Latest / Privycast / Ep. 160 Potty Parity (Women's Day 2025)
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- 0:00>> Hunter Hoover: But what these employers found is that when they employed
- 0:03women, and thus had to have a bathroom space
- 0:06for women,
- 0:09they had to use it. That
- 0:12that space came with
- 0:15a greater cost to the
- 0:17company.
- 0:21Um, welcome back to Privy. Privy is
- 0:24a podcast about bathrooms
- 0:26recorded from my home
- 0:29bathroom. I'm your host, Hunter
- 0:31Hoover, and I love bathrooms.
- 0:35Welcome back, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us this
- 0:37time. Uh, and welcome back.
- 0:41Thanks for joining me in this bathroom space. You know, normally
- 0:43it's. It's pretty intimate in here.
- 0:46Um, and it might not. You might
- 0:49hear bathroom space. You'd be like, well, I didn't. Wait a minute. What's
- 0:52going on? Yes, every episode is recorded from a bathroom.
- 0:55I don't say this that often. It's something that maybe I should
- 0:57remind people about more. But every
- 1:00episode of this podcast has been recorded
- 1:03and will be recorded from a bathroom.
- 1:06Now, it might not always be my home bathroom,
- 1:09but I'm always in a bathroom. And
- 1:1299% of those episodes, I'm seated
- 1:15on a toilet. That's
- 1:17facts.
- 1:20Last year, we had a couple of episodes
- 1:23that. That are going to be important as it relates to the
- 1:26bathroom. But a little update. There was a hot
- 1:28minute there where I didn't have access to a bathroom at work.
- 1:31I mean, I did, but I had to work really hard for it. And I felt like it
- 1:34was unfair based on how hard I had to work.
- 1:37Um, some jack wagon had tried to flush, probably
- 1:40a vape that these kids are always flushing vapes in these
- 1:43toilets. Uh, and they had to redo
- 1:46a bunch of plumbing. And so they just took the men's bathroom
- 1:49just straight out of the thing. Like, there's just
- 1:52no men's bathroom for a second. No men's toilet.
- 1:55And's why I was scavenging for a bathroom. I was like, I'm about
- 1:58to just hit a. I'm about to just hit a bucket, you
- 2:00know, and, um, you
- 2:03know, we're back. We've got. We got some bathroom
- 2:06y. We're back. That's what, you
- 2:09know, the bathroom is. Fixed it. We're good.
- 2:11But my bathrooming has been semi
- 2:14regular. Uh, I will say I
- 2:17noted last time the Shamrock Shake. I think the
- 2:20Shamrock Shake does something wild to a man's bathroom.
- 2:23Me, because
- 2:26I drank a shamrock shank and I had the stinkiest.
- 2:29I had the stinkiest farts. And,
- 2:32like, it was to the point where Ana was threatening to, like,
- 2:35change sheets mid. Mid getting
- 2:38ready for bedtime. Like, it's pretty
- 2:41bad. Just saying. But it happens, you know?
- 2:44Jamrock Shake, Uncle O Grimcy does it dirty
- 2:47to us sometimes. And that's just how we are.
- 2:51Last year we had a couple of episodes that I'm going to
- 2:54tell you are going to be important for our
- 2:57conversations today. If
- 3:00you need to, or if you want to go seek out these
- 3:02episodes, they're in our, uh, back catalog.
- 3:05First we discussed sex separated
- 3:08bathrooms. And in that episode
- 3:11we looked at the history of sex
- 3:14separated bathrooms in the United States.
- 3:17In short, we've been separating bathrooms on
- 3:20the lines of men and women as long as men and women
- 3:23have had to be interacting in the same spaces
- 3:26together. It's almost like maybe it's
- 3:28supposed to be that way.
- 3:31We also looked at the history of feminine
- 3:34hygiene in recognition
- 3:36of International Women's Day last
- 3:39year. Well, I should tell
- 3:41you, almost a full year
- 3:44has passed and that means
- 3:47that it's time to observe
- 3:50International Women's Day again.
