Posted on 05/12/2010 7:37:51 AM PDT by navysealdad
Congress is looking to prevent women's rights from going down the toilet -- literally. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold hearings Wednesday on the "Potty Parity Act," a bill that seeks to address the shoddy restroom facilities for women in federal buildings. The bill would require any federal building constructed for public use to have similar toilets in women's and men's restrooms.
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Further evidence that this country is going down the crapper.
Good to see they are looking into important things like this and doing away with desserts!
Are you kidding me? THIS is what the freaking MORONS in the United States CONgre$$ find to be important business?
These "people" have to go -- NOW!
“...to have similar toilets in women’s and men’s restrooms.”
But women can’t pee in urinals.
Potty parity laws are inherently discriminatory. Rather than requirign an EQUAL number of facilities, they mandate more facilities for women.
Hold it like everybody else.
“similar toilets in women’s and men’s restrooms”
So urinals is women rooms?
Urinals in the ladies’?
It is so refreshing to know that these people have nothing else to do but worry about the restrooms, naming a Post Office after someone, etc, etc, etc. If a corporation operated this way they would go out of business.
“Good to see they are looking into important things like this”
Yes, now I understand entirely why they haven’t yet focused on the entitlements tsunami that threatens to bankrupt the country. I guess they have to tend to this really important stuff first.
When the U.S. declares bankruptcy, it will be of great comfort to know that at least we achieved potty parity, else all our subsequent years in the poor house (or being indentured servants to the Chinese) would be completely intolerable.
Typical example: a trucking company has 70 employees, 67 are men and 3 women work in the office. They set up a bathroom for the men with two stalls and four urinals. Guess what - there has to be “equality” for the women.
What do they do - they build a stall in the ladies room, and mount five urinals one on top of each other in a corner. Of course no one could use them, and since they are in the ladies room no one will use them. But “potty parity” has been achieved.
One more example of why Government should NOT be allowed to solve any problems. National defense and roads - they should stay the heck out of everything else.
Good to see the Republicans are on top of this (/sarc).
>>But women can’t pee in urinals<<
maybe it’s for “ladies” like Napolitano & Kagan
Okay. Lights in cafeteria - check. Bathroom renovation - check. Unemployment, domestic and international debt, terrorism, war, immigration - anything? I can see we are leaving the thorny matters until AFTER the elections.
The bill would require any federal building constructed for public use to have similar toilets in women’s and men’s restrooms.
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No, thanks, I am a woman, so I would have a terrible time climbing up to use those little sinks on the wall that the menfolk use.
While they're worrying about bathroom parity, they don't have their hands in my pocket.
While they're at it, they might spend a few weeks debating the names of some post offices.
Any input from the Banking Queen?
Don't be so sure about that. In Austin, this stupid law will increase your finish out costs for a commercial space by several thousand dollars - sometimes as much as 10-20k.
The part that gets me the maddest is the origin of this mess. Some city council woman went to a concert and noticed the lines were longer for the lady's room than the men's room. She immediately went on a crusade for “potty parity”. And she succeeded. Well she succeeded in raising the cost of doing business.
Seems as though they exempted most government buildings. The place where all this started (I think it was the Frank Irwin Center) still has much longer lines for the women's room than the men's room. But somewheres out there is an idiot moonbat still taking credit for solving this “injustice”.
The plan is probably to eliminate urinals, so that the bathrooms are all the same - I guess to reduce costs. I see more and more unisex bathrooms.
Check out the “Johnie-Lift” (http://www.johnielift.com) - a toilet seat handle. At least it may reduce the arguments between men and womes about leaving the seat up or down. And it reduces the “EEEWWWW” factor.
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