News and Events => Education news => Topic started by: Butterfly on April 03, 2009, 02:42:04 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Post by: Butterfly on April 03, 2009, 02:42:04 PM
Post by: Butterfly on April 03, 2009, 02:42:04 PM
Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Whitman College Pioneer
By Chelsea Bissell
April 2, 2009
http://whitmanpioneer.com/feature/2009/04/02/gender-neutral-bathrooms/ (http://whitmanpioneer.com/feature/2009/04/02/gender-neutral-bathrooms/)
When the sexy men and women of "Ally McBeal" shared one bathroom in their progressive law firm, the mid-1990s audience was shocked. Sexually non-discriminate bathrooms were an anomaly at the time and something that only lawyers in too-short skirts with fantasies about dancing babies dealt with.
Gender-neutral bathrooms are no longer marginalized to lawyer-based dramedies and are now becoming more common in public areas. With a greater awareness of the GLBTQ community, a campaign for more genderneutral bathrooms is growing in popularity across the nation, with its strongest foothold on liberal arts campuses.
Whitman College Pioneer
By Chelsea Bissell
April 2, 2009
http://whitmanpioneer.com/feature/2009/04/02/gender-neutral-bathrooms/ (http://whitmanpioneer.com/feature/2009/04/02/gender-neutral-bathrooms/)
When the sexy men and women of "Ally McBeal" shared one bathroom in their progressive law firm, the mid-1990s audience was shocked. Sexually non-discriminate bathrooms were an anomaly at the time and something that only lawyers in too-short skirts with fantasies about dancing babies dealt with.
Gender-neutral bathrooms are no longer marginalized to lawyer-based dramedies and are now becoming more common in public areas. With a greater awareness of the GLBTQ community, a campaign for more genderneutral bathrooms is growing in popularity across the nation, with its strongest foothold on liberal arts campuses.
Title: Re: Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Post by: JENNIFER on April 03, 2009, 02:57:12 PM
Post by: JENNIFER on April 03, 2009, 02:57:12 PM
It would be a nice world if such a place as a gender-neutral bathroom was commonplace but it is unlikely as long as men act as men and women act accordingly. A most unlikely event though, now that I live as a woman, I would be very uncomfortable if a man was in the next cubicle to me or weeing into a urinal with his willy exposed as I exit my booth after doing my stuff.
As a matter of record, I must qualify my comments by saying that I use unisex facilities due to my disabilities and there have been no problems owing to the fact that it is a one person facility.
As a matter of record, I must qualify my comments by saying that I use unisex facilities due to my disabilities and there have been no problems owing to the fact that it is a one person facility.
Title: Re: Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Post by: Nicky on April 06, 2009, 08:36:49 PM
Post by: Nicky on April 06, 2009, 08:36:49 PM
Do you find penises offensive?
Pee is just pee and the other is the other. I don't think men and women differ there. I think segregated bathrooms are old fashioned.
Pee is just pee and the other is the other. I don't think men and women differ there. I think segregated bathrooms are old fashioned.
Title: Re: Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 06, 2009, 09:11:15 PM
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 06, 2009, 09:11:15 PM
Maybe I am a little old fashion, but I also would not wish to come out of a stall and see a man standing there doing his thing. :icon_blush: and I have nothing against penises, just not on me. :o
There are gender neutral Bathrooms in Portland. Some are commonly shared ones ( Gay bars mostly ) and some are private stalls. I have no problems using the women's restrooms where ever I go.
Janet
There are gender neutral Bathrooms in Portland. Some are commonly shared ones ( Gay bars mostly ) and some are private stalls. I have no problems using the women's restrooms where ever I go.
Janet
Title: Re: Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Post by: tekla on April 06, 2009, 09:18:45 PM
Post by: tekla on April 06, 2009, 09:18:45 PM
We often have a co-ed bathroom situation at work. There are separate boy/girl rooms, but they are almost half a block away and a huge set of stairs, so mostly we don't use them.
Title: Re: Gender-neutral bathrooms?
Post by: placeholdername on April 06, 2009, 09:33:15 PM
Post by: placeholdername on April 06, 2009, 09:33:15 PM
My dad's office has gender neutral bathrooms (with all of two toilets).