My employer takes up the entire 6th and 7th floor, and half of the 8th floor of my building. As the 6th & 7th floors are secure areas with keycard access, the restrooms are open (i.e. there are no locks on the entrance doors).
On the 8th floor, the restrooms are not in the company's secure areas as we share them with the other tenant on the floor. Now, the women's restroom is kept locked, and every woman who works on the floor has a key. The men's restroom is not kept locked.
So, do they figure that the guys really want to get into the women's room or something (maybe it's nicer or cleaner), but that the women wouldn't go into the men's?
I'm trying to be better about blogging about random thoughts when I have them - happy Friday!
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Your thoughts are true - woman's probably are nicer and women probably don't want to get into the men's.
However, I also be it is a safety thing for women. When I was at school at UK a couple of my professors always told the women that if we were in the school late at night, with no one/not many people around, we should always use the men's restrooms - they are safer. Men who want to rape or kill or otherwise attack an easy target - a woman - can hide in the woman's restroom. In the men's restroom they are more likely to be taken down by a big strong man.
I totally should have just taken pictures of the bathrooms in LAs Vegas.
Because at least there, your better bathrooms theory is totally true. The women's rooms are AWESOME. The men's have a urinal. Boring.
I tested this theory over and over again with Kendall. I would describe my bathroom and then make him go check the men's room too. Every time his was lame.
I get bummed when going to restaurants that are obviously 100% owned and operated by males - THEIR bathrooms are the fabulous ones, guys come out talking about how fantastic they are, and the girls are just lame. Not even a sitting room (I still don't know why Women's often have couches...). when I worked at Givaudan at 1 woman's restroom there was a nasty couch. Not in the men's. However, it was fun to tell the men about it, just to brag that we had one. Not that anyone would ever touch it.
I can't think of them off the top of my head...but there are a few out there - and they are typically in really nice restaurants, where that is the case.
(the UK story up there started, apparently, in the 80's/early 90's when a couple girls got attacked on campus in the women's restrooms. I.e. there's a reason that 10-20 years later they were still telling women that men's are safer when there are otherwise no/few men around.
my sentiments exactly!
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