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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on May 12, 2010, 12:08:22 PM
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Terrorism, economy... no... bathrooms.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/11/congress-examine-restroom-inequalities-federal-buildings/?test=latestnews
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Men may still be left holding their peanuts at the ballpark while waiting for their dates in the ladies room, but a House panel on Wednesday was considering whether to rectify the disparity in wait times for the loo in federal buildings.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings Wednesday on the "Potty Parity Act," a bill that seeks to address the unequal number of restroom facilities for women in federal buildings by requiring at least a 1-to-1 ratio for toilets, including urinals, in women's and men's restrooms.
Supporters of the bill say women forced to wait in long restroom lines are at risk of health issues, including abdominal pain, cystitis and other urinary tract infections.
"A lot of times people, when I dealt with this bill, called it 'potty parity.' They made jokes," said Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., who proposed similar legislation as a state lawmaker that was enacted in the 1990s.
"The fact is, it's not a joke. Not only is it not a joke to women, it's not a joke to men who go with the women who have to wait while they're standing in line," he said. "It's also politically very popular. It's the right thing to do and it's catching up with the cultural lag in our society."
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Even if there was "potty parity", women would still wait longer than men. It's just the way it goes.
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I went to the opening game of the "New" Solider Field...a Monday night game against the Packers. They initially over-corrected on the amount of bathroom parity. I waited about half of the second quarter waiting to use the facilities, meanwhile the women's restrooms were plentiful. I think they partially fixed the matter by the second home game.
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We need to start training females at an early age how to use the restroom by themselves .... so it doesn't take two of them for one of them to use the restroom.
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We need to start training females at an early age how to use the restroom by themselves .... so it doesn't take two of them for one of them to use the restroom.
We go to the bathroom in pairs, or packs, so we can gossip about the relative merits/demerits of you dudes. :tongue: