Gender-Neutral Restrooms (Your Thoughts)

Hagan

Hagan

Check my new Avatar
Personally I'm disgusted and annoyed by the notion.

There's a good reason for gender separation in public restrooms.

Your thoughts?
 
It doesn't bother me at all to be honest. I think some of the clubs I went to when I was younger had gender neutral restrooms. We are all just people.
 
It would undoubtedly bother me, perverts everywhere both male and female. A university in Toronto had to scale down on their gender neutrality due to certain 'incidents'.
 
Hagan said:
Personally I'm disgusted and annoyed by the notion.

There's a good reason for gender separation in public restrooms.

Your thoughts?
Click to expand...

I'm curious as to why you're disgusted by this? No judgement; I'm genuinely just curious. Is it the idea of someone of the opposite gender pooping near you? Or is it the idea of someone of the opposite gender being near you while you're pooping? The idea of someone who might look you in a sexual way being in the same bathroom? Or is it something I've not considered at all?

I'm with [MENTION=20]Solitude[/MENTION] on this one, though. We're all human. Everybody poops. If sufficient privacy is given, the gender identification of the person pooping or peeing near me makes no difference to me.
 
no problem with it, i know of plenty of of bars and restaurants and clubs that only have 1 restroom that both genders have to use
 
I already have an issue with public restrooms in general, flipping out my 'Johnson' in front of strangers is not something I do with a light heart; why I prefer to use cubicles. If I can avoid it altogether, so much the better.
 
I was in the hostel in High School and we had one of those open showers with 3 shower heads, so you had to get over privacy issues pretty quick.

I wouldn't mind gender neutral bathrooms however I'm sure the odd creep here and there would screw it up somehow.
 
Hagan said:
I already have an issue with public restrooms in general, flipping out my 'Johnson' in front of strangers is not something I do with a light heart; why I prefer to use cubicles. If I can avoid it altogether, so much the better.
Click to expand...

I doubt they would have urinals, so unless you're going to whip it out and stride around i'm sure you will be okay :D
 
I have nothing against women pooping or whatnot, we all do it. (But women dont fart, right....right? :p) But I prefer to use a male only restroom/toilet (where did the term restroom come from in anycase? Sounds as stupid as ppl spending hours on the toilet playing games...but I digress) as thats how I grew up. So if you want go peepee infront of the opposite sex, go for it but dont force that on me. For all I care put up three separate restrooms but leave the two separate sexes restrooms alone.

Another kettle of fish is which restroom should be used by someone who changed sex... oh this world of ours...[sarcasm]fun, fun...FUN![/sarcasm]
 
Hagan said:
Personally I'm disgusted and annoyed by the notion.

There's a good reason for gender separation in public restrooms.

Your thoughts?
Click to expand...

In principle not really bothered by it as long as there are suitable physical barriers in place.

That said every and I mean *every* reddit comment I've ever read on the topic of cleaning bathrooms (janitor AMAs etc) has said that women's ones are significantly nastier to clean. So no exactly excited on that front.

Hagan said:
There's a good reason for gender separation in public restrooms.
Click to expand...
Good reason...feel free to elaborate...
 
HavocXphere said:
In principle not really bothered by it as long as there are suitable physical barriers in place.

That said every and I mean *every* reddit comment I've ever read on the topic of cleaning bathrooms (janitor AMAs etc) has said that women's ones are significantly nastier to clean. So no exactly excited on that front.


Good reason...feel free to elaborate...
Click to expand...

If I may interject , alas, we live in a world teeming with feculent beings, and thus a gender neutral lavatory creates easily accessible hunting grounds for these said turds. Yes, women can be assaulted in their separate lavatory, however, it would create suspicion if a man is seen walking into the female section, with a neutral section not so much.

Secondly , if I had a daughter I would find it much too inappropriate to take her to a neutral restroom if for instance it was the only one available at a particular restaurant or mall.

Thirdly, those women who have besmirched the name of all women by leaving the restroom in disarray, shame on you :P
 
HavocXphere said:
Its sad that this is even a consideration :(
Click to expand...

In this world of our's we have to consider the possible dangers. I dread the day I have kids (not that I dread kids, just that I dread worrying about them all the time), maybe I can get a tracker chip implanted in their arm or something :D :P
 
Let met tell you a story of my people.... well not mine, but my cousin's. She was a fag hag and when we came to visit over the Easter weekend to PETORIA she took me clubbing with the "girls". Now... I was from Bloem and the "girls" stayed in their closet back then so when I found myself surrounded by bumping and grinding men.. not bumping and grinding on me and her... I was totally freaked the hell out, then totally depressed. SIGH. I thought I might as well not have bothered getting my make up and hair done for all the attention I was getting.

And the bathrooms... dear ye gods... You had to go with somebody else to keep the doors closed and EVERYBODY went where they could even though there was separate facilities. You would be doing your lipstick, then notice the person doing hers next to you has chest hair!

In theory if everybody kept things nice and clean and if the stalls were walled up and the doors closed properly and privacy was ensured with proper extraction fans lol you could have anybody in there. But there is a reason girls go in packs. Maybe an attendant stationed in there like they did/do in America would keep things civil?

Also the term "restroom" probably stems from the British "withdrawing room" where ladies went during balls to unlace their corsets, fix their wardrobe malfunctions, gossiped, took off their too small shoes... that kinda thing. It was a place to rest.
 
I suppose it depends on the environment, if its a club vs a restaurant that a whole different vibe and how people behave themselves is different, maybe instead of a single unisex bathroom have gender identified bathrooms with stalls only, one male one female , so whatever you identify with use.
 
Many restaurants these days have unisex bathrooms and I haven't noticed anything weird or felt uncomfortable in them...
 
Last edited:
AstroTurf said:
Every house has unisex bathrooms, what is the issue exactly again?
Click to expand...

I guess it comes down to sharing bathrooms with people of the opposite gender that you don't know, especially where you're sharing it with them at the same time. At your house you seldom, if ever, share a bathroom with a stranger at the same time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top