Students spending waaaaaaay too much time on causes...

[LordShaithis]

Probably a transsexual or something. It said they couldn't decide on one, after all.

[Frank Hipper]

I seriously doubt those stories were literally true. I can't imagine some girl enduring pain because she's offended by the little skirt-wearing pictogram on the womens' bathroom. It's far more likely that it was filthy and she didn't want to use it for that reason, but it sounded more politically activist to make up some bullshit motivation.

You have a way of saying what I want to say so much better than I could ever say it.
I hate you.
I didn't believe that for an instant, either. But the fact that person felt the need to use those examples (you're being more generous than I would be, I think it's fabrication), should open him up to all the criticism he gets.

[Wicked Pilot]

How about we adopt a new male/female symbol set featuring a stick figure with breast for the females, and a stick figure with a penis for the males.

[SirNitram]

While I have nothing against unisex toilets... I do not find anything about the first two claims to make me sure they're fake. Anyone who says 'they can't be that stupid' still has a bit too much faith in humanity, and regular reading of things posted here will burn that away.

[salm]

In Europe, a lot of places have co-ed bathrooms. What's the big deal and why is it so manifestly stupid to do it? Separate male and female bathrooms are a holdover of Christian puritanism, remember? The Romans didn't bother with that shit.

really? where? i´ve not seen much of them. not in germany, not in france, not in england, not in austria, not in bulgaria, not in switzerland not even in italy, not in slovenia and not in croatia and not in jugoslavia either.

<edit>oh yeah, i forgot romania, they don´t have unisex toiletts there either</quote>

[Melkor]

Everyone quoted in that article has to be euthanized and removed from the gene pool. ASAP. And I thought working retail was the most destructive force acting on my faith in humanity.

[jegs2]

“Going to the bathroom is a moment where definition is very important in choosing a door,” said Mary Anne Case, one of the panelists.

She pointed out that many women’s restrooms have a caricature of a person in a dress on it. “Going into it implies that we are willing to be associated with that image. There are only two [images] to choose from. This moment involves an act of self-labeling.”

The song, Too Much Time on My Hands from Styx comes to mind. Fortunately, most grow out of that phase, while the remainder become liberals...

[aerius]

Everyone quoted in that article has to be euthanized and removed from the gene pool. ASAP. And I thought working retail was the most destructive force acting on my faith in humanity.

You think retail is bad? Wait'll you work in Customs. A year of working in Customs degraded my opinion of humanity more than the 4 years of retail I've worked. Let's put it this way, if you try to ship things in pillowcases, it's not getting through, and that was the least of our worries.

[Gandalf]

Perhaps the bladder infection caused indirectly by the person's stupidity is sort of a very clever natural selection thing happening.

[Perinquus]

Everyone quoted in that article has to be euthanized and removed from the gene pool. ASAP. And I thought working retail was the most destructive force acting on my faith in humanity.

You think retail is bad? Wait'll you work in Customs. A year of working in Customs degraded my opinion of humanity more than the 4 years of retail I've worked. Let's put it this way, if you try to ship things in pillowcases, it's not getting through, and that was the least of our worries.

Hah, I've got you both beat. You should try police work if you want to have every last shred of your faith in humanity destroyed. If people aren't acting like shitbags, they're acting like dumbasses.

[Uraniun235]

Any woman who pushed for unisex bathrooms would change her mind if she had to tolerate the men's room on 5th floor Wilson.

So far...

- In the first week of college, someone placed a cardboard box in one of the stalls. For some godawful reason, several people took to pissing in the box, soaking it with urine to the point where the janitor refused to touch it.

- People continually miss the toilet. And fail to flush it. Leaving the men's room smelling of urine.

- One of the toilets was clogged and then apparently shit in by multiple people, resulting in a toilet full of nothing but shit and some toilet paper. This was not fixed for about a week.

- One of the toilets was getting clogged quite often, often with toilet paper (the sad thing is, that was one the floor had designated as a 'urinal' as we have no urinals in the men's room, so there really should never have been any TP in there)... one time when it was looking normal and not clogged I flushed only to have the water churn and bubble up rather ominously. Fortunately it stopped just short of the rim.

This same toilet was later removed (and is still MIA) as it was later discovered someone had tried to flush a piece of metal down it...

- I have looked into a shower stall only to see mass of hair that was in a small pile. I don't want to know where it came from, because I suspect someone shaved their crotch.

- On the same note, the shower drains will often get bogged down in hair that we men keep shedding. Hence every one in a while when you take a step in the shower stall you hear a 'splish! splish!'

- There is no soap and there are no paper towels, nor a hand dryer. These would cost extra and would have to come out of our own pockets. (although, I think the same goes for our women's room as well...)

- We do get a dispenser of 'hand sanitizer', however the dispenser has mysteriously disappeared, leaving only the little packet that would normally go in the dispenser. I have no idea how to get the sanitizer out of the little sealed bag.

- Every once in awhile, someone has explosive shits and leaves droplets of shit on the toilet seat. Not fun.

I seriously can't believe women would actually want to share a bathroom with men.

[salm]

according to a friend who works in the sanitary business (he cleans toiletts in bars and discos) the women´s toiletts are usually a lot more disgusting than the men´s.
that´s because the men only pee next to the urinals. the women on the other hand apparantly sit on the toilette rims with the feet on the rims so they don´t have to touch any part of the toilette with their ass and let it flow. be it piss or be it shit, they don´t care. since women are even worse in aiming than men and tend to sit in bars and drink coffee latte all day long, the excrements tend to squirt all over the place with the most barbaric odour you´ve smelled in your whole life.

[Gandalf]

Well it clearly seems no-one can use a toilet, so it's more a question of how you want to be disgusted.

[CelesKnight]

But I fail to see the point in marking single-person bathrooms as "male" or "female". Just have two unisex bathrooms and be done with it.

My company actually did that--they turned all our single-person bathrooms into unisex ones. It worked out quite well.

They also put tables and chairs into them (for diabetics??). If we ever get a wireless lan you could turn one into your own private office.