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kpete

(71,997 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:23 AM Dec 2015

Memo To Donald Trump: Everybody Pees But bathroom breaks take longer for women.

Everybody pees. But it’s the rare man-child who finds that worthy of ridicule.
And it’s up to voters: Is that the kind of exceptionalism you want in the White House?

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Jonathan Cohn
Senior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post

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Women need to use bathrooms more often and for longer periods of time because: we sit to urinate (urinals effectively double the space in men’s rooms), we menstruate, we are responsible for reproducing the species (which makes us pee more), we continue to have greater responsibility for children (who have to use bathrooms with us), and we breastfeed (frequently in grotty bathroom stalls). Additionally, women tend to wear more binding and cumbersome clothes, whereas men’s clothing provides significantly speedier access.

This shouldn’t surprise anybody who’s ever attended a concert or sports event, and noticed long lines for the women’s rooms while men walk in and out of their facilities easily. In just the last few years, local governments have taken steps to address this problem, passing “potty parity” ordinances that require that builders of stadiums and other large venues add enough women’s bathrooms to avoid creating those long lines.

Even the U.S. Congress finally came around in 2011, opening a women’s restroom near the Speaker’s Lobby in the House. Previously, female members of Congress had to walk down the hall, through tourists, to find a bathroom.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-clinton-potty_5679d550e4b06fa6887f49f0?gbv2huxr

a kidney doctor I know was baffled by his latest outburst:

“Urine is sterile,” Maya Rao, an assistant professor of nephrology at Columbia University, pointed out. “It’s not ‘disgusting.’ Wow. I literally feel like I’m dealing with an elementary-school child and we’re talking about cooties.”

Trump is routinely — and rightly — tagged as a playground bully, but that phrase doesn’t do full justice to his arrested development, his potty mouth and the puerile nature of his vulgar bleats.

He taunts people for being unpopular, for being unattractive, for physical disabilities. The altitude of his debate vocabulary is only millimeters above “I know you are but what am I,” words that he’ll surely utter before this is all over.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/blood-sweat-and-trump.html?smid=tw-share

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Memo To Donald Trump: Everybody Pees But bathroom breaks take longer for women. (Original Post) kpete Dec 2015 OP

maybe she was taking a trump? wendylaroux Dec 2015 #1

Memo to Trump : grow up. Mass Dec 2015 #2

"Trump is behaving like a toddler." More like a middle school bully. yellowcanine Dec 2015 #3

and we have to adjust makeup, because no woman is allowed on national stage without makeup zazen Dec 2015 #4

And his popularity say plenty about the maturity level of the GOP base. The GOP establishment is tblue37 Dec 2015 #5

wendylaroux

(2,925 posts)

1. maybe she was taking a trump?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:33 AM

Dec 2015

Mass

(27,315 posts)

2. Memo to Trump : grow up.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:53 AM

Dec 2015

Trump is behaving like a toddler. it may be time for people to notice that rather than attacking every single word he says. We need an adult as president and Donald Trump does not qualify as an adult.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)

3. "Trump is behaving like a toddler." More like a middle school bully.

Reply to Mass (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:26 AM

Dec 2015

Toddlers are cute and lovable even when they are misbehaving. Trump is neither.

zazen

(2,978 posts)

4. and we have to adjust makeup, because no woman is allowed on national stage without makeup

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:28 AM

Dec 2015

Seriously. I love Bernie Sanders (and respect MOM) but they don't have to expend mental and physical energy dealing with this crap. The difference between them and asshole male Repubs is they're decent human beings who acknowledge this injustice and call it out, hilariously in Bernie's case.

If you're a middle-aged woman or older, you especially have to go through all of these machinations, including plastic surgery and botox and fillers ahead of time and then all the crap with hair, which is harder for African American women, to "make up" your face to look as neutrally unmade-up but slightly made-up but not overly made up yada yada yada.

God forbid your lipstick is a little too heavy. Then you're a tart. Not enough? You look "old" or "washed out" and "unfeminine." And you're blamed for your plastic surgery, like Nancy Pelosi. But you'd never be allowed on a national podium without it. Yet it's your fault. You must be vain.

I noticed Debbie got a full professional aesthetician makeover between Friday night and Saturday night. She had clearly been doing her own makeup. I noticed this Friday night on the talk shows and wondered why her staff were letting her look like an actual middle-aged woman who was doing her own hair and makeup (and she wasn't doing a good job of it from a purely technical point of view). Sure' nuf, she had straightened hair with some curls and a completely different makeup style the following night that I know she couldn't have learned on her own. I can tell you, that took HOURS. Not AN hour. HOURS.

Do men have any idea how much time we have to put into this crap? Especially in middle-age?

Don't care for Debbie and disagree with HRC but women have to run to the bathroom all the time not just to urinate and change female products but also to check the film-production-level makeup and the hair.

tblue37

(65,409 posts)

5. And his popularity say plenty about the maturity level of the GOP base. The GOP establishment is

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:32 AM

Dec 2015

trying to pretend he is not like them, but they built that. The establshment candidates say the same things to please the same base (full of truly base voters), but he has ripped away the mask to reveal what they really mean.

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