Why?
The only reason I can fathom is that we have male and female toilets to keep people who are sexually attracted to one another seperate, but then surely that would mean you'd need a straight male toilet, straight female toilet, and a gay toilet- so that doesn't seem to make sense.
It might have made sense back when people were pretty uppity about things like that (and didn't believe that gay people existed), but now it seems to be only some arbitrary cultural decision.
If anyone has any idea, please explain in the comment section?
ID:32576
 Jul 13 2007, 6:48 pm
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Solution: Replace them with cubicles?
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If you're married, you don't want your wife going into a bathroom with a bunch of dudes. Nor does she want you going into a bathroom with a bunch of women.
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Still happens :[
(@Elation's solution) | |
Yeah I'm thinking that's pretty much a breeding ground for sexual harassment lawsuits.
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Gug- so if I was married to another guy, I wouldn't want him going into a toilet with other guys?
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I personally wouldn't mind adding that third "Gay People" restroom....although that wouldn't help the Gay people with an issue like Vortezz has*.
*- No, I didn't call him, or anyone else with shy bladder syndrome gay, just to clear that up. | |
Well I'm confused now (it's 5 AM), but I've just realised that if you had a seperate gay room they'd still be with people they were attracted to. Now I'm really confused. Would you have to have seperate rooms for each gay person? Maybe a gay guy could be coupled with a straight woman for one toilet session?
Or, y'know, maybe we could just simplify it all by having mixed gender toilets. | |
But then you have the straight people being sexually harassed, and the gay people.
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Girls are going to be more disturbed/offended by a guy standing there peeing in the open.
Guys don't really care for the tampon/pad business that happens in girl toilets. It's easy that way. | |
I'm fairly sure that girls don't apply tampons with one leg up on the sink, the other hand on the handdryer to keep them steady- asking others around them, "is it in yet?".
Likewise, replacing urinals with cubicles would solve the other problem. | |
Gay people* are always making it hard. Why can't the world be more black and white? I wish it was the 50s. (I wish we could be happy.)
*Minorities are a problem too. Poor people. The handicapped. Gypsies! Still, keeps us on our toes. More interesting this way- better to be human and troubled*2 than be eloi and get picked off by ettins by night. *2 Not that I'm seriously saying the aforementioned are "trouble". Black people*3 are the trouble. *3 These jokes were tired and old a long time ago. I think I'm just going to give up the comedy circuit altogether. :( | |
If that's how tampons were put it, guys would be interested. The stereotypical ones anyway.
Cubicles wouldn't help much either, because I doubt many would bother shutting the door if they were only peeing. | |
Auto-locking doors. And toilets that detect how much water has been displaced then calculate exactly how much water is needed to flush the contents away. Oh- and robots that wash your hands for you!
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Worldweaver wrote:
Yeah I'm thinking that's pretty much a breeding ground for sexual harassment lawsuits. Flashbacks to Deus Ex. | |
She was stealing from the storeroom, anyway. I gunned her down like the theif she was (that said, I gunned down everyone in the building).
Also- your only flashback of sexual harrassment in toilets is from a computer game? You need to get out more, man. Go hang around in more toilets! | |
I've often been told I need more of a social life, but I don't think hanging around female toilets (or male toilets for that matter) is what most people meant...
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Think of it this way. Would YOU want to watch a female try to use a wall-mounted toilet?
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They meant "faecal life", Crispy.
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If the bathrooms are de-segregated, I will lose all hope of peeing in public restrooms forever. :[
... unless after the influence of a few drinks, that is.