Replace all instances of "man" or "male" with "penis".

Personally, I like this idea. But then, I'm a hermaphrodite.

How about ending the sexual discrimination completely, and just having... "Toilet"?

Won't someone please think of the trannies and cross dressers?

corsec67: How about ending the sexual discrimination completely, and just having... "Toilet"?

I don't know... Men and women have completely different rules regarding restroom etiquette. Men don't talk or make eye contact, whereas women can carry on conversations and don't really avoid looking anywhere other than a closed stall.

If both genders shared public restrooms, I think women would feel uncomfortable with men using urinals in their presence because they haven't been trained not to look there, and men would feel uncomfortable with women continuing their conversations even into the stalls.

I thought it was illegal to have men going into the same restroom women use when there can be more than one person in the restroom.

A single toilet by itself is fine, however if more than one person can use the restroom at one time, i thought legally they had to be separate genders.

would this even be legal in the US with the laws regarding dealing with Blind, Illiterate or other things covered under the ADA?

When I was eleven or twelve my mother made me up as a girl for a Halloween costume party at school. Apparently she did a pretty good job because several people who knew me didn't even recognize me. It was all good fun until I had to pee. I remember trying to decide which restroom I should use. I didn't want to cause a fuss if someone saw a "girl" going into the boy's room and I couldn't use the girl's room because ... well ... because I'm not a girl. I finally gave up and just went outside behind a building.

No, this isn't all that relevant to the topic, but I don't get many occasions to bring up that anecdote.

Forty-Two: If both genders shared public restrooms, I think women would feel uncomfortable with men using urinals in their presence because they haven't been trained not to look there, and men would feel uncomfortable with women continuing their conversations even into the stalls.

And that would change with time, if toilets were desegregated.

How about ending the confusion for those poor transgendered people by putting up signs that say, "If you have a penis, use this restroom" and "If you have a vagina, use this restroom"?

No matter what sex your brain tells you that you are, it's as easy as looking down to tell whether you have a penis or a vagina.

Psychotropic: How about ending the confusion for those poor transgendered people by putting up signs that say, "If you have a penis, use this restroom" and "If you have a vagina, use this restroom"?

No matter what sex your brain tells you that you are, it's as easy as looking down to tell whether you have a penis or a vagina.

Because if someone lives as female regardless of genitalia, they should be allowed to use the women's restroom. The same goes for transmen.

I'd rather there was a third option for bathrooms, something that was 'unisex'. But if you gotta go, you gotta go.

Psychotropic: How about ending the confusion for those poor transgendered people by putting up signs that say, "If you have a penis, use this restroom" and "If you have a vagina, use this restroom"?

No matter what sex your brain tells you that you are, it's as easy as looking down to tell whether you have a penis or a vagina.

What about people with a penis wearing a skirt and makeup?

corsec67: What about people with a penis wearing a skirt and makeup?

penis = anatomically male
how much simpler could it be?
it has nothing to do with what you think you are, it's basic biology being used to choose a room for a basic biological function.

Psychotropic
penis = anatomically male
how much simpler could it be?
it has nothing to do with what you think you are, it's basic biology being used to choose a room for a basic biological function.


It's not always that simple.


It's a matter of safety as well. If someone looks and identifies as male, why should they have to use the ladies restroom? Don't you think the women there would freak out? Vice versa, if someone looks and identifies as female, it's not particularly safe for them to use the men's room. Why not just let them use the ladies room?

I didn't realize there was anything sexist or offensive about referring to someone as a "Man" or a "Woman"

Thank you, arbitrary political correctness.

The PC police strike again!

I have a wide stance on this.

Farking northern fairies.

I wouldn't mind intersex bathrooms myself. Guess it makes some folks uncomfortable, but I wouldn't care.

Wait, don't they already have their own bathroom?

Political Correctness has resulted in economic woes, lower quality of life, less freedoms, and natural disasters in places such as bumblefark Kansas, North Carolina, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, etc. for the past century.

/end thread

This PC thing is getting out of control.

Either you're a DICK or you're a coont!

myalias1845: Wait, don't they already have their own bathroom?

I still remember, as a small child, believing that symbol represented a man sitting on his toilet.

Riiighht... because you totally can't see the GIANT FARKING PICTURE OF A FEMALE BEHIND THE TINY TOILET SIGN!!

/que the facepalm

The slumbering elder god community frowns on these shenanigans. They forgot the third label:



Z1P2: Riiighht... because you totally can't see the GIANT FARKING PICTURE OF A FEMALE BEHIND THE TINY TOILET SIGN!!

/que the facepalm

Apparently her breasts are toilets.

/brb, scrubbing brain

shared toilets are bad for men for the simple reason that women's toilets tend to by way,way dirtier. Women are pigs when it comes to public toilet manners.

shivashakti: It's not always that simple.

