2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie's TERRIFIC response to Hillary's bathroom scandal. [View all]pnwmom
(109,419 posts)not being deliberately sexist.
Older buildings often have poor facilities for women compared to men. Old building codes didn't require as many restrooms for women as for men. Did you know that? Did you know that time and motion studies in the 80's resulted in new building codes, when researchers with stop watches discovered that women needed twice as much time as men to do the same thing? We can't just whip it out and hang it over the urinal.
But it's even worse than that because, as I already mentioned, they don't always pair men's and ladies' rooms. In the case of ABC's building, the closest women's bathroom was significantly farther away from the stage then the men's. It was as simple as that.
The allotted time was only 5 minutes. Hillary's aide had already helped her time the trip with a stopwatch. Walking quickly, it took her 3.5 minutes out of the break time just walking back and forth. Which left her only a minute and a half to take care of business in the bathroom, including washing her hands.
And yet she was only seconds late.
And now people like you are criticizing her instead of ABC, for aiming the camera at the empty podium and making a point of starting without her.
Wow. I can't believe the people who think of themselves as progressives. Get a clue.