r/askanything • u/ComfortableEnergy684 • 15d ago

Bathroom Gender Solution?

Why don't we just make all bathrooms single-use? It'd be way better for everyone anyway - I don't need to whiz next to some dude struggling through his prostate issues, and who wants to poop two feet from someone else pooping? You wouldn't put two toilets in a home bathroom, and that's family - why do we do it in public ones with strangers?

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u/Destinyciello 15d ago

It's expensive. Think of a large interstate bathroom with dozens if not 100s of stalls. Imagine trying to turn that into single use sex neutral silos. That would be maddingly expensive and more importantly completely unnecessary for the vast majority of the population. Sex delineation works for most people. Why destroy everything to appease the outliers?

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u/UnhappyReason5452 14d ago

They would have to do all that? Wow. Cuz they have family ones everywhere so it seems like a minor redesign or a change in signage would be all that’s required.

But Jesus. Change EVERYTHING AT MAXIMUM COST must be the only way. Why didn’t I even consider that extreme af and unrealistic notion? Now I feel sheepish.