It's a matter of safety as well. If someone looks and identifies as male, why should they have to use the ladies restroom? Don't you think the women there would freak out? Vice versa, if someone looks and identifies as female, it's not particularly safe for them to use the men's room. Why not just let them use the ladies room?

Is your irony intentional?

Anyway, for the change that was made to be a solution to the scenarios that you have posed, we require the following:

1) Prior to the change, someone who "looks and identifies as male", but doesn't have a penis, must have "had issues" when wishing/attempting to use the restroom with the "MEN" sign on the door.

2) After the change, someone who "looks and identifies as male", but doesn't have a penis, must not have had those issues when wishing/attempting to use the restroom with the "TOILETS AND URINALS" sign on the door.

I have my doubts about both of those conditions being met.

In a side note:
"She felt the basement would be the most appropriate area to trial this. This was agreed."
I'm not a big fan of the use of 'trial' as a verb. The word you are looking for is 'try'.

WFern: myalias1845: Wait, don't they already have their own bathroom?

I still remember, as a small child, believing that symbol represented a man person sitting on his their toilet.

FTFY you sexist bastard

bikkurikun: shared toilets are bad for men for the simple reason that women's toilets tend to by way,way dirtier. Women are pigs when it comes to public toilet manners.

Whatever troll.

That reminds me. From what I've heard, the guys at my work are starting this HUGE boogar collection at one of the urinals. Apparently it's getting out of control with people writing quotes by them and creating comics. I need to sneak in their one of these days.

Does that mean if I have to empty my bowels, I can now do so in the womens room?

myalias1845: bikkurikun: shared toilets are bad for men for the simple reason that women's toilets tend to by way,way dirtier. Women are pigs when it comes to public toilet manners.

Whatever troll.

That reminds me. From what I've heard, the guys at my work are starting this HUGE boogar collection at one of the urinals. Apparently it's getting out of control with people writing quotes by them and creating comics. I need to sneak in their one of these days.

No troll. I had worked for a cleaning company in college for a summer or two, it's true. I think everyone who has had a similar job can confirm this.

If you are too much of a freak show to understand the concept of 'Male' and 'Female' bathrooms, you probably shouldn't be leaving the house, much less mucking around with trying to change common terminology to assuage your craziness.

myalias1845: bikkurikun: shared toilets are bad for men for the simple reason that women's toilets tend to by way,way dirtier. Women are pigs when it comes to public toilet manners.

Whatever troll.

That reminds me. From what I've heard, the guys at my work are starting this HUGE boogar collection at one of the urinals. Apparently it's getting out of control with people writing quotes by them and creating comics. I need to sneak in their one of these days.

Actually, at my work I have heard the ladies room is worse. Of course there are also far fewer men, so our bathroom really doesn't get much traffic. We do, however, get the occasional Car and Driver or Road and Track because of the tire distribution office down the hall.

I've seen a lot of ladies rooms in my tenure in the work force and I've got to say that I don't blame the trannies one bit - women's washrooms are waay dirtier.

The men's room might look dirtier, but vandalism is cleanliness neutral really - it won't infect you with anything!

Sounds like the usual irrelevant PC-crap that comes out of student union types before they graduate to a life of fast-food counter service.

That said, I agree with subby - watching a bunch of drunk engineers try to figure this out late on a Friday night will be funny as hell.

I should be asleep.

Lemme break it down for you.

-You have to defecate. Hence, you are going to be sitting down.

*If you dress, groom, and "self-identify" as a male, use The Men's Room.

*If you dress, groom, and "self-identify" as a female, use The Ladies' Room.

-You have to urinate.

If you dress, groom, and "self-identify" as a male, and have a penis, use The Men's Room (not that you needed it explained to you). You can use a urinal, if available, or you can sit on a toilet if you have some irrational fear that someone wants to watch your flaccid little frank while you pee-shiver.

If you dress, groom, and "self-identify" as a male, and don't have a penis, use The Men's Room. Knock yourself all the fark out. You're probably gonna want to sit down though, because that "back up and hike your ass at a urinal" think is awkward, and the "wow! she can stream like a dude!" thing even more so, no matter what the damned sign on the door says. Pro-tip: don't look at a coin-op vending machine in there in an attempt at "verisimilitude". That's a tell.

If you dress, groom, and "self-identify" as a female, and don't have a penis...yeah, you don't need this explained. Take your entourage in where the couches, tanning bed, and "rate your date" bulletin board are, like you always have.

If you dress, groom, and "self-identify" as a female, and have a penis, for the sake of every deity ever uttered in prayer by humans, tell me before I pay for a hotel room. Dammit.

bikkurikun: myalias1845: bikkurikun: shared toilets are bad for men for the simple reason that women's toilets tend to by way,way dirtier. Women are pigs when it comes to public toilet manners.

