In the US at least, the women’s restrooms used to say “colored”
The reason we still have gendered bathrooms is because we didn’t change building codes for bathrooms and water fountains after segregation.
Huh, that makes sense.
You’ll also see double water fountains and double sinks in Jim Crow era installations.
Male and female restrooms and the neutral bathroom is good enough.
Yesterday I was at a rave with all-gender restrooms. Just as big bathroom predicted it was total mayhem. People queueing, making smalltalk, doing the things people do at the bathroom. I’m so thankful big bathroom protects us from this madness /s
Before the 1960s people just shat in the woods.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Sometimes
Only is someone is there to hear it.
Closest one to Vatican is like 10 min drive or 40-ish min walk. It’s most likely forbidden to shit there plus it’s also unlikely that he makes the trip every time he needs to go. They might have a secret forest hidden underneath the Vatican, however. We may never know.
Dan Brown knows the secret but he doesn’t want to say it. Dan Brown, it was in front of us the whole time.
Lmao. That was good, ty
What am I, a theologian?
Public restrooms were campaigned for by suffragettes because women were unable to leave their homes for any period without them. Men would just wee against a fence.
That’s the Victorian era for you. But for many earlier centuries women went out all the time to take care of various errands, so they must have had some form of acceptable public peeing, even if it’s not written down for us to study. Maybe they just gathered up their skirts and squatted behind a designated bush. Definitely sounds like the kind of thing Queen Victoria would have suppressed.
You wouldn’t download a bathroom
Of course not, you download to a bathroom.
I make an upload to the toilet a couple times a day.
The only issue I have with unisex bathrooms is that by the end of the night women’s bathrooms look like a horror movie.
I used to work at a gas station. I’d have to clean the bathrooms once per shift.
The mens bathroom? A couple of wet spots next to the toilet. I always attributed this to the guys who end up getting multiple streams, and don’t know what to do.
The womens bathroom? Look. I know women bleed once a month. I get it. But ladies, what the fuck are you doing in the gas station bathrooms??? Are you having coat hanger abortions??? Is it like a woman thing to all contribute to one communal blood pool? There is no way these nightly horror scenes all came from one person unless they had a recently chopped off limb! Is Freddie Kruger attacking you ladies while you’re pooping? I have never figured out what the womens bathroom experience is, but it has SHATTERED any illusion to me that women are cleaner/neater than men. We may leave dirty laundry around the house for days, but you gals have an exorcism as you toot.
See, this is why everyone says girls don’t poop. They DON’T poop. They disembowel.
It’s even worse in clubs. I’ve seen pads and tampons stuck to the walls, random objects in the toilet, soiled panties left on the floor. And this isn’t the extremes either. This is a normal fri-sat.
Absolutely. It’s night and day the minute you add alcohol into the mix. I remember telling my old boss I wouldn’t clean the women’s bathroom after weddings anymore unless I got hazard pay.
What is with the tampom wall thing?
No idea, that was by far the worst part.
Played a show in Cambridge, MA back in 2007. After the show I needed to take a shit so they told me to use the women’s room since the men’s room was only urinals.
Women’s room toilet had soft serve instead of a toilet seat. Someone literally just shit on top of the toilet. I chalked it up to a Massachusetts thing and moved to Colorado.
Big Bathroom replaced my toilet with joke toilet that has a smaller hole that’s just for farts and now I can’t even take a shit in my own house!
YOU’RE NOT PART OF THE TURBO TEAM! YOU WALK!
SLOWLY!
That’s fucked up. I know a dude. Call 1-888-555-Mitch
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In coordination with big bathroom!
I’m noticing a pattern here.
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I’m all for all-gender bathrooms, but there MUST be at least two public bathrooms at any given spot. I can’t tell you how uncomfortable it is to take a first date to a museum, both need to use the bathroom, and walk into the single, silent, all-gender bathroom, and try to pretend you can’t hear each other doing your business. I assume gay folks have been struggling with this since the beginning, but y’all should have said something
first date to a museum
You had me until this fake detail, don’t lie to us.
The torture museum in amsterdam after doing shrooms
Yes please - are you gay?
I’m married but if I wasn’t I’d absolutely take a first date to a museum. First of all I love museums, but it gives you something to talk about constantly in order to find common ground and get to deeper subjects.
I think we should get over hangups like this. Oh well you heard each other piss. Big pissing deal. If one or both of you were shitting that’s just bad date planning. Shit and get off before you go on a date.
I agree that societally we should get over it, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s an awkward activity on a first date
Fuck this idea. It would screw up everything. I judge my dates on the fortitude of flatulence. Stop trying to make the bathroom woke.
This is why i don’t understand why bathroom companies aren’t creating more genders in order to create more bathrooms.
But they have to be careful because otherwise people might realize it’s cheaper and easier to just label bathrooms with “sitting” and “sitting+standing”.
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I must be doing it wrong. I gave birth to some kidney stones years ago.
Do not reccomend.
Or by women so they have something to never shut up about. It’s been 55 years, mom!
Fucking patriarchy strikes again
They needed to induce bathroom demand after the end of segregation
integrating this into my belief system
I had to look this up. It seems gendered bathrooms are very old.
I cannot vouch for this site, but it introduces interesting history. https://historyqa.com/gendered-bathrooms-history/
(The version of history needs to be confirmed and scholarly sources I found have broken URLs.)
It’s sort of the other way. Buildings in the southern US before the 1960s, besides having gendered bathrooms, also had separate bathrooms for white and black people. So 4 kinds of bathrooms. The Pentagon today is apparently a bathroom user’s paradise, because it was built in the 1940s with enough bathroom capacity for all its users even having the 4 kinds of bathrooms. Then after desegregation, its bathrooms got consolidated into just 2 kinds (by gender). So it now has 2x more bathroom capacity per person than newer office buildings have.
Jeez. I always thought IBS would prevent a pentagon job, maybe the Pentagon was just designed for IBS in a way.
are you sure its 2 times the capacity per person now? Because that makes no sense. Without additional info, there should be the same amount of people using the same capacity of bathrooms now.
Just the number of bathrooms usable per person has changed, so you are more likely to have a bathroom nearby. But you don’t have more room or more toilets per sé.
No, not after all the govt workers got laid off for no reason.
