While Eric is busily posting away on the fate of civilization, I ponder a more trivial, but albeit more complicated subject, to wit Potty Parity. I’ll let the girls have the floor. Leading off, Soraya Chemaly, Time:
Long lines for women’s restrooms are the result of a history that favors men’s bodies
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Women aren’t standing in lines because we bond over toilet paper pattern or because we’re narcissistic and vain. We’re standing in line because our bodies, like those of trans and queer people, have been historically shamed, ignored, and deemed unworthy of care and acknowledgement. We shouldn’t have to wait or postpone having these needs fairly met in public space.
Next up, Kemberlee Kaye, Legal Insurrection:
I for one, stand in ardent opposition to the “right to pee” movement. No offense, men. Y’all are great, wonderful, amazing creatures, but you’re also gross. Sharing a bathroom with your kind at home is one thing, but being forced to share the public john with the whole lot of you? That is cause for protest.
And clean-up, Dana, Patterico’s Pontifications:
Look, Ms. Chemalya, we’re waiting in line because women take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to use a restroom. It’s not just a zip-in, zip-out experience. It’s a use the facility, wash your hands, do your makeup, fix your hair, gab with your friend who went to the restroom with you social event. Of course there is a line!
Note: Chemalya ignores that middle-aged men and older face their own biological difficulties which can cause lines at public restrooms for men as well.
Commentary: I think Chemelya’s ilk, the perpetually aggravated feminist are doomed to fail. They get peeved by anything and everything, and are devoid any sense of humor.
Alas poor Soraya, there is simply no right to pee, rather only a biological need. However unless Soraya wants to water a tree, she needs a place to pee, which is a product of human endeavor, and quite apt have been a male endeavor.
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