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| OK, you men keep making decisions for women | |
| Posted by: | Ann 03:43 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Odd behavior in theater restroom - Stagebuff718 12:58 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Since you know and can judge them much better than they know themselves. You can read this thread pretty much right along gender lines. (and for the record, I rarely ever go to the bathroom at the theater - but I know many who can barely make it to intermission.) | |
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| re: OK, you men keep making decisions for women | |
| Posted by: | Sam890 05:23 am EST 12/22/15 |
| In reply to: | OK, you men keep making decisions for women - Ann 03:43 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Well said, Ann I personally hate public toilets and always find it uncomfortable - it really doesn't matter to me what the person in the next cubicle has between their legs. I hate urinals (pissing up against a wall along with a bunch of men seems to primitive). I've noticed a lot of (particularly younger) men would prefer to wait and use a cubicle. 'Stage fright' at the urinal also seems particularly common | |
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| re: OK, you men keep making decisions for women | |
| Posted by: | Stagebuff718 04:09 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | OK, you men keep making decisions for women - Ann 03:43 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Your suggestion that this issue is about paternalism is silly. I don't pretend to know women any better than they do. What I *do* know is that as a man I want privacy in my restroom that's marked "Men." Women have a designated restroom and should use that. And of course we divide along gender lines! It's about women using men's bathrooms, and the incidental parallel someone brought up of whether a man would have a similar right to walk into a women's room. Incidentally, regardless of your personal knowledge of people using restrooms at the theater, I suspect that the same percentages of people had to hold themselves in all the past years when men went to the men's room and women to the women's room. | |
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| re: OK, you men keep making decisions for women | |
| Posted by: | Ann 04:59 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: OK, you men keep making decisions for women - Stagebuff718 04:09 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Well, a lot of this thread is about people decided who is feeling entitled. And it's possible there are more women than men at many Broadway shows these days (and the majority of women do use the women's rest room). | |
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| Time machine?!? | |
| Posted by: | frankm 04:48 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: OK, you men keep making decisions for women - Stagebuff718 04:09 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Did the redesign of All That Chat entail a trip in a time machine? We seem to have landed in the world circa 1955 or so... you know, a time when men were men and women were women and they all knew where to pee! | |
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| re: Time machine?!? | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 04:50 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | Time machine?!? - frankm 04:48 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Even in "Urinetown", one knew which john line to join! | |
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| PlayWiz...Future/Past...not the same thing. | |
| Posted by: | frankm 07:47 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Time machine?!? - PlayWiz 04:50 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| Urinetown takes place in the future. The post I was referring to was a blast from the past... | |
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| In H.G. Wells "The Time Machine" | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 11:11 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| In reply to: | PlayWiz...Future/Past...not the same thing. - frankm 07:47 pm EST 12/21/15 |
| it travels both ways, to the past and to the future. Things change, sometimes reverting back to how things were as well. But I get your drift. :) | |
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