- 3:53And I gotta say, now that it
- 3:56feels like we're getting a bit closer here in America
- 3:59to like, understanding a lot of this, it
- 4:02could be good to look at some ground rules
- 4:05related to the cultural phenomenon of these
- 4:08bathrooms being separated.
- 4:11What sort of ground rules should there
- 4:14be for separating bathrooms?
- 4:17And if there
- 4:20should be some, how do we know how
- 4:23far those rules should extend?
- 4:26And these concerns about
- 4:29fairness and public spaces
- 4:32introduces a new phenomenon, one
- 4:35which you would think wouldn't need to
- 4:38be in our world. But it's the
- 4:41idea of potty parody
- 4:44we're going to be looking at. Ah, potty parody this week.
- 4:54I want to know, when I say the word parody, I
- 4:57don't mean like, like scary movie
- 5:003 parody where we're like, making fun of
- 5:03stuff. It's parity, T, P,
- 5:06A, R, I, T, Y. And, and
- 5:08it's another way of just saying equal.
- 5:12Now, uh, equality, uh, is a
- 5:15word. So I wonder if we've just picked
- 5:17the potty parity for the alliteration. If
- 5:20you have parity in something,
- 5:23it means that you have
- 5:26equality or they are equal in what
- 5:28they offer or what they, um,
- 5:31say that they offer.
- 5:34When you think of someone facing
- 5:37disparity, it is related in
- 5:40that they are facing something that does not treat
- 5:43them equal to someone or something
- 5:46else. This is generally
- 5:48not a great thing, disparity.
- 5:51But here's a reminder.
- 5:54Equal does not mean the
- 5:56same, and it does not seek to
- 5:59make people the same.
- 6:02And so amongst many sectors
- 6:05in facets of life, parity
- 6:08is something which is often good
- 6:11to strive for in theory,
- 6:14but can become more difficult the more
- 6:16complex things become in our
- 6:19culture and society.
- 6:22It's going to be, um, important to note in
- 6:25our conversations about parity,
- 6:28the difference between equality and
- 6:31equity to be equal
- 6:33or equality is more
- 6:36concerned with making sure everyone has an equal
- 6:39chance or opportunity for something.
- 6:42Equity is, is more
- 6:45concerned with making sure that everyone
- 6:47has the same outcomes.
- 6:50And that sounds good, except
- 6:53sometimes equity comes at
- 6:56the cost of equality and
- 6:59imposes itself on others in order to
- 7:02obtain it. This has been a problem
- 7:05that has been going on since kids were kids
- 7:08and decided to argue about whether something was fair or
- 7:11not. So yeah,
- 7:14parity. But today on Privy, we're
- 7:17going to look at parity specifically as it relates to the
- 7:20bathroom and in our culture.
- 7:23How is that tied up to the idea of equal
- 7:26access in bathrooms specifically for
- 7:29women? As is noted,
- 7:31the history of women's bathrooms doesn't
- 7:34go back too terribly long.
- 7:38That's mostly because the idea
- 7:41of a women's bathroom didn't really
- 7:43come to public until there were public
- 7:46bathrooms. Um, and even then they only started
- 7:49around the 1800s. Before then,
- 7:52women just were expected to do their business at
- 7:55home and they were not seen in the
- 7:58public life and in the public sphere as often
- 8:01as would necessitate them having a bathroom,
- 8:04let alone their own bathroom.
- 8:06So it wasn't
- 8:09until there was these public bathrooms that there was
- 8:12even on the radar. And even then the public
- 8:14bathrooms were more designed for men. They weren't designing
- 8:17them for women because women weren't out and about as
- 8:20often as in the mid-1800s
- 8:23and moving into the 1900s, especially as
- 8:26women began to enter the workforce,
- 8:29that the increase in need
- 8:32for bathroom spaces for women in
- 8:35these public or public adjacent
- 8:37settings became more prominent.
- 8:41Saloons and businesses prior to this had
- 8:44bathrooms for people to use, but they were generally
- 8:47a hole in the ground out back.
- 8:50I don't think there was a lot of ladies lining up to use
- 8:52that. Like I feel like they were smart enough to where they
- 8:55would just run home and use the 1.
