Try this one European secret, also no more gaps around the stall doors please.
Animal shithouses
I went to an Alamo Drafthouse once with an interesting bathroom set up.
When you walk up to the restroom, there’s a large bay of sinks. To the left is a door that leads to a room of urinals and to the right is a hallway of stalls. Everyone just goes where they need to and since the sinks are out in the open where everyone sees and passes by, there’s more social pressure to wash your hands.
The best, bar none, engendered public restroom I’ve ever seen was less of a restroom and more of an area. It was basically just a hallway coming from a main area in the establishment. The hallway was lined with doors. Each was a “stall” that was just a closet with a toilet. Full hight doors for privacy. At the far end of the hall was a line of sinks to wash your hands afterwards.
Now, do I think this is perfect and cannot be improved? Hell no. It’s pretty flawed, but I’ll tell you that it’s less flawed than what most buildings that are open to the public have… Far less flawed. Gendered bathrooms are weird. IDK why people are so adamant about keeping them. I mean, I don’t have a men’s room and a ladies room at my house, do you?
Bonus tip: If there’s no witnesses around, you can put an official-looking unisex bathroom sign on any stray bathroom. Most people aren’t gonna question it.
That’s great. Unisex bathroom guerilla tactics.
Don’t tell the fascists that the bathrooms in their homes are unisex.
Or on airplanes.
Jesus only used unisex bathrooms.
I hear you, but that bathroom is not used by random people, and it’s also a ‘single stall’ essentially, so hardly a great comparison.
it’s also a ‘single stall’
You’re almost there.
My partner and I practice synchronized shitting where one person sits normally and the other sits on top facing the tank.
It takes a bit of practice but we’re pretty good at it now.
Conveniently, the shower is in the same room.
I bet you could fit another three or four people there!
When I had digestive issues, I was a shy pooper, and just the thought of a stranger lady, let alone a stranger dude making eye contact thru the stall gap was… Unpleasant. Now that I learned very simple exercises to push the poop thru the intestines, and I drop human scat that could choke an anaconda. You are all welcome to bask in my glory in a unisex bathroom if that is truly what you wish.
stall gap
Just get rid of the door gap too. Having a gap in the bathroom stall instead of a proper door is an American thing, not a public rest room thing.
There’s only really two things I want in life now.
Bathroom stalls that you can’t see in.
And to be an anaconda.
Stop splitting kids by genitals too. No need to divide people early, it just creates…this.
My fifth grader is going to go through his “human growth and development” series this spring in school, and they’ve stopped separating them by gender and everyone is all in the same classroom. Very different than when I did it in the mid-90s. It’s especially good because there’s kid at school who is nonbinary and I know of at least one other who is questioning.
All for it though it’s best done when renovations are possible. Was at a place where they did it with multistall bathrooms and you had to guess which one had urinals.
Edit: of course could also just add a sign saying urinals here.
There should be two restrooms. One with only stalls, one with only urinals. That way we get the efficiency gains of urinals (very important at football stadiums), and nobody has to see a dick if they don’t want to.
I mean, I don’t know who goes to public bathrooms to see dick. I don’t even want to be in there in the first place. Seeing someone else’s bits is pretty low on the list of things I want to see in there, right above shit smeared walls.
At over 50 years old, I don’t think I’ve ever seen another man’s dick in a bathroom.
Hint all these people who are worried are the meat gazers. Same thing with the dudes who want to hang out as “guards”. Go in take a piss/shit then leave. In Europe they have these 4 way open urinals on the street walk up piss sun shining on your head, squirt of hand sanitizer. Back to the pub/work. No chaos ensued society was unaffected.
I’ve seen more dicks in the streets than at urinals.
There should be two restrooms. One with only stalls, one with only urinals. That way we get the efficiency gains of urinals (very important at football stadiums), and nobody has to see a dick if they don’t want to.
Ohio deliberately structured their law to prevent this…
Unisex private bathrooms are great, sure, but I’d guess the majority of mothers wouldn’t want to bring their children into bathroom men are whipping their dicks out in. Coeds have a whole different life journey their on in their nascent post pubescence, in terms of safety and body freedom. I mean, if that’s what’s being championed here, whooo boy, lol, yeah, that’s not going to work out.
Guys aren’t whipping their dicks around like pool noodles in men’s restrooms.
You realize people go to the bathroom to pee and poop, right? Nobody’s slingin’ their dicks around and having sword fights.
If there were no problems, specifically with men, in bathrooms, why don’t Trans Women want to use the Men’s bathroom?
Let me rephrase your question.
Why does a subset of women choose the women’s bathroom, instead of men’s bathroom?
Mhm I don’t know… Maybe… Just maybe… Because they are women? And they want to live their lives as what they are?
Not sure.
But OP wants there to be unisex bathrooms, and the reason for this entire comment thread, and that’s in direct contrast to what you just said, wouldn’t this subset still want there to be women only bathrooms if they want to live their lives as what they are, without having to share the bathroom with men? * edit: not sure
Yeah they would want to live as other women do. They, as women, would do as other women would do and go to the unisex toilet.
