saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (06/14/84)
Women do take longer to go to the bathroom, but they also have to go more often
than men. I was told at one point that our bladders, even though they are the
same size as men's, tend to feel full faster because of pressure from the uterus
Whether this is true, I don't know, but I noticed that my women friends and I
certainly go to the bathroom more frequently than men.
The Kitchener Center in the Square auditorium (which is fairly new) has
3 women bathrooms/ 1 men. At intermission the lines for each bathroom are
about the same length. It looks like they got their ratios right.
Sophie Quigley
...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigleyagust@spuxll.UUCP (Agust K Gudmundsson) (06/14/84)
Womens also tend to have a higher occurence of bladder infections (cystitis) than men. I'm not sure why or in what ratio but that does seem to be the case. This insight came about from reading up on the subject when my wife contracted an esspecially acute case of this some years back. Icelandic Cowboy Agust K. G. PS Then again maybe women go to the bathrooms so often to talk to the fish who leave their bicycles outside. :+>.
cmgiuliani@watmath.UUCP (cmgiuliani) (06/15/84)
The differences that tend to exist between men's and women's bathrooms have
always baffled me. I became aware of such differences in residence. For one
thing, the bathrooms in the women's residences always had better quality
toilet tissue. Trivial but true. Also, women's shower facilities would
often consist of individual booths, while the men's were tiled rooms with
several shower heads. I noticed this same difference in showers in the
dressing rooms at the Theatre here at the University. What bugs me is how
somebody decides to make these different provisions.
Does an architect routinely design the men's showers to be different from
the women's? Is it obvious to the supplies clerk that women should have
softer bathroom tissue than men? What makes these people decide things
like this?
Incidently, this is not always to the women's advantage. At the theatre,
the space that provided for 4 shower heads in the men's dressing room only
held room for 2 individual booths in the women's.
Carlo @ the U of Waterloonessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (06/15/84)
The way to equality of bathrooms is to make them coed. There's no such thing as "seperate but equal". -- -Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?
tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter F. Barbee) (06/18/84)
This bathroom discussion has reminded me of an interesting situation, I'm not sure if it's discriminatory or not. Did you ever notice how the line at the women's john is longer than at the men's. This is especially true if fairly equal numbers of men and women are present. There are obvious reasons (basically women tend to take longer). Now the question; should the designers of a public building allocate more room for the women's johns? In some ways this is the same topic as pensions (not all ways, some- no need for flames), i.e. women and men are different and distinguishable, do we artificially force (or facilitate) equality. Maybe I've been glaring at the phoshor too long, Peter Barbee decvax-+-uw-beaver-+ ihnp4--+ allegra-+ ucbvax----lbl-csam-+--fluke!tron sun-+ ssc-vax-+
Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags@CS-Mordred.UUCP (06/19/84)
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houxe.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Message-ID: <324@pucc-i> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 15:02:35 EDT ie.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 10 > The way to equality of bathrooms is to make them coed. There's no such > thing as "seperate but equal". Now you've done it. You just killed ERA for another 20 years. (Anyone notice that busses and airplanes already have coed bathrooms?) -- Dave Seaman "My hovercraft is full of eels." ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags
ags@pucc-i (Seaman) (06/19/84)
> The way to equality of bathrooms is to make them coed. There's no such > thing as "seperate but equal". Now you've done it. You just killed ERA for another 20 years. (Anyone notice that busses and airplanes already have coed bathrooms?) -- Dave Seaman "My hovercraft is full of eels." ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags
afo@pucc-k (sefton) (06/20/84)
>(anyone notice that busses and airplanes already have coed bathrooms?)
Are the bathrooms at your home *not* coed?
Laurie
pucc-k:afocmgiuliani@watmath.UUCP (cmgiuliani) (06/21/84)
Yet another pecularity:
On the canadian LRC trains, each car has two bathrooms -- one marked with
the symbols of both a man and a woman (presumably OR, not AND :-) and the
other marked only as a women's.
Carlo @ the U of Waterloosaquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (06/21/84)
From cmgiuliani >Yet another pecularity: > > On the canadian LRC trains, each car has two bathrooms -- one marked with > the symbols of both a man and a woman (presumably OR, not AND :-) and the > other marked only as a women's. > > Carlo @ the U of Waterloo > Yeah, and I checked both types out a few days ago. There is not difference between the two except that the one with the two symbols is twice as big as the one with one symbol. Maybe they are for a man AND a woman after all (-: Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley
sunny@decwrl.UUCP (06/22/84)
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Message-ID: <1292@sun.uucp> Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 04:45:40 EDT Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:18:01 EDT ie.UUCP> <324@pucc-i> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 3 you seem to not see the difference which I see between co-ed and single-user. Busses and Planes do *not* have co-ed bathrooms. [ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4]!sun!sunny (Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems)
nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (06/23/84)
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houxe.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Message-ID: <2233@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 23:58:27 EDT ie.UUCP> <324@pucc-i> <1292@sun.uucp> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 > From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) > you seem to not see the difference which I see between co-ed and > single-user. Busses and Planes do *not* have co-ed bathrooms. Coedness and single-userness are orthogonal properties. Coed single-user bathrooms are fair. Any type of segregated bathroom system is unfair. Busses and planes often have coed single-user bathrooms. Sometimes they have segregated single-user bathrooms. Why in the world anyone would segregate single-user bathrooms is beyond me! But they even do it in my dorm during the summer when fuddy-duddy industry people room there to take courses at MIT. -- -Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (06/27/84)
>> (Anyone notice that busses and airplanes already have coed bathrooms?)
So are many bathrooms for the handicapped.