- 9:04As women entered the workforce at the turn of the
- 9:0720th century, it became more and
- 9:10more clear
- 9:13if women are going to be employed
- 9:15alongside of men, they
- 9:18have got to have a place to go peeeee and
- 9:21poo poo that is not
- 9:24alongside of men.
- 9:28Plaza became more and more common to find
- 9:30women in public spaces and in
- 9:33spaces where men and women were expected
- 9:36to work and inhabit those
- 9:39spaces together,
- 9:43or as was sometimes the case
- 9:46in public spaces without men.
- 9:49It became clear
- 9:53we need to rethink these
- 9:55bathrooms. I have to tell you,
- 9:59if you go out and you go and try to learn a little
- 10:02bit, uh, for yourself about potty per. I would
- 10:04highly encourage you to do that
- 10:07because like every single
- 10:10article, like all of them, usually when you
- 10:13do a little peek behind the curtain here, usually when
- 10:16there's some research done for this show, you'll find
- 10:19a mixed, like, uh,
- 10:21cacophony of suggestions and
- 10:24opinions about
- 10:27a certain topic. And
- 10:30usually you kind of sift through those and you can kind of tell what's a
- 10:33fake and. And you do a little bit of like,
- 10:36sniffing around to figure out what's a good source
- 10:39and what's reliable.
- 10:41Rarely do you have the phenomenon that
- 10:44happened in the case of potty parody, which
- 10:47is all of the
- 10:50articles, like every of the articles
- 10:53mentioning potty parody discusses the
- 10:55fact that women shop a
- 10:58lot as a point
- 11:01of evidence
- 11:03in support for the need of potty
- 11:06parity. Now,
- 11:10in remembrance, um, an in
- 11:12observance of International
- 11:15Women's Day,
- 11:18I'm me, uh, your host here on
- 11:21the show Hunter Me.
- 11:24I'm not gonna say
- 11:27women shop more than men. I'm not going to
- 11:30say that. Uh, I don't say that.
- 11:33In fact, I refuse to
- 11:36say that women enjoy
- 11:38and seek out shopping
- 11:40experiences more often than men. I
- 11:43won't say it. I'm
- 11:46not going to say that women tend
- 11:49to like to spend money
- 11:52on clothes,
- 11:54bags, beauty
- 11:57products more often than men. I'm
- 12:00not, I'm not going to say that.
- 12:03I don't say it. And I didn't say it
- 12:07explicitly. The Internet did say it
- 12:10though, time and time again in these articles. Not
- 12:12me. I'm not saying that.
- 12:17I defite. If I was going to speak about
- 12:20the shopping habits of women, I
- 12:23definitely would not say
- 12:25that. Women like to shop on Amazon
- 12:28and it's a, it's a dopamine
- 12:31hit when the little box comes for them. I'm
- 12:34not saying that.
- 12:37That's not what I'm saying right now.
- 12:40I just think it's an interesting point to
- 12:43note that so many of these articles
- 12:46are like, yeah, women really like
- 12:48shopping. But as
- 12:51it relates to potty parity at first,
- 12:54potty parody particularly
- 12:57relates here in the United States is
- 12:59focused on being
- 13:02bathrooms for both men
- 13:04and women. Big fan of that idea.
- 13:08Potty parody then was doing
- 13:11well because things were
- 13:13equal. But I want to
- 13:16know. Men and
- 13:19women have bathrooms and they have,
- 13:21in the most part separate bathroom
- 13:24spaces.
- 13:28And that's pretty equal.
- 13:31But that's not what potty parody has
- 13:34become. What potty parity
- 13:37has become seems to be like
- 13:40this monster that never has enough.
- 13:44That was parity. But
- 13:47there's a Stark contrast that employers
- 13:49started to understand when they
- 13:52began to employ women.
- 13:56And I'm not saying this
- 13:59explicitly, I'm not saying that the employers
- 14:02found that women like to online shop. I'm
- 14:05not saying that. No, I'm just kidding. We're moving on.
