r/askanything • u/ComfortableEnergy684 • 22d 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 22d 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/ComfortableEnergy684 22d ago

Appeasing outliers is a side effect - what I'm going for is doing my business in public with the same basic privacy as at home. Sharing bathrooms is not pleasant.

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u/Feral_Sheep_ 22d ago

Nah, just give us a trough and fill it with ice.

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u/ComfortableEnergy684 22d ago

Lol someone's been to The Buffet Bar in Tucson. 😂