Comfort Women – Their Tales and Revelations Behind Closed Doors

One can look at prolonged comfort room breaks in two ways. It can be seen as an annoying phenomenon, as perceived by men. Or it can be regarded as a privilege to be upheld by girls and women alike.

What really goes on behind the closed doors of the female restroom is none of males’ business, though no woman will deny having men as a favorite restroom business agenda. Well, among many others.

So, what do women really do behind the closed doors of common washrooms? Why do they go in herds and make men hang on for what seems like longer than the wait they endure during courtship?

First of all, unlike men, women have to stand in queues for their turn to urinate. Women have to deal with more than just buckles, buttons and zippers. There are trousers or skirts, together with hosieries and underwear, which all have to be pulled all the way down to their knees… after the buckles, buttons and zippers have been loosened. Then, they have to reverse the entire process.

Hygiene and make-up re-touch are also among the reasons.

But the meat of this post actually lies on the supposition that one woman does not truly know another woman until she has shared a comfort room break with her. Many friendships have been formed inside the washroom. Some might have started with something as superficial as comparing each other’s lip tint. Some may involve a bit of mentoring, like showing someone how to properly apply liquid eye liner or teaching her the advantages of using a gel sun block over the lotion type. Some may have been born out of an act of kindness – giving someone a generous amount of pulls from her toilet paper or shelling out a peso or two for someone who needs a sanitary pad from the vending machine.

Girls excuse themselves in groups in the middle of dinner or a night out basically, to whip up a perfect plan for the night. Usually, girls take this opportunity to ask for their girl friends’ opinion of the guy they are with. In worst cases, the comfort room serves as the venue to discuss the great escape from a bad company.

True to its name, the comfort room provides comfort to distressed women; that is, comfort other than those which are biologically required. Many have shed uncontrollable tears while concealed in cubicles. Some girl friends take time to talk to their heartbroken friends inside the washroom.

Other than all these, women can nowhere else be as sincere as they are inside the four corners of the comfort room. They talk about their lives and of secrets best revealed in the hush-hush of this place.

It is most likely that men will be even more stupefied after reading this post. Why do women have to excuse themselves for comfort, is perhaps, their next question.

Well, the answer is simple. It is why they call them comfort rooms. :p