Potty parity in NY's new baseball stadiums. Be sure to read the comments.

[Captain Hilts]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/sports/baseball/13potty.html?em

Women view long lines as everything from a small irritant to a persistent form of gender discrimination.

But “potty parity” laws and ever-changing plumbing codes promise relief.

And in no place in New York City will those changes be felt more than in the restroom lines at the new Yankee Stadium and the Mets’ Citi Field, if things go according to plan.

It may be the biggest moment “for potty parity that we have seen, to have two big facilities open at the same time, and all these restrooms open at once,” said Kathryn Anthony, a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois and a board member of the American Restroom Association.

Roughly 1,500 new toilet fixtures (water closets, in plumbing parlance, and urinals for men) await fans at the two ballparks, about a 30 percent increase at Yankee Stadium and a 10 percent increase at Citi Field, which holds about 12,000 fewer fans than Shea Stadium did.

[Berry Cool]

1. It's nice to know. Potty parity has been a long time coming.

Baseball games are bad enough, but try attending an event with a mostly female audience in an older arena without potty parity. It's a miracle if a woman can get near a toilet at all, unless someone's had the foresight to do a temporary "changeover" and convert some of the men's rooms temporarily into women's restrooms. Even so, they then have to put curtains over the urinals, because most women will go running out of the room if they see one, thinking they've entered a men's room by accident.

[Captain Hilts]

2. The NCAA women's basketball championship in Cincinnatti. NOT a good situation. nt

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Honestly, I just used the men's room half the time at concerts and football games and stuff

Usually cleaner, and a women never gets kicked out of the men's room.