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From: Muffy@arisia.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: public restrooms - women's smaller than men's?
Message-ID: <1398@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 13:04:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  9 13:04:15 1986
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In article <1098@sunybcs.UUCP> ugeileen@gort.UUCP (Eileen McGowan) writes:
>In article <6541@lll-crg.ARpA> bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
>>>..........-- 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!
>
>	A good number of women go into the women's room to fix their
>   hair and makeup, and spend lots of time doing it......"hence the
>   lineups" 

I don't "go in groups," but I usually take a book along.  You see, there's
this long line in the bathroom, and I get really bored with just standing
there, so I like to have something to do.  I suspect that this is the 
motivation behind "going in groups"...at least then you have someone to
talk to while you wait in those long lines.  Which are of course made 
longer by the group you just came in with.  I don't think that fixing
hair and makeup (what's that?) has any effect on the lines for the stalls.

                       Muffy

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