![]() There are a few trees nearby, but not many and not all that close. Fortunately, there are six gender-neutral bathrooms and one men’s room within a few minutes’ walk, so most of the time an elderly person such as myself can find a place that his bladder is demanding to use. The ladies’ room next to it had, I was informed, two water closets and two sinks, replaced by one each. The nearest men’s room, for example, had one toilet in a stall, one urinal, and two sinks. This was a good idea, and the bathrooms are now much more accessible for people with disabilities, but it did cut down the number of available water closets and urinals. My employer, for reasons including a desire to make transgender people feel welcome, changed a lot of the bathrooms from gender-specific to ones for single users of any gender. ![]() I like her idea of multi-user stalls with doors that go all the way to the floor and don’t have a large gap on either side. ![]() If his cartoon doesn’t make you laugh, read this news story about the rightwing fascisti who, having been voted off their local school board by the decent people, tried to give their superintendent-ally a $700,000 golden parachute, after costing local taxpayers $1.5 million in ridiculous lawsuits.īoy, has Santa got a load of coal for them! Which makes me love Clay Bennett’s use of the little monster as a stand-in for the Moms For Hate or whatever they call themselves. It’s like filling an Advent calendar with ex-lax. Not only did she let us figure it out for ourselves, but she certainly didn’t use Santa as a threat, and wit all doo respeck to Wanda MacPherson, when you hit that level, you’ve already lost the game.Įlf on the Shelf, though, takes bad parenting to a thermonuclear stage, combining guilt and threats with dishonesty by moving the damn thing around for weeks to create the impression that it’s alive. My mother was traumatized when she learned about Santa, less, I think, because she needed him to be real than by the fact that she’d been lied to by people she loved and trusted.Īs a result, any questions from us, for instance, about how he could come down the chimney when we didn’t have a fireplace were answered with “Well, what do you think?” The problem is not the code, according to Jennifer Hendricks, a professor at the Colorado University Law School, but hidebound, impractical interpretation of the code by local bureaucrats, and her paper on the topic is a great deal more entertaining than you might expect. It’s all very interesting, but it hasn’t solved the problem of women standing in long lines while men don’t. I have no idea what these legislators’ secretarial staff was supposed to do for all those years, though I suppose when it was built, they were mostly male as well.īut times have changed, and the - I kid you not - American Restroom Association has this rundown on the issue of potty parity. Yet, as Mike Baldwin’s nun points out, women often find a lack of potty parity, and our leaders are greatly to blame: Pat Schroeder raised the issue as a young Congressional rep back in the early 70s because the Capitol was built with the assumption that no women would need a water closet. I use the term “water closet” because that’s what toilets are called in the International Building Code, which brings us to Cornered, because until relatively recently, there was no obligation under the IBC for public buildings to have restrooms for women.Īnd I use the term “restroom” as a euphemism based on stores at the turn of the 20th century which not only chose to provide facilities for women but fixed them up with couches, suggesting that there were certain times a woman might feel the need to get off her feet as well as to use the water closet. But I don’t recall so much as a hint of a water closet in any of those shots. ![]() As far as I can recall, Arctic Circle is correct that there were no toilets in old movies, Alex Hallatt being careful to say “toilet” and not “bathroom,” since there were plenty of scenes of people shaving or applying makeup at sinks.
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