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Working Title: Wonderous Ladies Room: From YKTTW
Meiriona: Think it was boy meets world? "why do you get couches?" "because sometimes we need to lie down"
Adam850: Cutting this:
- during the four years this troper spent in highschool the mensrooms had no mirrors, no soap, no DOORS ON THE STALLS, and in one case no dividing walls around the toilet. I had assumed that the ladiesroom was just as bad; until, as the senior prank, some guys with screwdrivers, pliers and wrenches went into the girlsroom after-hours, took out all the aformentioned amenities, and installed them in the mensrooms. And for the next two weeks the girls complained about the same conditions the guys had put-up with for four (and in some cases five) years.
Not a very good anecdote, too long, and the grammar is atrocious.
Fire Walk: Cleaving this, because as the natter says, it's not an example
- A version of this is seen in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in the prefects' bathroom. It contains the coolest bathtub EVER.
- That a MEN's bathroom, Harry gets there guided by a MALE prefect.
- Either that or it's unisex, since it's possible that only one person, regardless of gender, gets to use it at a given time.
- Possibly justified by the author of the the Harry Potter novels being female.
- Indeed, on the occasions when Harry and Ron do go into the girl's bathroom, in Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, it's fairly unremarkable. (Y'know, except for the escaped troll and the illegal potion concocting.)
- And the ghost.
- That a MEN's bathroom, Harry gets there guided by a MALE prefect.
Cassy: What? Ladies' bathroom with chairs or even a couch!? I've never seen that in Belgium, France, England and Canada, where do you live? I mean, is it an American thing?
skilaatara: No! The best you can hope for is cleanliness. Once in a hotel in Ireland I saw a women's bathroom with a working and stocked tampon dispenser, but that's the fanciest I've ever come across. Fuzzy Boots below says they had bathroom couches where she (he?) used to work, so apparently it's not a total myth...
Off Side 7: This example may already be up there for all I know, but I couldn't identify it: there was some cartoon where some girls' bathroom was the domain of a goddess named Hygiena (and it looked like a Grecian paradise.) Sound familiar to anyone?
Fuzzy Boots: The issue came up at work at my previous government job, why the girls got a couch in the bathroom while the guys didn't. The official party line by the management was that the couch was grandfathered in from previous concerns that females have a place to deal with "hysterics". To this day, I still am not sure if our management was employing very deadpan humor...
Bobby G: Somebody deleted these quotes from the top of the page:
Which is a shame, partly because more pages need to reference KateModern, but mainly because I think that they're better quotes for this page than the current one. Alas, they aren't from Mystery Science Theater 3000, so obviously they had to go. I'd have created a quotes page for them, but it's too late and I'm too tired to work that out now, so I'm going to be lazy and leave them here.
Bobby G: OK, that's done now.
