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All Bathrooms Gender Neutral: Good Idea or Bad Idea?
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Skwim
Veteran Member
Yes you are. And you're to report back to us. Curious males want to know.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
I've accidentally used a male bathroom at the airport. It really isn't all that different.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
seriosly? I've been hundreds of times.
well played!I heard from your woman that in your case it really doesn't make a difference.
Skwim
Veteran Member
That's hundreds of times more than I have.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Except that female restrooms don't have urinals, although they have many, many more toilets.I've accidentally used a male bathroom at the airport. It really isn't all that different.
Nymphs
Well-Known Member
That's the only difference.
does that make me like your hero? I once got a standing ovation for using the girls bathroom.
Skwim
Veteran Member
I am not sure it will be such a good idea. I mean, there are people who don't want the opposite sex in the same room while they do their thing, even if they are in a stall. Most people think about one thing: To take care of nature calling and there are stalls, but we have to think about all people's feelings, not just a few of them. Maybe someday in the future.
:faint::yes::super:Wear it in good health.
Apex
Somewhere Around Nothing
I do not believe the article is talking about the single stall unisex bathrooms. Those you already see in the US (just not in great numbers since they are not very cost effective to build). The article was advocating turning the multi-stall and multi-urinal bathrooms into gender neutral bathrooms.
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
And make going to the restroom unsafe for women. How nice of them.
Cuz there's so much crime in men's rooms?
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
Sometimes there are criminals in public restrooms.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Hey, criminals have pressing needs just like the rest of us. What would you have them do, just "hold it until . . . . . . ."?
Having gender specific bathrooms as is currently the case normally in most places doesn't seem to me as a necessary or needed set up in anyway, but more like something we just got used to. I think people would have gotten used to other set ups if they were the norm, and i personally wouldn't mind a unisex bathroom anymore than i mind a gender specific one (for clarity, i mind both. 'Cause i just hate public bathrooms!).
So that's probably the main impracticality that would face an idea of a wide replacement with unisex bathrooms, besides a few smaller issues. Such change would probably need to be more gradual with introduction of unisex bathrooms being more and more common until it becomes something pretty normal for most people to use. But besides that issue of cultural resistance, i think having one bathroom for everyone seems to make more sense in concept, since having two categories isn't particularly necessary in the first place, and since it even provides a problem for a subset of people by being a simplistic categorization.
