I hate public bathrooms anyway, but when it comes to the genders, generally women's washrooms are sooo much cleaner than the men's... or at least, women's bodily secretions and odours are not as strong and stenching as men's.

Sometimes the women's washrooms are terribly unimmaculate, but those are few and far between. When I need to go and there's no one in the men's, I will use it, but most of the time, perhaps 98% of the time, I will use the women's.

Way safer!

Quote from: FTMDiaries on May 28, 2013, 09:08:10 AM
But would you like the ultimate in toilet grossness?

Try going to Africa (and other parts of the Third World), where in some very rural locations they have drop-pit toilets. These are basically just a big hole in the ground, with a wooden shack constructed over them. The shack has a bench in it with a hole cut in the middle: you do your business on that seat and it just drops into the pit below. No water. No flushing. Just metres and metres of other people's previous business from the past month or two, festering together in a great big hole under the hot African sun. The smell (and the flies!) will shock anyone who's never left the First World. And because there's no running water, you can't wash your hands afterwards either.

Trust me. Gender is the last thing that comes to mind when you're sitting in a drop-pit toilet.

In the Philippines, going to the toilet generally requires one's hands and a small bucket (called a 'tabo'), so when you go into the toilets, especially when it comes to defecating, you will have to use one hand to pour water down your rear, and the other one to help clean the area... XD

I think as First Worlders, we often forget about the good that we have over here, in terms of comfort, convenience, and money. There are so many people dealing with more issues than one, and if I were to be in Africa, my very first thing that would pop up for me as a woman would be safety. As a woman, being raped or having sex against your own will is a too common occurrence there!

Just wanted to add when I used to use the female bathroom I ALWAYS hover and always covered the whole seat with two layers of toilet paper if I need to sit. I've done this since forever, I won't even use the first square of toilet paper on the roll, I always toss it because I can't stand the thought of some female with stuff on her hands possibly having touched that piece that i'm about to use, so I toss it.

However now that i've switched to the guys bathroom, sometimes it sucks, I've been in several stalls with pee on the seat, which is gross since the seat's supposed to be up anyways, but over-all I've found the men's bathroom not only smells better but it more clean. However you see a lot more guys not washing their hands after doing their business than girls, which just grosses me out...

You know when ever I've been in the women's room for what ever reason it was at the time, it was always really clean and smelled nice.

I lived in very rural north Idaho for a bit, and used an outhouse. I also had friends who had outhouses. "Running water" was when we tipped the water jug to the side. Toilets were common if one had an actual house, but there are a lot of people who live waaaayy back in the woods who don't have modern conveniences...like toilets, telephone, electricity. A common dwelling among the mountain-folk was a 30 year-old camper trailer with a one-room cabin attached.

I'm not sure if they chose that lifestyle, or if it is extreme poverty. (For us, we initially chose it, but once the romance of "roughing it" wore off...well, "north Idaho" is synonymous with "extreme poverty", and we were trapped there for a couple years).

Over here it's a mix of which is worse. I used one bathroom yesterday and as I sat down I saw what appeared to be blood on the wall, and my instant thought was "Weird.. this isn't the ladies room.."

Overall the smell is worse in the men's room, thanks to those of little aim combined with poor choice in materials (so they don't clean as easily).