The Star - Last week we were in Venice, at St. Mark’s Square, visiting the famous Doge’s Palace. After appreciating the many elaborate rooms and masterpieces of art, it was time to experience one of its more practical attractions, the bathroom. It was an open unisex area, with common sinks for handwashing, and two stalls for men and two for women. While men breezed in and out of their half, at least 10 women stood waiting in line....For as long as there have been specific places designated as the right place to go, and that too as the right place for women to go, there has been a line of anxious women. Now, lineups outside women’s bathrooms in public places are common the world over, from Calgary’s Stampede grounds and Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall to New Delhi’s Habitat Centre. This phenomenon is matched only by men hanging about outside the women’s bathroom, waiting for their female companions. “Women use the bathroom more than men. They spend more time in them, too. These must be little-understood truths; otherwise, there would be twice as many ladies’ bathrooms as men’s.”Several places have already recognized the need for potty parity. States such as New York, Virginia, Texas and California have passed a bathroom equity bill, demanding a 2 to 1 ratio of women’s toilets in public places. Hong Kong and Singapore also have such laws.
Umm, or you could quit whining, chatting, and doing whatever the hell else you guys are doing in there and get the hell out...You know why guys are quick in the bathroom? Because in general, public bathrooms are disgusting...we're not trying to make friends in their while jiggling our johnsons for a few extra shakes while getting your back story, not happening. We're certainly not killing time on the stall after some bro before us just dropped a heater while we were on-deck.
By the same right, I've seen fathers walk their kids into the the bathroom, kid takes a piss and they're gone...mother takes their kid into the bathroom and I'd swear there's a freaking maze behind that door.
