their appearance.  I say this
because I'll go somewhere and the womens restroom is clean and well equipped,
but the next time I go there, the mens restroom has NO mirrors and sinks with
spring-loaded faucets that won't stay on long enough to wash your hands!!

					Vicky Burton

	These ideas are totally mine and no one elses and I thought of
	them all by myself, yes I did!