• @[email protected]
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      Public restrooms were campaigned for by suffragettes because women were unable to leave their homes for any period without them. Men would just wee against a fence.

      • Lovable Sidekick
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        That’s the Victorian era for you. But for many earlier centuries women went out all the time to take care of various errands, so they must have had some form of acceptable public peeing, even if it’s not written down for us to study. Maybe they just gathered up their skirts and squatted behind a designated bush. Definitely sounds like the kind of thing Queen Victoria would have suppressed.

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    It’s sort of the other way. Buildings in the southern US before the 1960s, besides having gendered bathrooms, also had separate bathrooms for white and black people. So 4 kinds of bathrooms. The Pentagon today is apparently a bathroom user’s paradise, because it was built in the 1940s with enough bathroom capacity for all its users even having the 4 kinds of bathrooms. Then after desegregation, its bathrooms got consolidated into just 2 kinds (by gender). So it now has 2x more bathroom capacity per person than newer office buildings have.

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      Jeez. I always thought IBS would prevent a pentagon job, maybe the Pentagon was just designed for IBS in a way.

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      are you sure its 2 times the capacity per person now? Because that makes no sense. Without additional info, there should be the same amount of people using the same capacity of bathrooms now.

      Just the number of bathrooms usable per person has changed, so you are more likely to have a bathroom nearby. But you don’t have more room or more toilets per sé.

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    I’m all for all-gender bathrooms, but there MUST be at least two public bathrooms at any given spot. I can’t tell you how uncomfortable it is to take a first date to a museum, both need to use the bathroom, and walk into the single, silent, all-gender bathroom, and try to pretend you can’t hear each other doing your business. I assume gay folks have been struggling with this since the beginning, but y’all should have said something

    • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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      I think we should get over hangups like this. Oh well you heard each other piss. Big pissing deal. If one or both of you were shitting that’s just bad date planning. Shit and get off before you go on a date.

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        I agree that societally we should get over it, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s an awkward activity on a first date

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      Fuck this idea. It would screw up everything. I judge my dates on the fortitude of flatulence. Stop trying to make the bathroom woke.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    The only issue I have with unisex bathrooms is that by the end of the night women’s bathrooms look like a horror movie.

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      I used to work at a gas station. I’d have to clean the bathrooms once per shift.

      The mens bathroom? A couple of wet spots next to the toilet. I always attributed this to the guys who end up getting multiple streams, and don’t know what to do.

      The womens bathroom? Look. I know women bleed once a month. I get it. But ladies, what the fuck are you doing in the gas station bathrooms??? Are you having coat hanger abortions??? Is it like a woman thing to all contribute to one communal blood pool? There is no way these nightly horror scenes all came from one person unless they had a recently chopped off limb! Is Freddie Kruger attacking you ladies while you’re pooping? I have never figured out what the womens bathroom experience is, but it has SHATTERED any illusion to me that women are cleaner/neater than men. We may leave dirty laundry around the house for days, but you gals have an exorcism as you toot.

      See, this is why everyone says girls don’t poop. They DON’T poop. They disembowel.

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        It’s even worse in clubs. I’ve seen pads and tampons stuck to the walls, random objects in the toilet, soiled panties left on the floor. And this isn’t the extremes either. This is a normal fri-sat.

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          Absolutely. It’s night and day the minute you add alcohol into the mix. I remember telling my old boss I wouldn’t clean the women’s bathroom after weddings anymore unless I got hazard pay.

          What is with the tampom wall thing?

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        Played a show in Cambridge, MA back in 2007. After the show I needed to take a shit so they told me to use the women’s room since the men’s room was only urinals.

        Women’s room toilet had soft serve instead of a toilet seat. Someone literally just shit on top of the toilet. I chalked it up to a Massachusetts thing and moved to Colorado.

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    This is why i don’t understand why bathroom companies aren’t creating more genders in order to create more bathrooms.

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      But they have to be careful because otherwise people might realize it’s cheaper and easier to just label bathrooms with “sitting” and “sitting+standing”.

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    Yesterday I was at a rave with all-gender restrooms. Just as big bathroom predicted it was total mayhem. People queueing, making smalltalk, doing the things people do at the bathroom. I’m so thankful big bathroom protects us from this madness /s

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    In the US at least, the women’s restrooms used to say “colored”

    The reason we still have gendered bathrooms is because we didn’t change building codes for bathrooms and water fountains after segregation.