[2 May 12] Tickle each others' brain-stems

[mindstalk]

Caltech barely has sex-segregated anything, except that a male and female can't be forced into a double or triple together against their will by the roompick process. They can choose one though, which has been done by non-dating pairs as well as couples. And these are just one room, no suite arrangement. Only one set of bathrooms per hallway, so those are shared, and you just don't care who's pooping in the other stall. Or showering in the other stall.

The girls care far more about the 3:1 male:female ratio and the social problems that causes than about the bathrooms.

Totally OT: anyone else read Candi Comics? I discovered it recently. Cute. But I wonder why it hasn't made a cast page in 6+ years...

[Valerie]

What's weird to me is when there's a single-person bathroom that's labelled either for men or for women. Only one person can fit in there at a time, so why would that ever matter? That's how our bathrooms are at work. I frequently find myself telling customers that they can use the opposite sex's bathroom when theirs is preoccupied.

I understand why some people would be apprehensive about a multi-person bathroom being unisex, but the idea doesn't really bother me at all. Hell, most people are used to sharing a bathroom with the opposite sex just because of growing up with family. The difference is just that home bathrooms are generally single-person, but, even then, who here hasn't had to use the toilet when a family member is in the shower? (It's different because it's family, I know.)

I dunno, the idea of being weirded out by unisex bathrooms just doesn't really occur to me. As a woman, I've seen plenty of other women bring their male children into the ladies' room. And you know who's weirded out? Not the kid. He doesn't care. He just needs to go potty.

dshajdhasjdaj Point is, I know why some people are bothered by the idea, but unisex bathrooms are generally something I support.

(I read Candi. It is very cute.)

[retrophrenologist]

It's too soon to judge Ron based on this single appearance, so I'm gonna hate Lisa by proxy.

Always a safe choice.

[Otaking]

Ameyal wrote:It's too soon to judge Ron based on this single appearance, so I'm gonna hate Lisa by proxy.


Always a safe choice.

Well I'm going to love her in person then!

(Fires up the Honda generator and sparks a couple of wires together before laying them on the printout of Lisa* The wires are routed through an old IBM 486 running some fucked up Perl script and a combo VHS recorder/CRT playing a copy of Weird Science. The theme song is blaring and my wife's bra is on my head.)


(Waits.)



*Quiltbag Lisa not Kelly LeBrock Lisa

[Lia S]

What's weird to me is when there's a single-person bathroom that's labelled either for men or for women. Only one person can fit in there at a time, so why would that ever matter?

Because of cooties!

But seriously, I hear that both genders are afraid the other will pee over the seats (men because they're too lazy to put them up but insist on standing, and women because they're so afraid to touch the dirty seat they won't touch it with their rears and CERTAINLY not with their hands). As far as I can tell male and female bathrooms are about equally dirty/clean everywhere, though.

Well I'm going to love her in person then!

(Fires up the Honda generator and sparks a couple of wires together before laying them on the printout of Lisa* The wires are routed through an old IBM 486 running some fucked up Perl script and a combo VHS recorder/CRT playing a copy of Weird Science. The theme song is blaring and my wife's bra is on my head.)


(Waits.)



*Quiltbag Lisa not Kelly LeBrock Lisa

<3

[Artemisia]

Honestly, after living with my aunt, cousin and cousin's boyfriend there's very little in the way of what's in a public restroom that could scare me.

[Freemage]

What's weird to me is when there's a single-person bathroom that's labelled either for men or for women. Only one person can fit in there at a time, so why would that ever matter? That's how our bathrooms are at work. I frequently find myself telling customers that they can use the opposite sex's bathroom when theirs is preoccupied.

I think there, the idea is that you're trying to make certain that one bathroom is always open to half your customers.

I understand why some people would be apprehensive about a multi-person bathroom being unisex, but the idea doesn't really bother me at all. Hell, most people are used to sharing a bathroom with the opposite sex just because of growing up with family. The difference is just that home bathrooms are generally single-person, but, even then, who here hasn't had to use the toilet when a family member is in the shower? (It's different because it's family, I know.)

Heh. I HATE using the toilet when my wife's in the shower or bath, actually. Especially (sorry to get a bit gross, here) bowel movements. I'm a big guy, which means that such is often accompanied by a fair bit of gas--it's rather disconcerting to have someone present for that.

I dunno, the idea of being weirded out by unisex bathrooms just doesn't really occur to me. As a woman, I've seen plenty of other women bring their male children into the ladies' room. And you know who's weirded out? Not the kid. He doesn't care. He just needs to go potty.

dshajdhasjdaj Point is, I know why some people are bothered by the idea, but unisex bathrooms are generally something I support.

(I read Candi. It is very cute.)

I don't object to a young child being brought into a bathroom--that's the parent's call, really, as to whether or not the child is old enough (and the locale safe enough) for them go into a bathroom on their own.

Candi is adorable--mindstalk, you are aware that Starline did guest-art for a two-part storyline of P&A, right?

[Louisa]

What's weird to me is when there's a single-person bathroom that's labelled either for men or for women. Only one person can fit in there at a time, so why would that ever matter? That's how our bathrooms are at work. I frequently find myself telling customers that they can use the opposite sex's bathroom when theirs is preoccupied.

We used to have a couple of single-person bathrooms labelled "men" and "women" at my college. They were right outside the college bar, so I don't know how much attention drunk people paid to the labelling, but I still thought that gender-segregating single-person bathrooms was pointless, not to mention potentially problematic for people who don't easily fit into binary-gendered boxes. So when I was college LGBT rep, I had a chat with college staff and persuaded them to change things. The bathrooms outside the bar are now unisex