- 14:08But what these employers found is that when they
- 14:10employed women and thus had to have a bathroom
- 14:13space for women,
- 14:16they had to use it, uh, that
- 14:19that space came with
- 14:22a greater cost to the
- 14:25company.
- 14:29What I mean by that is
- 14:31that the space,
- 14:36it takes more space to put in
- 14:39the same number of women's
- 14:41toiletries as it does men.
- 14:44And it takes more space because of
- 14:47the creation and the use of the urinal.
- 14:50Men can stand to pee.
- 14:53And as a result,
- 14:56the stalls for men to pe in are much
- 14:59smaller and you can fit more of them
- 15:02in less space than you can a place for a woman
- 15:05to pee, which is also the same as where men poop, in case you didn't
- 15:08know that. And so employing
- 15:10women and having bathroom spaces that are specific
- 15:13to women became more costly to many, um,
- 15:16employers for them to make it equal.
- 15:25And so there began to be concerns about
- 15:28liability, like do
- 15:31we build more bathrooms or a bigger
- 15:34bathroom space for women so that way they,
- 15:37uh, have the equal number of,
- 15:40uh, stalls and things as men? Or do we
- 15:43encourage them, you know, like, hey, let's, let's
- 15:45maybe do things that are going to put women in a less
- 15:48desirable position.
- 15:51So this is the reality in mind. Parity.
- 15:54Two matters related to parity.
- 15:57But before we jump, we need to take a look at the
- 16:00perceived female experience
- 16:04and how their concerns in the
- 16:06bathroom before we take a
- 16:09look at how we might proceed
- 16:12on the problem of potty parity.
- 16:16Women and girls often spend more time in
- 16:19the bathroom than men and boys for
- 16:21both physiological, the literal way
- 16:24that their bodies are made, and
- 16:27cultural reasons. I'd be
- 16:30curious to understand that the claim
- 16:33somehow in itself non sexist,
- 16:36that women spend more time in the bathroom.
- 16:38Like, people just put that out there, like,
- 16:41yeah, women spend more time in the bathroom than men. As if
- 16:44that's not like a little sexist. First of
- 16:47all, I don't know the numbers for these ladies, but I
- 16:50guarantee you I've got them beat. I've spent a lot of time
- 16:53in the bathroom over the course of making this show.
- 16:57Yeah, my numbers are way up. It's
- 16:59wild. I think part of this
- 17:02problem is because women do feel the need to go to the
- 17:05bathroom together. Check out our episode last month with my wife
- 17:08Ana, um, where she
- 17:11explains, like, women go to the bathroom in pairs just to like talk
- 17:14and to be safe
- 17:17seems all too simple to me. I think there's more going on
- 17:20there. The
- 17:23requirement to use a cubicle rather than a
- 17:25urinal means urination is going to
- 17:28take longer and hand washing
- 17:31must be done more thoroughly. Uh,
- 17:34I think the argument is, is like, because you have
- 17:37to sit and like interface
- 17:40with like paper to wipe yourself down, that you need to
- 17:43do a more throw washing hand job. Now
- 17:46I want to say the act
- 17:49of GR of just taming the hog
- 17:53and sprayying snake is likely
- 17:55as messy than anything.
- 17:58And not having the hands on experience,
- 18:01like, I just feel like
- 18:04it's more messy. And so while I
- 18:06disagree that women's hands might get
- 18:09any more or less dirty, I think
- 18:12women on the whole are paying
- 18:15more attention to their hand washing than guys
- 18:18are. But like, that's a them
- 18:20problem. That's a choice that
- 18:23women make to wash their hands probably better than
- 18:26men. So the first suggestion that
- 18:29this, this potty disparity, this
- 18:32break in potty parity is caused
- 18:35because of like, the sheer number of like
- 18:39bathroom space.
- 18:42I don't know. Another
- 18:44suggestion is the
- 18:47prominence of urinary
- 18:50tract infections and
- 18:52incontinence in females.
- 18:55Apparently urinary tract
- 18:57infections and incontinence are
- 19:00more common in the women. Sorry ladies.
