3w ago

"No"

Madison, Wisconsin @real.lemmy.fan

oleorun @real.lemmy.fan

2w ago

"No"

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I went to a board game convention a month ago, it was the first time I've girlmoded for something major. They put their own signs over the bathroom signs explaining that both were gender neutral and the only difference was urinals vs stalls. That made it soooo much easier on me and I was very glad
- I'm a dude and i want stalls every time. I HATE pissing in a urinal next to a bunch of other people and get piss splashed on everything. So so so many bacteria.
  
  There are well-designed urinals now that don't splash back. Add to that, If there's a divider, then the urinal is convenient, quicker and imo cleaner because you don't have to touch the stall door or lock to close it and you're not pissing on the seat or sitting down. It's literally no-contact
  
  If I can, and it's clean, I always prefer to sit down to piss. I just want a break, man. Leave me alone for 5.
  
  I love urinals, carefree pissing
  
  I want a urinal in a stall
  
  In my experience public toilets are so badly maintained that I'd rather avoid touching any porcelain besides that of the sink. That's one of the main reasons I go for urinals. It's also often the most direct way to achieve my objectives if my only goal is to urinate, unless there are other people in which case I hover around waiting for one urinal to become less crowded or just use a stall if it doesn't look disgusting.
  
  Maybe you should do something about that UTI
- Indeed, I'm a furry and a few conventions I go to, even in red states, have temporary rebranding of the bathrooms to gender neutral for the duration of the convention as a requirement that the Hotel must maintain in order to keep the convention's business.
  And since furries are either suspiciously wealthy or poor, but dedicated, it's a wise economic decision for said Hotel.
- Which happens to be exactly what the place in OP does.
  
  I had assumed, hence my loosely related story
- That is a sensationally good idea.
- I don't think only gender neutral bathrooms is the way to go. There should be an all gender bathroom and a woman's bathroom. Unfortunately we live in a world where women may still feel understandably uncomfortable with men in the bathroom with them.
  Note: To be clear I'm not saying the women's bathroom should be for cis women only, it should only exclude men.

Here's a little known fact, gender neutral bathrooms are just bathrooms.
- The gender neutral bathroom's already in your house!
  
  They are also in your neighbor's house too! Get the pitchforks!
- It drives me crazy to see a single occupancy bathroom in a public space labeled as gender neutral... Just say bathroom... Or even worse they went out of the way to change it from bathroom to gender neutral... Looking at you taco bell...
- My son goes to a gender neutral school, my daughter goes to a gender neutral daycare, I work in a gender neutral office, and shop at gender neutral shops.

If I was near here, I’d go to this place just because of this
- It's pretty great. It took over the spot of a gay bar in town which had evolved to be more of a general bar while being explicitly LGBTQ+ friendly. They had to shut down for various reasons. I/O took it over and has largely continued being LGBTQ+ friendly, but now with more pinball tables and old arcade games.
  
  where?
  
  The fact public places need to explicitely say they are LGBT friendly makes our society feel dystopian. It's as if they had to say they are black people friendly or Jew friendly.

Gendered bathrooms should not need to exist because bathrooms should have some dammed privacy.
In the US, there’s a door for boys and one for girls. Behind each is a giant room with some sinks and some toilets that may as well be using cardboard and tinfoil for privacy.
Go somewhere more pleasant like Sweden? You have a short hallway with 3 or 4 doors on each side, and behind each is a small restroom including a sink and a mirror.
Every real and maga-hallucinated bathroom problem largely solved.
- I love the idea behind gender neutral bathrooms, but I really wish they weren't just a band-aid on the problem that is disgusting American bathrooms.
  I didn't realize how much better it could be until I went to Japan. Floor to ceiling walls, doors with curvature where the door and wall meet completely eliminating door gap, buttons to play music or water sounds...wtf America. Might as well be pissing in a prison in some bathrooms here.
- And if you wanna save money on too many sinks and such there is already a solution for that. Many places have the sink and mirror outside the bathroom and shared between both gendered bathrooms.
  
  If you want to save time, money, and water, one of my favorite venues has toilets that have sinks on top of them so the water used to wash hands is collected in the tank as grey water to flush the toilet.

