• @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    626 months ago

    This is going to shock some people, but EVERYONE can use EVERY restroom and toilet right now. The only thing holding us back is outmoded social expectations.

    • @i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      266 months ago

      I’m AFAB and no one has ever said anything when I went to the men’s room. Got a lot of weird looks. The men’s room is so quiet, save for the unabashed shitting going on in there. The ladies tend to wait until they’re alone before they drop a deuce.

      • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        156 months ago

        I’m AMAB, non-binary but decidedly male presenting, and I’ve received some comments but no direct confrontation for using individual restrooms labeled as “women’s” at public parks. If there’s a single occupancy men’s room and an equally private, single occupancy room with an arbitrary “women’s” designation, I’m going to use either.

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        36 months ago

        It’s worse in Japan. They had to install white noise generators because the women were wasting water by leaving faucets running while they did their business.

      • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        26 months ago

        The ladies tend to wait until they’re alone before they drop a deuce.

        They what? (What country is this?)

        That sounds like you’ll never be able to go 😅

        To be fair, I’ve not been in the ladies toilets (Australia), so can’t really comment on the state of things there.

        I will say one thing, the number of times I have to wipe down a seat with piss on it on the men’s toilets is ridiculous. Fucking a lot dirty bastards out there, who honestly, I think have a screw loose.

        I get the line is long for the ladies sometimes, but you’re brave to venture to the men’s based solely on how dirty it often is.

        • @Cypher@lemmy.world
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          16 months ago

          I’m Australian and I’ve cleaned toilets at a public venue before and in office buildings.

          However bad the mens are I assure you the women’s toilets are worse.

    • @frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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      96 months ago

      I think there’s some people that will continue to have problems with using urinals. Maybe not, but probably…

      • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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        166 months ago

        Yeah… like me. And they were built with my anatomy in mind.

        Urinals will never be real toilets to me because they don’t accommodate all forms of relieving one’s self.

        I’m also not crazy about squat toilets, but that’s more of a personal preference.

        (PS, I’ve seen people with vaginas use a urinal. It’s a neat trick, but it highlights how needlessly exclusive they are.)

        • @frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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          56 months ago

          (PS, I’ve seen people with vaginas use a urinal. It’s a neat trick, but it highlights how needlessly exclusive they are.)

          I remember watching some kind of healthy sex show on HBO probably 20 - 25 years ago, and there was a segment about how the Germans had created this folding cardboard urinal tool for vaginas to easily pee at the urinal. I thought it was pretty rad back then, but I haven’t kept up with if that thing still exists - due to a lack of personal need. I hope it does still exist. It needs more marketing. I’ve never seen a used cardboard personal piss-trough abandoned at any music festivals though so I think I’d likely be disappointed to hear the truth of the reality surrounding this.

          • oppy1984
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            96 months ago

            There’s a product called the shewee, same thing but it’s plastic or silicone and reusable. My ex wanted one since she always had to pee and it made lots of road trips uncomfortable for her, she also had knee issues so squatting was difficult. She was so excited to try it out she peed with the toilet seat up that night.

    • Carl
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      6 months ago

      Single person washrooms in Canada, are gender neutral. Even if you have a sign for a specified gender. And I don’t think anyone cares which one you use, as long as your not entering it for a sexual/perverted reason.

      Also, this is an onion post.

  • @But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    These conservatives who want trans people to use their birth assigned bathrooms, do they not realize there are muscular, bearded, manly trans men who are into women? How is that different than a big manly muscular dude who isn’t trans??

    First big burly trans man who walks into the women’s room and they’re gonna freak out

    • @scoobford@lemmy.zip
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      106 months ago

      I think it depends on the person. Some people treat it as a grift (I don’t believe trump actually gives a shit about trans people), others are suppressing something within themselves (whatever the hell Andrew Tate is doing), and some probably legitimately think the way other people live their lives is “incorrect”, like religious people.

      All of them have to be prevented from causing harm, but hating any of them is largely a waste of energy.

  • @oyzmo@lemmy.world
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    126 months ago

    Just replace the person symbol on the door with the letters WC - problem solved 🤓

  • @PunkRockSportsFan
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    76 months ago

    Religious perverts have screwed up everyone.

    Now there’s people who are gay who hate themselves so they hate anyone who’s gay and not ashamed.

    I imagine it’s the same about trans folks who have been groomed into a religion. They know they are in the wrong body but are conditioned to feel shame for how they were made.

  • @altphoto@lemmy.today
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    56 months ago

    I remember having to use the girls restroom on a grayhound bus:

    I think its the same as the kids restroom, the old people’s restroom, and the gay, lesbian, trans, queer, bisexual, Asexual and the restroom for fat big butt people from Kentucky. Its a weird feeling because when you’re in there doing your business there’s no one there with you. I though there would be at least someone asking me if I had a vagina or testicles. But no.