- 19:03It'anun. It's an unfortunate
- 19:06stat. Can always check my
- 19:08sources down below. I always post my
- 19:11links. It's an unfortunate thing.
- 19:14And uh, while I believe much of this is related to
- 19:17the specific equipment that women have,
- 19:21I think incontinence might sometimes be
- 19:24related to baby having. Like,
- 19:26I think if you have a baby or like too
- 19:29many babies and you like
- 19:32fart sneezeer, burp too hard, you might tinkle a
- 19:35little bit. I don't know if that's real, but like, I
- 19:38think that's a thing. Gotta say,
- 19:40dude, being a woman's rough. Like,
- 19:44it's a tough world. I think we arrived
- 19:47at that conclusion as well last year when we started talking
- 19:50about like the feine hygiene products. But like,
- 19:55even the stat that incontinence is a
- 19:58greater option just as part of the experience, it's
- 20:01like, hey, you're a lady. You are
- 20:03statistically more likely to experience
- 20:06incontinence in your life.
- 20:10Uh, really great.
- 20:13Pregnancy, menstruation, breastfeeding,
- 20:16and diaper changing are also claimed
- 20:19as reasons why women's usage of the
- 20:22bathroom is up. Now, only three of
- 20:25those things that I listed are
- 20:28specific to women when it comes to potty
- 20:30parity. In fact, I would
- 20:33Argue that the statement
- 20:36that women take longer and they need a
- 20:39changing table in the bathroom where men need
- 20:42it less often is its own
- 20:45example of potty
- 20:47disparity. Wh men
- 20:50ought to have equal access
- 20:53to baby changers as women.
- 20:56It should. It's just facts
- 20:59might lie. It's hard to get around those other
- 21:01three like menstruating,
- 21:04having babies and breastfeeding.
- 21:08Men don't do those. And as a result men's
- 21:10bathroom spaces don't need spaces for those
- 21:13things. Those things can take up
- 21:16space. Yes'll grant that
- 21:19the elderly who are disproportionately
- 21:22female take longer and more frequent
- 21:25bathroom visits. How the frick do you figure?
- 21:28Is it, is it because men die
- 21:31earlier? Like that's most
- 21:34likely the case that that doesn't sound
- 21:37very much, very much a parody to
- 21:40me. It's like some things about
- 21:42this world are just not fair.
- 21:45Like I could guff and groan. I'm like oh,
- 21:49men die sooner than women. That's not fair. I
- 21:52want equitable outcomes. Like the equitable
- 21:55outcomes on that are not a thing that you can
- 21:57pursue. Equality acknowledges that
- 22:00and says yeah, that's the shake. And they have equal access to the
- 22:03things they could do to live longer. As a man in
- 22:06equity says, well no. Men and women need to
- 22:09try to have the equal amount of time. It's like
- 22:14if you gool about this stuff, it can be so harrowing
- 22:17when it's taken to the extreme.
- 22:20What'I'm go going to say It's a rough look if you take
- 22:23these things to extreme.
- 22:26So these are some of the arguments regarding women. They spend more
- 22:29time in the bathroom. They do a greater number of acts in the bathroom. They're
- 22:32susceptible to more bathroom reliant
- 22:35conditions and ailments and features.
- 22:38Modern day potty parody says women's
- 22:41bathrooms should be bigger. And I'm actually okay
- 22:44with that idea. If a company
- 22:46has the money, the floor
- 22:49space to make the women's bathroom bigger, I say
- 22:52make it bigger. They're gonna be doing,
- 22:55they're go goingna be doing things men won't have to do in that
- 22:58bathroom. Put breastfeeding area in some spaces, it's
- 23:01fine. And all the people are like well
- 23:04I'll breath my, feed my my kid wherever I
- 23:06darn well please.
- 23:11Fine. Just keep in mind that other
- 23:14people might not want to see you. Like
- 23:18when you are exposing your your part of your
- 23:21body, just think about
- 23:24others for like 30 seconds.
