Public Restrooms and Gender

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Zopperoni

OK, that was kind of difficult to explain, so I'll illustrate. Suppose we have one regular men's room with three urinals and two stalls. We also have a ladies room with two stalls.
We know that any woman that enters the ladies room will be entering a stall. A man, however, can (or has to) choose between a stall and a urinal.

Now what happens if we do a mixed gender restroom? Let's say we have six urinals and four stalls. How do you predict how many people the restroom can serve? More women can use the lavatory simultaneously, but it comes at the expense of a man who needs to pay his sewer tax.

The point is that it's more difficult to manage the capacity. In a controlled environment where the men's room and the ladies room are separated is much easier to oversee.

Working women pay sewer taxes to!!!!!!!!!

[The Mad Monk]

Re: Re: Public Restrooms and Gender

Originally posted by Agathon


Get a job where you have to clean both sets of washrooms. Then you will understand.

When was the last time a female washroom had the floor covered in urine?

You're kidding, right?

A lot of women do not sit down when using a public restroom, because a lot of women do not sit down when using a public restroom.

With predictable consequeces to both toilet seat and floor.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
In France there are many mixed bathrooms in public places.

France

In most gay bars, there are mens and womens bathrooms, but both are used freely by both genders.

In many ways, France is like a gay bar.

[Asher]

Re: Re: Public Restrooms and Gender

Originally posted by Agathon
Get a job where you have to clean both sets of washrooms. Then you will understand.

Spoken like a true Philosophy student.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Zopperoni

OK, that was kind of difficult to explain, so I'll illustrate. Suppose we have one regular men's room with three urinals and two stalls. We also have a ladies room with two stalls.
We know that any woman that enters the ladies room will be entering a stall. A man, however, can (or has to) choose between a stall and a urinal.

Now what happens if we do a mixed gender restroom? Let's say we have six urinals and four stalls. How do you predict how many people the restroom can serve?

A unified-gender restroom with the same amount of urinals as the original men's room and the same number of stalls as the sum of the men's and ladies' rooms will necessarily be adequate for the same or a larger number of clients with identical demographics as the original setup.

I don't get what you are saying here.

[MrFun]

He's saying that he's right no matter how much logic you use in refuting his vague point.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


A unified-gender restroom with the same amount of urinals as the original men's room and the same number of stalls as the sum of the men's and ladies' rooms will necessarily be adequate for the same or a larger number of clients with identical demographics as the original setup.

I don't get what you are saying here.

The peeshy rate increases.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
A unified-gender restroom with the same amount of urinals as the original men's room and the same number of stalls as the sum of the men's and ladies' rooms will necessarily be adequate for the same or a larger number of clients with identical demographics as the original setup.

I don't get what you are saying here.

When I was in Bamako, the hotel had unisex restrooms (one restroom area per floor) with urinals. Nobody used the urinals.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Spiffor

When I was in Bamako, the hotel had unisex restrooms (one restroom area per floor) with urinals. Nobody used the urinals.

Why not? I prefer using urinals to a bowl.

[Spiffor]

Because women could come in the bathroom at every moment, and any woman would see the man's side.

Also, the gates of the restroom area were wide open, and the urinals were right behind the gate, meaning that everybody passing by could see the man's side

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Because women could come in the bathroom at every moment, and any woman would see the man's side.

Also, the gates of the restroom area were wide open, and the urinals were right behind the gate, meaning that everybody passing by could see the man's side

So? There's the risk of rude men peering at other men at the urinals.


I think most women, like most men, know what counts as good manners and common sense in a public restroom.

[Spiffor]

I'm just reporting a behaviour that I saw consistently. Heck, even I didn't use those urinals, even though I am a big urinal-fan in other circumstances...

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by MrFun

So? There's the risk of rude men peering at other men at the urinals.

Or worse - a gay man staring at you.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Kontiki


Or worse - a gay man staring at you.

Some of you straight dudes sure have this boogey-man fear of gay men. I assure you, most of us have the sense not to go at it with you in the restroom.

[KrazyHorse]

Horse hockey. We all know that gays are constantly on the lookout for a straight man who lets his guard down in the men's room.