ingres@ucbcad.UUCP (08/28/83)
#R:sdchema:-82000:ucbcad:26500001:000:1975 ucbcad!ingres Aug 25 23:00:00 1983 I don't understand. I am to be considered rude if I leave the warm seat up. Assuming it to be equally easy to develop the habit of always leaving the warm seat down and to develop the habit of looking before sitting, let us look at the situations First, males are to always leave the warm seat down; I walk into the bathroom. If I am to urinate, I lift the warm seat, do so, and replace it. That is two motions. If I wish to defecate, I do nothing. In either case, if I were a woman, I would do nothing. Second, the warm seat is left where it was last; I walk into the bathroom. If the warm seat is not where I need it, I place it there. Maximum of one motion per person. Now, note that second description carefully. Notice anything interesting? There is no "If I am a man I do one thing; if I am a woman I do another". Amazing, isn't it? Everyone takes responsibility for their own needs. To say that men should leave it properly for women stinks of opening doors for healthy females and the like. It is rank chivalry, and I see no reason to support it. Ken Arnold P.S. On a related topic, I have no idea why people put up with the public restroom situation the way it is. I mean, why are public restrooms always allocated with a space ration of 1:1? Since women need more space per person (a urinal is smaller than a toilet) and usually need (or at least take) more time, lines will form at the women's restroom long before they form at the men's. Anyone who has ever waited for someone outside a restroom will have noticed this, and (see above) more men than women are doing the waiting. Yet it has never occurred to the mostly male architectural profession to change this principle. Now, isn't that stupid? I, for one, am sick of having to wait for my leman because of this, so I can only imagine how sick a woman would be of having to not only wait, but wait while she needs to go to the bathroom. Why isn't something DONE about this?