- 23:2730 seconds. That's why I don't have my butt crack hanging
- 23:30out all the time because I try to think about,
- 23:32O man, is my stanky crack going
- 23:35to offend somebody? It's okay to cover that up. Uh,
- 23:38it's fine.
- 23:41But to say that women need more
- 23:44bathrooms so they have more stalls
- 23:47seems weird. I get women only have
- 23:50one option, but it doesn't mean
- 23:52double. Also,
- 23:55the history of potty parody
- 23:58is directly connected to and
- 24:01wrapped up in the history and rejection
- 24:04of pay toilets. There was a time in
- 24:07our nation's history where women had to
- 24:10pay to pee and men did not
- 24:12because men could pee on the street and women
- 24:15needed to pay a toll to get into a
- 24:18bathroom. Nowadays
- 24:21it seems women need twice the floor space
- 24:24because their jobs are less efficient. And
- 24:27that's not my concern. I think this is one of those things
- 24:30we could handle via common sense.
- 24:33That's not how people solve their problems anymore.
- 24:36Nowadays when people have a lot of
- 24:39problems, they feel the need to get the government
- 24:41involved.
- 24:51American public interest lawyer, legal
- 24:53activist and professor at Georgetown
- 24:56University. Which tells you that he's all
- 24:59around real champion of a guy.
- 25:02John Francis Bands Half the
- 25:05Third nerd. Oh, uh,
- 25:08John Francis Bands Half the
- 25:10Third. You know you
- 25:13had, you had, you had
- 25:16two rounds of two generations
- 25:19of people. You recorda sorted out the John
- 25:22Francis thing. Like you didn't have to
- 25:25go John Francis II and then you
- 25:28definitely could have swapped it up for the third. But what do I
- 25:31know? John
- 25:33Francis Bands Half II Third is the
- 25:36self proclaimed father of potty
- 25:39parity. In his time as
- 25:42a public interest lawyer, in the course of making a fortune
- 25:45of money as well, don't forget he
- 25:47became very wealthy off of all these things.
- 25:51John Francis Banzaff
- 25:53whatever has levied lawsuits against the
- 25:56tobacco industry, has criticized
- 25:59drink machine companies at fast food
- 26:02restaurants. He's one of the lawyers who tried
- 26:05to sue McDonald's for making kids
- 26:08fat rather than suing their parents for
- 26:10feeding them McDonald's all the time.
- 26:14He can be seen making
- 26:16these comments and discussing this
- 26:20in the hit documentary
- 26:23Supersize Me. Levying these concerns.
- 26:27Very recently, John Frankie
- 26:30Bands Half the Third helped
- 26:33levy legislation against President Donald
- 26:35Trump. The guy seems
- 26:38out of control. He seems a little bit suio happy to
- 26:41me, this father of potty
- 26:44parody. This guy
- 26:47seems out of control in these things. So much so that the
- 26:50website bansh
- 26:51halfwatch.com was started
- 26:54with the slogan quote keeping an
- 26:57eye on the man who wants to sue America.
- 27:01This guy claims to be the father
- 27:04of potty parody. And that's because he's
- 27:07reported as arguing that if
- 27:10you just have equal facilities
- 27:13for male and female,
- 27:16you are engaging in sex discrimination
- 27:19against women. Not men,
- 27:22women. Again, he
- 27:25believes that if you give men and women
- 27:28equal bathroom space, you
- 27:31are being sexist.
- 27:34Now I want to admit, and I think many
- 27:37people would admit, if they take just a
- 27:39second to reason it out,
- 27:42women need more space and I'm
- 27:45fine with them having it. I don't care about
- 27:48them having more space. But I want you to understand
- 27:51that's not equ quality, that's equity.
- 27:54They want equal outcomes. They want
- 27:57women's experience in the bathroom and the speed at
- 27:59which they can go into the bathroom and get out to be the
- 28:02same as men. The
- 28:05problem is the
- 28:08outcomes haven't been equal and they've come
- 28:11at the cost of businesses. And there have
- 28:14been moments in reports of places that have
- 28:16this double women's bathroom ratio. And
- 28:19there's instances of men waiting now
- 28:22with women not having to.
