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- Subject: Re: More on Bathroom behavior studies. (try again)
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- ...with no direct experience on the matter, my impression is that the
- arrangement in women's restrooms is generally such (i.e., there are
- separate stalls, typically with doors on them) that personal space
- invasion is not quite so apparent as it would be in the typical men's
- room with a line of urinals hanging on the wall cheek-by-jowl (so to
- speak). In effect, a minimum interpersonal distance is enforced in
- women'
- (oops) s restrooms.
-
- Extrapolating/extending the comment, in crowded situations, men are
- persistently space-invaded, women aren't because of the physical
- layout of the respective restrooms. Couple that with the additional
- clothing manipulations women are faced with (perhaps the more important
- element in per capita time involved).
- Pat Cabe
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