It's old news, but I just stumbled upon these comments by Vox Day.

In response to this:

City Council members introduced a bill Wednesday to have more restrooms set aside for women. Why? Because females take longer, explained Yvette Clarke, who dubbed the legislation the "Restroom Equity Bill." "Every woman and little girl can recall a situation were they waited in a long line to use the bathroom," said Clarke, an East Flatbush Democrat and one of the main sponsors of the bill.

The law would apply to arenas, auditoriums, drinking places, meeting halls, theaters, dance halls and stadiums. Other buildings would be required to adhere to the 2:1 ratio as best as possible, with details yet to be worked out in full.

Vox responds:

A 2-1 ratio is parity? This is what left-liberal thinking has come to. They're not even embarrased to publicly make moronic statements like this anymore.

As a conservative, I don't think there's any problem with giving women more restroom space than men, in view of certain biological, uh, realities.

Instead, my main objection is that this has been legally mandated, rather than just done voluntarily in response to customer needs. Of course, since women, then, require more restroom space, it also makes sense to allow such establishments to pass the cost along to them by selling tickets (or food, etc.) at different rates to men and women, with women paying the higher cost. :-)

Such an idea would be no different than the logic by which hairdressers charge different rates for men's cuts and those of women, or by which there are "Ladies' Night" at many bars.

But that exposes the real illogic, doesn't it?

It's not wrong to mandate women be given twice as much restroom space. But charge large ("oversized") people more to fly, charge women more for haircuts, or have a "Ladies' Night" with free drinks for the gals and, *whammo*, you're a bigoted, discriminating sexist.

As far as I can see, the only guiding principle is that if it makes any kind of practical economic sense, it must be illegal. If not, we'll mandate it.

And that's my objection.