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1. It is crazy this is still going on. I remember rock concerts where the lines were so long at women's restroom ...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:08 AM

Jul 26

... and so short at the men's. Simple reason: The men's and the women's each had two or three toilets, but the men also had 10 or so urinals.

That was the early sixties and we got used to a line of women standing to get into the men's. Sixty years later and women still have to deal with restrooms designed and layed out by men.

There were devices (from paper back in the day) like this:

https://scheels.scene7.com/is/image/Scheels/09492243296?wid=500&hei=500

But this is no solution.

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It is crazy this is still going on. I remember rock concerts where the lines were so long at women's restroom ... marble falls Jul 26 #1

I appreciate you are even aware of the problem, marble falls. Diamond_Dog Jul 26 #3

They were a dime in the gent's, too. In the right place one might have been known to slide himself under the door. marble falls Jul 27 #6

The situation is backward and very unfair to women, to be sure. Diamond_Dog Jul 26 #2

It doesn't have to be so hard HariSeldon Jul 26 #4

Are there any locked stalls in the men's bathrooms? If so, I'd use the closest one tulipsandroses Jul 26 #5