The fact that stalls exist kinda makes me question why, outside of poorly aged "values" we even have gendered restrooms.
- I don't know if it's the reason, or just a side effect, but I'm pretty sure it prevents a bunch of sexual assault, or at least makes some people feel safer.
  
  I feel like that's the only justification I've ever really heard, but I find it to be rather flimsy. It assumes that someone willing to assault someone else would be deterred by a sign. It also assumes that assaults only happen across genders and not within, which is either very narrow-minded or willfully obstinate.
  Personally, I would think individual unisex bathrooms that each contain their own sink would be the safest option. You enter fully aware and lock the door behind yourself, only leaving once you are fully aware and alert again. Given that the common area between stalls is essentially public, you could have cameras observing the entrance without invading privacy and capturing anyone attempting to force their way in or tailgate someone entering a stall. Better, safer, gender neutral.
  
  This is the justification.
  My only comment to that is: the "women's washroom" sign isn't going to stop an attacker.
- because men's restrooms are covered in piss
  
  I identify as a man and accidentally went into the women's bathroom at the supermarket.
  It smelled like blood, tampons on the floor, and there was a woman crying in the stall.
  I'll take the piss floors.
  
  So are the women's, men aren't special.
  
  From what I've heard from janitors, the women's rooms can be outright disturbing. Like period blood murals on the wall.
  
  Haha, I can tell you never cleaned retail bathrooms... cries
  
  There's this place i go to where they have 2 single-person bathrooms, but they're still gendered. Maybe this is the reason

"What kind of bathroom does your home have?"
- Well, I guess since there are no urinals, it's for women. Men will just have to find a tree or corner outside.
  
  no urinals
  That's what the bathtub/shower is for!

Imagine the amount of small businesses that would be put under if they had to pay for vastly more bathrooms because someone can't be creepy.
- Imagine thinking that most businesses don't just have one gender neutral *toilet
  It's not a bathroom, or a restroom
  You're not taking a bath or having a kip, it's a fucking toilet you prudes 😂
  
  Sez you! I do plenty of napping on the company shitter.

Mfw "rule" isn't in the title:
- “Finally.”

Overhyped. i don't like the comment above. they make it seem like a big thing. i don like these kinds of posts..
when a post has "absolute legend" as the title, that reads to me like a youtube title like "We DESTROYED
<popular thing>
FOREVER!" or "This EASY trick is a GAME CHANGER". gooooddddd (im in complain mode now sorrii)
- Smorty HATES this one simple comment
  
  196 poster SLAMMED by Smorty
  
  Reason #5 will SHOCK you!

I wish reviews used a "web of trust" so I could discard votes by Anders Holmvik and anyone who agrees with him frequently.
- You ever feeling like these echo chambers just aren't echoing enough?
  
  Sure do. Insufferable dickheads just won't stop trying to force their way in, no matter how blatantly unwelcome they are.
  
  I can understand how "get rid of gender neutral bathrooms" is though-provoking intellectual discussion to you, but I've already considered that reactionary perspective enough to reject it.

This is in my hometown!! Absolutely one of my favorite spots. And I cheered out loud when I saw this response a couple days ago. I/O is legendary.
- They should paint a door on a brick wall and label it "super male". And have a sign saying "dorry you aren't male enough"

Anders Holmvik
What a colossal piece of shit
- Nah, this guy? Look at that smile.
  
  The dude from Workaholics?
  
  Holmvik is the guy who shot a bunch of kids at a summer camp in Norway... I think. I forget the country.
  
  That's Anders Holm. From Workaholics.
- He has a hard an

Posted "Just Now" 🤔

Beyond gender, as a father of two girls, i fucking love gender neutral bathrooms. Your establishment has gn bathrooms you've doubled the odds of me returning.

Uh… Does the username “Anders Holmvik” have anything to do with Anders Breivik, or is that just a normal Scandinavian name?
- Anders Holmvik is one of the three main characters in the show Workaholics.
  The character is played by actor and co-creator of the show Anders Holm.
  Vik or vig, in Scandinavian languages, means inlet or bay and is rather common as part of a placename. Therefore also somewhat common as a family name, since these tend to reflect origin of a given family.
  I can recommend the show, it is funny, albeit rather stupid.
  
  They also have a podcast that is pretty dang funny, and I wasn't even a huge workaholics fan.
- It's the name of one of the main characters in the Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics.

“Why would we buy two”

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