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Unisex Bathrooms - now with TMI!
supersheep:
--- Quote from: tania on 06 Dec 2008, 19:14 ---i never used to really get the point of unisex bathrooms until two of my housemates, who have short hair and dress kind of guyish, told me they absolutely cannot ever use public bathrooms on account they constantly get yelled and sworn at for being in the "wrong bathroom". i think it is pretty obvious they are ladies myself, but what do i know.
now that i am aware of how horrible and rude people can be, i am pretty much all for them.
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This is pretty much why, I think.
tania:
well, presumably they'd have stalls too. i guess people can just use whatever toilets they want but they also know where to go if they specifically need a urinal.
--- Quote from: clockworkjames on 08 Dec 2008, 00:09 ---It's just making excuses for perverts, not many dudes would like a woman to watch them pee at a urinal.
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yeah i don't really think anything should be done to reduce transphobia either cos i feel sort of uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with guys, so you know, forget those weird people.
no but seriously think about it, this is the kind of thing that would probably eliminate that attitude and make people feel less uncomfortable sharing the same bathrooms in the long run. social norms are not permanent, they're only created and enforced by the societies we live in.
clockworkjames:
Next they will make a third toilet type for people who do not know what toilet to go into.
If some dude told me I was in the wrong bathroom I would unzip and say I HAVE A PENIS .'. I AN ENTITLED TO BE HERE TO PEE.
waterloosunset:
--- Quote from: clockworkjames on 08 Dec 2008, 11:57 ---Next they will make a third toilet type for people who do not know what toilet to go into.
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Now surely that would make more sense than forcing everyone else into using unisex toilets? Just have male, female, miscellaneous
Slick:
If you are trans you are having a tough time fitting in to the world around you. Your mother gave birth to you as one gender and you want to be another gender. Your family and early friends knew as something that you don't want to be. You are not what anyone expected or wanted.
Now you must either a) go to the toilet in a room you don't think you belong in where people awkwardly mistake you for being the wrong gender or b) go to a room which sets you further apart from those around you.
I really don't think there's too much to the guy-girl bathroom thing besides the fact that we've all been brought up with it. If the next generation is brought up without it being a big deal it won't be a big deal in the future.
If a third washroom sprung up I would use it to prove a point.
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