Male Senators Banned Women From Senate Pool So They Could Swim Naked (Historical)

[ismnotwasm]

The U.S. Senate has long been viewed as a good ol’ boys’ club, and the men have fought to keep it that way. Perhaps the last bastion of that effort was the Senate pool.

No woman was allowed to swim in the Senate pool until 2008. It was an unwritten rule that apparently didn’t get challenged until a little over six years ago when Kay Hagan of North Carolina was elected to the Senate. She simply wanted to be able to swim in a pool that theoretically existed for all 100 senators.

The problem was that the men of the Senate liked to swim naked together, so they didn’t let women in. You read that right. They were attached to group, male-only skinny dipping.

Sen. Hagan exposed their sweet set-up by speaking at an abortion rights women’s luncheon in January, 2009. She said:

“Imagine my surprise when I tried to use the Senate members’ gym recently and found out that there is a pool, but — guess what — it’s only for the men.”

http://reverbpress.com/politics/male-senators-banned-women-senate-pool-swim-naked/

[niyad]

1. k and r

[CincyDem]

2. Ted and Lindsey at the pool...ewww...there's something just not right about that. n/t

[CTyankee]

3. When he was in high school back in the late 50s, my husband's pool required that the boys

swam nude. The girls did not. My husband remarked that the pool's water was so cold, there was um, shrinkage...

[freshwest]

7. Same as my high school in the sixties, minus any commentary from the guys. Girls had the pool twice

a week for a couple of hours, but it was available to the guys were in it the rest of the week.

We knew they in there in the nude on their days and we weren't. Seemed like their privacy was being violated to me, as it was mandatory for them to be nude. It was a bit gross to us having to use the same pool. We had our own facilities for everything else.

But we weren't denied the use of the pool at all times. Some public pools in my region schedule times for different groups, such as disabled, elderly, or those with religious ideas.

The Senate could simply schedule different times for each group. It's only a hundred people, FPS!

[dballance]

4. All I can say is EWWW

A bunch of pasty old white men swimming in the nude. Yuck!

[GeoWilliam750]

5. Brain bleach please

Its a bit early for vast quantities of alcohol

[ismnotwasm]

6. Heh!