- 28:26There have been a number of proposed solutions to the problem
- 28:29of potty parity.
- 28:32Remember, the goal is
- 28:35to give women equal access and
- 28:38meet their bathroom specific needs.
- 28:41It also should be noted there have been a few
- 28:44paths forward.
- 28:49As we bring this episode to close, I want to put
- 28:52forth a few ideas related
- 28:55to how to solve this,
- 28:57this potty parity
- 29:01concern and our suggested
- 29:03ratio for bathrooms.
- 29:07One popular
- 29:10and more like on the rise
- 29:13trending solution to the concern of potty parity
- 29:17are gender neutral bathrooms. Now
- 29:21I'm a big proponent for gender
- 29:24neutral bathrooms, but they cannot
- 29:27be in spaces where men
- 29:30or women can access other men or women
- 29:33behind closed doors without their consent.
- 29:37They have to be safe, they have to
- 29:39be smart. And so if you
- 29:42are going to have separated men's, women's bathrooms,
- 29:45if you're not going to do gender neutral. Gender neutral solves
- 29:48a lot of these problems of parity because now you have
- 29:51men and women waiting for the exact same
- 29:54rim. Now instead of
- 29:57uh, one group of people waiting, you got everybody wa
- 30:00know what I'm saying? Another
- 30:03solution is the use of women's journals.
- 30:06Yes, these exist and they're kind of finangly
- 30:09and they're kind of tough to install. And
- 30:12it's one of those things where it's like
- 30:16when co, when the Coca Cola company put out their new
- 30:19Coke Freestyle machines, it took a while for it to catch
- 30:22on. And the reason it took a while for it to catch on
- 30:25is because for
- 30:28years when a person walked up to a
- 30:31Coke machine, they push their Coke against that
- 30:34little like lever thingy in it,
- 30:36like the Coke out. And
- 30:39the Coke freestyle thing has an electronic screen
- 30:42where you push a digital button
- 30:45that dispenses the coke.
- 30:48And that simple little change was a barrier
- 30:51to a lot of people.
- 30:55If you try to introduce
- 30:57women's urinals, even though
- 31:00it might help solve some of these problems, there's going to be
- 31:03an incredible hesitancy and an incredible learning
- 31:06curve related to these things.
- 31:12Uh, another path forward would
- 31:15be to simply begin
- 31:18to try to find a
- 31:21better ratio for men's and
- 31:23women's bathrooms. And so I have a proposal to make
- 31:26here. I. A proposal. My
- 31:29proposal for the number of men's
- 31:33bathroom facilities to women's is
- 31:35this. Men
- 31:38should have like whatever the number
- 31:41is. For
- 31:44every, for every two
- 31:46urinals there should be one more
- 31:50women's toilet. So however many toilets
- 31:52you have done
- 31:55now, for every two urinals you should have one
- 31:58more women's toilet. Meaning if in a
- 32:01bathroom, in a men's bathroom you have two sit
- 32:04down poopy toilets and two stand up
- 32:07peee toilets, in the women's bathroom
- 32:10you should have three sit down
- 32:13poo poo Pe. Pe toilets.
- 32:16That's my ratio. Now people might hear
- 32:19that and they'll go, uh oh, well that's not fair because
- 32:23again, I would argue
- 32:26the fact that women in that situation
- 32:29can go three deep on a Chaz
- 32:32Deluxe drop and men cannot
- 32:36isn't fair. Like, it's not fair.
- 32:39Do you see what I'm saying? Like, life's not fair. Get a
- 32:41helmet. We do our best.
- 32:44We find the systems and the things that begin to make the
- 32:47most sense and address this the best way while
- 32:50still operating inside the world of reason. So again,
- 32:53the Privy potty parody, golden
- 32:56ratio of justice
- 32:58inequality is
- 33:02for every two male urinals there
- 33:05should be one additional female
- 33:07toilet.
- 33:10What do you guys think? What do you guys think about our
- 33:13potty parity ratio? Let us know in the comments. We don't do that
- 33:16very often. Comment down below, say, give us
- 33:19your ratio down below. This will
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