Ravenwood - 06/08/05 07:00 AM
The New York Daily News reports that Mayor Bloomberg "signed the so-called 'potty parity' bill yesterday, requiring more women's toilets in newly built arenas, bars, convention halls and movie theaters." Sounds like there is a toilet gap between men and women. But then you find out that parity no longer means equality.
For every toilet in the men's room, there must be two in the women's, according to the new law.So they are striving for equal results rather than equal treatment. Women are not as advanced as men when it comes to their urinary tasks, so we get less bathrooms now. Don't think that this will necessarily increase the number of women's facilities. This is like Title IX for bathrooms, and the law of unintendend consequences will mean less men's facilities instead of more women's. If a bar owner has enough money for 6 toilets, he's going to give 2 to the men and 4 to the women to be compliant, rather than break his budget by increasing that number to 9 (3 men and 6 women). Adding that 3rd stall for men puts him 50% over budget.
Our only saving grace will be if the infamous "pee trough" counts as one stall.
The law will apply to some renovated buildings as well.
Category: Oddities
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Being English, I thought you guys used the free market thing to sort this sort of nonsense out. You know; go to a place, queue forever for 1 stinking stall, never go back.
Over here we've got a few "unique" places that have unisex facilities. These have a common area with hand basins etc and individual stalls for either male or female use. This feels wierd but works quite well, question is how's your mayor and his newly appointed inspecter of toilets going to handle that one?
Posted by: Chris at June 8, 2005 9:41 AMAs far as equity is concerned, I'd be happy if builders made one female stall for every stall or urinal, so that if the men's room has 1 stall and 2 urinals, the women's room has 3 stalls.
BTW, when my sweetie and I get a house, I have every intention of having at least one urinal put in for him.
Posted by: Lornkanaga at June 8, 2005 11:42 AMThose NY'ers are just a bunch of potty animals.
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