There are some unisex toilets, cis and trans women have happily used these toilets.
I am interested in that direct contrast, wanna explain?
Just asking questions, huh?
I’m having a hard time seeing the issue here. Dads bring their kids to the bathroom too. And if you mean changing diapers, most changing stations are right next to the entrance.
Single-person bathrooms? Of course. Multi-person use? How many of y’all women want to share a confined space with random men?
Wait till you realize a little plastic sign doesn’t prevent an assault.
But it keeps out around 50% of the population whose presence would deter assault. People usually don’t get assaulted in a place with a lot of random witnesses.
Are you concerned the women are going to be attacked in the bathroom or is it about discovering that women also take shits?
My grandmother always said that women don’t fart, they toot. Didn’t exactly hold true when she ripped one when she thought nobody would hear her.
Your dad probably said she wasn’t a whore either, but you should probably consult your grandfather.
I dunno, maybe mothers aren’t going to want to bring their children into bathrooms men are whipping their dicks out in. Just a thought.
This is the second time you’ve commented about men “whipping their dicks out” in public restrooms.
You seem to have zero worries about men bringing their children into bathrooms where women are whipping their vag out though…
Is it because women don’t whip their vag out in public restrooms? Well, have I got news for you about what men go to the restroom for…
(Hint: it doesn’t involve whipping.)
it doesn’t involve whipping
I dunno. When I shake my dick after peeing, I like it to make a sonic boom.
Question how many dicks have you seen out in the men’s room?
I’ll go out on a limb here and guess the former
Well with the bathrooms divided shitty things already happen. I’d actually like to counter your point and say this’ll actually improve the issue. If someone has a bunch of guys ready to beat their ass if they do something fucked up, they might decide against it. Literally everyone in that bathroom would have to be a piece of shit person to let something like that happen whereas right now you just need one piece of shit to sneak into the other bathroom.
Say you’ve never been to NYC without saying it, you ever walked by a homeless guy jacking off? I’m also distrusting your “group of guys ready to beat ass hanging out in the bathroom.” Who signs up for that bedside weird perverts?
A random homeless dude jerking off in the streets is not even in the same ballpark as someone getting raped in a bathroom, cmon. And it’s not something you “sign up for”, if you’re not a piece of shit, you see someone in danger that you can maybe help, you try to help them. They aren’t saying there’s literally just a group of dudes sitting in a bathroom waiting for someone to try something, they’re saying in a bathroom full of dudes, there’s a pretty high chance if something does happen, they’re not all going to just sit around or walk out.
Lol your fucking weird. Enjoy homeless dudes jerking off your super friends in the bathroom.
Uhh… ok? Not sure what I did to offend you, but sorry, I think…
Edit: can someone else tell me what’s weird? I don’t think anyone would compare seeing a mentally unwell person fondling their wiener to getting straight up assaulted, and I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t try to stop someone from being assaulted if they could help. Where am I off?
Nah, don’t listen to them. You got it right.
The first recruit! Your gonna have so much fun in that bathroom beating asses and jerking off with homeless dudes because that’s totally not sexual assault.
I’m probably out of touch but…what do we actually expect to happen?
Would guys be embarrassed that random girls might see their dick at a urinal?
Do we expect random sex in public bathrooms?
Disclosure that I do not have a dick.
Some people seem to think that public toilets need urinals and that urinals couldn’t be at e.g. the end of the toilet behind a cover, so people don’t have an accidental peek on a dick.
On entry, A sideview of the urinals and potential dicks are mandatory. If not at least 6 women see me pee against their will, I will sue the government. Look at my dick, woman!!!/s
People are just weird and can imagine that, like you don’t go out of your way to look at people change in locker rooms, you don’t go out of your way to see dicks on a public bathroom and that obviously unisex toilets would change how we build toilets.
As a man, I haven’t seen an other man’s dick on the toilet in months… Honestly I think years but I don’t want to lie.
Why is a “girl” standing next to me at the urinal? Lol oh Thailand you got me again.
I absolutely would not care in the slightest. If they get weird or handsy they are getting pepper spray and charges pressed.
Edit: typo
And at the same time if you had a bunch of other guys in the bathroom to beat his ass that’d be a plus too. I ain’t afraid to punch a pervert in his stupid face.
I think you mean handsy, handsome folk can’t help being handsome
Well, if they don’t find you handsome, hopefully they’ll find you handy… just gotta keep a roll of duck tape for emergencies.
You’re right, I can’t help it.
Yeah. Autocorrect got me. Thanks.
Maybe just better Multiperson bathrooms or single person only?
Honestly Bukiees the gas station, has a pretty great Multiperson bathroom experience. Add just a little more to that so that they washing area can be fully public (i.e. cameras), and for some places with less traffic some occupancy sensors for the toilet rooms, and bam. We can have private, safe feeling bathrooms that can handle higher volumes. No need to have people feel like their in little assault traps regardless of gender.
