Old Idahoan coot thinks schools need separate gay bathrooms

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex

The obvious answer is that restrooms should not be gender separated either.

Wrong. Compare the two lines.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Yes, men who like the convenience of exposing themselves in front of each other hate me.

At least we're quiet about it. Who wants to p*** while a bunch of broads clack over the neighboring stall about their boyfriends?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

At least we're quiet about it. Who wants to p*** while a bunch of broads clack over the neighboring stall about their boyfriends?

Good lord! They talk while in the bathroom? That's, that's, that's just wrong.


Although it could, in part, help explain the time differential between men and women.

[Crazybirdman]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

My plan would be to rid the world of urinals and make all bathrooms coed. Seriously. Yes, men who like the convenience of exposing themselves in front of each other hate me. I think urinals are ridiculous...but it's not like I have a man's perspective on them.

A lot of the restrooms we saw in Italy were like that. Everything seemed to work out okay. I wasn't molested or anything. Although it meant my wife never had to stop talking to me when we went to the restrooms.

[Alex]

If the goal is to prevent people from peeing next to people they might find sexually attractive then 3, 4, and 5 don't solve anything.

If this really was a concern then the real serious solution would be to re-engineer the restrooms so that they consist of single seat, entirely contained closets with a common washroom area. Essentially, take the row of port-a-potties at a street fair with a single sink out front and build it permanently indoors.

The gender separated restrooms thing is so oddly ingrained though. I'm always kind of confused by many gas station restrooms that consist of two identical single toilet rooms (no urinal in either) and yet one is for women only and one is for men only.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

If the goal is to prevent people from peeing next to people they might find sexually attractive then 3, 4, and 5 don't solve anything.

If this really was a concern then the real serious solution would be to re-engineer the restrooms so that they consist of single seat, entirely contained closets with a common washroom area. Essentially, take the row of port-a-potties at a street fair with a single sink out front and build it permanently indoors.

The gender separated restrooms thing is so oddly ingrained though. I'm always kind of confused by many gas station restrooms that consist of two identical single toilet rooms (no urinal in either) and yet one is for women only and one is for men only.

This has the makings of a great logic puzzle.

So a gay male can only pee next to a woman. While a Hetro male can only pee next to another male. A Lesbian can only pee next to a male who is not a member of the hetro group and if you add in bisexuals then things get really out of hand.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So a gay male can only pee next to a woman. While a Hetro male can only pee next to another male. A Lesbian can only pee next to a male who is not a member of the hetro group and if you add in bisexuals then things get really out of hand.

No, it's even more complicated than that. A gay male cannot pee next to a woman either - because she might be attracted to him. I think the answer to the logic puzzle would be: heterosexual male, heterosexual female, and single-stall rooms for everyone else. (Not that I think that should be THE answer. I think the answer is that it's fine as-is.)

And no, SL, not all women gab in the bathroom. I hate that.

[Strangler Lewis]

The only true solution is universal dialysis.

[Alex]

Yeah, talking is the main reason I would ultimately advocate entirely enclosed single seat rooms rather than simply asexual restrooms.

[Strangler Lewis]

While women clacking pitifully about their boyfriends have tainted almost every downtown solitary lunch I ever had, I feel I must give equal time to another pet peeve.

Drumroll.

Loud older naked men in the gym locker room and, worse, the sauna. The older they are, the louder they are and the longer they stay naked. I sympathize to an extent. It's probably something primal, and I'm probably doomed to go down that road. But, for now, shut the f*ck up, get dressed and go home.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Ohh, and you'd sit on a lot of wet seats in a co-ed bathroom. (men are pigs)

From what I hear, men do not have an exclusive on this. I guess in an effort to not come in contact with said toilet, women will kind of squat over the toilet. I understand that indoor plumbing on some comes equipped with a wide angle sprayer permanently attached (I've heard this from more than one source).

Originally Posted by Alex

Even with modern low flow toilets it doesn't make sense to use 1.6 gallons of water to dispose of a couple cups of pee.

In our household, we follow this axiom:

If it's yellow leave it mellow
If it's brown flush it down