How do you feel about Uni-sex Bathrooms?

I think it's Bur's life-goal to freak us the fuck out.

Yeah, uni-sex bathrooms only would go very poorly in school, I'll tell you that much...

I am now known as Flyboy.

I'm just that lucky.

edited 1st Oct '11 10:27:01 PM by Bur

i. hear. a. sound.

@Bur: You're 5 and 0

Well, I already use co-ed bathrooms with multiple stalls. It's not too bad. Because it's always used by the same group of people, the usual arguments spring up about how to leave the seat and which sex has the worst hygiene. I guess you wouldn't have that in public bathrooms.

Urinals might be a bit awkward (from a girl's perspective), but I guess the men would be facing the wall so you wouldn't see anything unless you tried to.

All in all, I don't see any problem with it. You're there to take care of basic bodily functions, so just do it and get out. Having a man hear you pee isn't noticably more awkward than a woman.

Be not afraid...

Guys are already immature as it is and I don't want to have my moment of peace disturbed by a guy making immature taunting sounds.

Because girls are never immature?

I am now known as Flyboy.

If it's a bathroom with stalls, not a problem.

If it's one with urinals... No. It's awkward enough already when you have to use one and there are other males in the bathroom.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Report him for sexual harassment if he does it more than once *shrug* What are they going to say? "You pee like a girl"?

Seriously, though, I have yet to have that happen.

edited 1st Oct '11 10:42:24 PM by LoniJay

Be not afraid...

Joyflower I'm beginning to think you believe All Men Are Perverts.

I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -Wanderlustwarrior

USAF@I know girls are immature but guys just have a special kind of immaturity that I can't stand.Also I want some privacy and I dislike seeing a man's you know what in a quasi-public area even if its by accident.

Its not All Men Are Perverts but just a lot of guys espically teenage and young adult guys won't be mature about this.I can also see my gender as well taking advantage of this as well.

edited 1st Oct '11 10:40:08 PM by joyflower

Then don't look. Everyone has their own stall.

If it was all stalls, then it probably wouldn't even matter. It would be hilarious when the fat dude goes in and farts, though.

I am now known as Flyboy.

My residence hall had them for my freshman year at college. Not only did it have several stalls, it had a couple showers (behind curtains, obviously,) and it was one of the neater and better maintained communal bathrooms I've ever used. It never caused any awkwardness that I noticed, but apparently it bothered some people enough that they segregated them the next year.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

People make so little interaction with each other in the bathroom as it is. Just because both genders are in there doesn't mean all hell breaks loose.

Honestly you have a better chance of something creepy going down at a public beach or pool where someone's bathing suit can just, you know, be pulled right off.

I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -Wanderlustwarrior

I can't say I would care much if this became common, because I avoid public bathrooms at all costs.

I would have thought it would be weird, but hearing the stories from other people who've experienced it, it doesn't sound too bad. Except for the tampon mural; that's just fucked up.

As much as I like the single-toilet unisex bathroom at work, I don't like having to share it with guys that leave the seat up and CAN'T SEEM TO AIM. Is it really that hard, guys?

If they've recently had an orgasm, yeah, it can be hard to predict trajectory.

"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko

For what it's worth, I've never seen a unisex bathroom that had urinals—all they have are stalls.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

^^There's also pube tangle and the after-effects of swim suits.

But yeah, the major pros and cons of unisex bathrooms outside of the social aspect really depend on the building. Sometimes there may be a retaining wall that separates the male and female restrooms, in which case it would be more complicated and expensive to rearrange things.

In other instances, you might save a few bucks on drywall.

Anywho, this topic's already come up in YF.

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@feo: Urinals are sexist.

“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard

^ A better way to phrase it would be that in a bathroom equally used by males and females, urinals have a reduced utility that isn't made up for by the fact that they take up less space than stalls.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

http://transgender2transhuman.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html

Assuming posthumans would need bathrooms.

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Of course, then this will just lead to all the bathrooms being gross.

Personally, I couldn't care less. As long as it's relatively clean.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw