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Pitchers. This image makes me laugh because it reminds me of my days in law school. You see, I went to law school in the days when the barriers to women in law (overt or covert) were just beginning to give way. The class two years before mine was 2-5% women. The class a year ahead was 25% women. My class had 40% women. So the makeup of the student body had changed a bit, but facilities lagged behind. There was a women's locker room on the first floor with a small "ladies room,"  which as I recall might have had two small toilet stalls and two sinks. But the second and third floors of the building had always had two mens' restrooms, no women's. Realizing that would be a problem with greater numbers of  those of the female persuasion, the powers that be decided to screw up a sign that said "Women" on one of the men's room doors on each floor. So we got our ladies' rooms, complete with functioning urinals. Now they did seem to realize tha...