Whatever troll.

That reminds me. From what I've heard, the guys at my work are starting this HUGE boogar collection at one of the urinals. Apparently it's getting out of control with people writing quotes by them and creating comics. I need to sneak in their one of these days.

No troll. I had worked for a cleaning company in college for a summer or two, it's true. I think everyone who has had a similar job can confirm this.

Confirmed.

Id shiat outside before i shared a restroom with a women. Most are freaking pigs.

I worked in a cubicle hell company as a porter. Man, i actually found poop on toilet seats....in the womens bathroom. Not to mentioned used pads laying around. Even though their are disposal bags for that in each stall.

Worst thing i found in the mens room? Honestly nothing.

They are even pigs in the break room. Been multiple times i was changing a trash bag and in the process a few people just through trash in the bin..without a bag in it..as im standing next to it tieing up the full bag.

I got sick of it and called one lady out on it. 5 seconds later i had 4 other women around me calling me a racist honky.

God i hated that place, at times i wish i would have jacked off into the creamer.

myalias1845: That reminds me. From what I've heard, the guys at my work are starting this HUGE boogar collection at one of the urinals. Apparently it's getting out of control with people writing quotes by them and creating comics. I need to sneak in their one of these days.

threadjack

www.youtube.com/watch?v=znHA1rYxmN4

/threadjack

Unless they build a stall around the urinal it's still highly frowned upon for me or any other woman to go in there, yet this leaves a lot of room for men to venture into the ladies room. So i'm feeling pretty oppressed here with this bathroom intrusion.

DoctorCal: myalias1845: That reminds me. From what I've heard, the guys at my work are starting this HUGE boogar collection at one of the urinals. Apparently it's getting out of control with people writing quotes by them and creating comics. I need to sneak in their one of these days.

threadjack

www.youtube.com/watch?v=znHA1rYxmN4

/threadjack

lol wut.

/I thought my story applied...

DoctorCal:
Lemme break it down for you....

I laughed before having any coffee - nice.

Now Philbb, At 11 or 12 your mom dressed you as a girl for halloween and sent you to school? Was that your idea? You must have been the most self-aware, self-confident kid at that awkward age to pull that off.

So, let's make 99.9% of the population uncomfortable/confused to make some freaks feel better? That's more than PC, that's stupid. Here's the solution: don't leave the house if you're too farked up to figure out what bathroom to use in public.

cornbread and the collard greens: Id shiat outside before i shared a restroom with a women. Most are freaking pigs.

I worked in a cubicle hell company as a porter. Man, i actually found poop on toilet seats....in the womens bathroom. Not to mentioned used pads laying around. Even though their are disposal bags for that in each stall.

Worst thing i found in the mens room? Honestly nothing.

They are even pigs in the break room. Been multiple times i was changing a trash bag and in the process a few people just through trash in the bin..without a bag in it..as im standing next to it tieing up the full bag.

I got sick of it and called one lady out on it. 5 seconds later i had 4 other women around me calling me a racist honky.

God i hated that place, at times i wish i would have jacked off into the creamer.

I too worked at a few places cleaning. Honestly, only high paid men are as piggish as almost seemingly all women - as described, pads dont make it anywhere except the floor and the worset i've seen is piss all over the floor in the mens room.

myalias1845: lol wut.

/I thought my story applied...

Just thought, you know, Tar Pits.

Oh, this is nonsense.

You just need 5 bogs - men, women, ladyboys, dykes and puffs.

stitchintime: Now Philbb, At 11 or 12 your mom dressed you as a girl for halloween and sent you to school? Was that your idea? You must have been the most self-aware, self-confident kid at that awkward age to pull that off.

Obligatory as the Hendrix perm

DoctorCal: myalias1845: lol wut.

/I thought my story applied...

Just thought, you know, Tar Pits.

Gotcha. I cross that intersection all the time and, I must say, would never have guessed it would have impressed anyone so much as to make such a random video of it.

You just need 5 bogs - men, women, ladyboys, dykes and puffs

Don't forget different ones for pre-op and post-op transsexuals as well as a separation between women>men transgenders and man>women transgenders. Also one for the natural hermaphrodites and one for transvestites.

There's a restaurant in Amsterdam named "Suppeclub". Go if you can; there's one in San Francisco but it's a shadow of the original.

There the restrooms are labeled "Hetero" and "Homo". Bothe are outfitted identically with stalls and urinals. However the wall separating the rooms are where the urinals are mounted and over them is a partially silvered mirror - you can clearly see the face and torso of the person on the other side looking at you.

The affect is comical as people go downstairs. They're perplexed but also need to "go". The lloks on their face afterwards is priceless.

The way it makes you think about society is a lesson worth the trip.