dillon wrote:...Additionally, have you ever studied restroom lines in public event spaces? Women have to wait in inordinately long lines, presumably because they either need to go more frequently or their restroom operations take longer. (Or perhaps they exercise better sanitation standards than men, like actually using soap.) Why should they not be able to also use the men's restrooms, which have far shorter and faster-moving lines?
Modern convention centers and arenas generally hit on the correct number of women's stalls, men's stalls, and urinals and so the lines for each stay about even.
The breakdown of the attendees can, of course, still make a difference. I was once at a software development conference where over 90% of the attendees were men. The line to the men's room was long, the line to the women's room was non-existent, and the women were loving it.
Women
can pee standing up, although not so conveniently as men. One technique involves the use of a specially-shaped funnel in exactly the way you'd expect. The other involves holding back the lips and then starting and stopping the flow sharply. The shower is a good place to practice this. But these techniques are more often used outdoors (as when hiking or hunting) than indoors.
I don't find pulling up the front of my skirt and pulling down my tights and briefs any less convenient than threading myself through flies in my briefs and pants. Pulling up tights after a sitting episode is an extra task, but not having to unbelt, unzip, zip, and belt saves a task, so I rate the convenience about even.
I have no compunctions about standing skirted at a urinal unless my skirt is short and tight enough that pulling up the front enough pulls the back up too far. So in those situations I use a stall.
This is getting to be a weird thread, eh?
Courage, conviction, nerve, verve, dash, panache, guts, nuts, balls, gall, élan, stones, whatever. Get some and get skirted.
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