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...Westerners-until they happen to get sick in Russia. By U.S. standards, many Soviet hospitals are as crowded and shabby as the New York City subway. The typical building is a grim fortress with old equipment in poor repair. The food is plentiful but dull; instead of tissues and toilet paper, the patient makes do with yesterday's Pravda. The institutions are well described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his novel, The Cancer Ward. To some patients, though, such hospitals look like paradise. Among them are alcoholics, a major Soviet problem, who can wind up in "corrective-labor detention centers...
FROM THIS follows Slater's description of a major rule in our lives-the Toilet Assumption. The Toilet Assumption is "the notion that unwanted matter, unwanted difficulties and obstacles will disappear if they are removed from our immediate field of vision." Our approach to social problems, he says, is to decrease their visibility. Thus, we see the populace angered at press and mass media for keeping unwanted difficulties in front...
...line of march. A group of about 25 male hecklers-those shifty-eyed little men who stand on streetcorners and smack their lips-follow along chanting "Be a woman, be a mother." Their hand-lettered signs read "We Love Women: In the Kitchen and in the Bed" and "End Toilet Facility Discrimination Now." Be a mother. "Why?" I shout at one and he shrugs. "Because I need a mother...
...baby has no inhibitions and urinates whenever the nerve centers of the bladder react to internal pressure. The trouble begins, says Lapides, with toilet training. A child, especially a girl, is rewarded with approval when it wakes up with dry diapers; boys are expected to be more undisciplined...
...grade school, girls seem more sensitive to their teachers' annoyance at requests to leave the room; they ask to be excused less often than they should. When they do get to the lavatories, they are likely to find stalls with no doors. Toilet seats may be broken or dirty. So many girls decide to "hold it" until they go home. Boys, more conveniently equipped and usually less shy, are under no such restraint...