Get with the times, Bob-O. The ladies’ room has those too. 
It could be that there is a legal requirement in your jurisdiction mandating gender-segregated washroom facilities whenever there are two or more washrooms. (Of course, this just raises the further question of the purpose of the law.)
What I don’t get is my old office. Four bathrooms, all of which are single-occupancy. There’s a men’s, a woman’s, and two gender neutral. Maybe it’s because the gender neutral ones are handicap-accessible.
All I can say is that of the employees restrooms at the restaurant I work at, the womens is cleaner. On an average day, there are more female workers than male, and the restrooms are cleaned by the 3rd shift dish washer, but not every day (but he does clean both at the same time).
I am not sure of the public restrooms there.
Don’t forget about the couches, potpourri, and other luxuries often found in women’s bathrooms.
No…keep the status quo. I, as a man, like having ready access to a bathroom unlike what women have to put up with.
I just remembered that when I worked at a fast food place in high school, we had single occupancy restrooms. In the time I worked there, the men’s room was the only one where we found someone had pooped in the sink and left it there. 
However, to be fair, we don’t know if a man or woman left that gift for us.
Was it an older building in a region that once had separate “colored” and “white” facilities? That would explain the four restrooms. There’s a post somewhere around here in which a Doper describes walking past a women’s rest room and entering what he *assumed *to be the men’s room, only to realize that it was also a women’s rest room. There were also two side-by-side men’s rooms.
There’s a bar here in town that has multiple occupancy restrooms (swinging door does not lock). One door has a sign that says “men” and the other door has a sign that says “women.”
Upon closer inspection, you see the signs on the doors are actually in the shape of hands with the index fingers pointing toward the opposite door. Many people don’t figure it out until it’s too late.
It’s an old building, but it’s in the north, and there has been a lot of renovation. And they’re not side by side like that. I can only guess that one of the unisex ones is made for patients, as it’s roomy and handicap accessible, and we get a lot of people in wheelchairs there. The other one is roomy and luxurious, and seems like an employees only thing.
Cooties. It’s all about cooties.
Psychological is just another way of saying cooties.
Bahhhh…
Don’t buy the hype. Do you know how rough those ribbed things are on your hands?
Cite that most women hover instead of sitting on the seat? IME, *most *women sit normally; however, you only need *one *hovering retard to make a royal mess of the place.
I attended a blues festival in Cincinnati once upon a time and noted that the line for the ladies room was much longer than the line for the men’s room. Now the men’s room had the old trough type urinals which were lined shoulder to shoulder by urinating men while the stalls were mostly unused. I happened to be standing at the trough when the door opened and a woman called out, “Close your eyes, guys; we’re coming in.” And in they came, and into the stalls they went and when they left, another woman would enter and take the vacated stall. No one protested and all in all, it seemed to me to be a logical solution. Although I doubt I could have stuck my head into a women’s room and said, “Close your eyes, ladies, I’m coming in.”
Good point. But in a public restroom, it’s impossible to know whether the joint was clean before that lone hovering retard let loose, or whether every previous user was a hoverer.
If one’s only option is to use a toilet defaced by a hoverer, the next horror on the menu is to either somehow clean/disinfect the disgusting seat or, God help us all, become a hoverer too.
Sad story either way.
I’ve been in some sports and music venues that had concourses with many consecutive facilities for each gender. You would emerge from the seating area looking for a restroom and if you started walking the wrong way you might have to go a quarter or even halfway around the whole arena before coming to an appropriately-designated one. Who the :mad: thought that was a good idea?
Also, in malls, restaurants, etc - women are more likely to have small children with them who, while potty trained, still need supervision in the restroom. Said small children, if male, are more likely than adult men to sprinkle all over, not having as much hose control. This is of course the parent’s job to clean up - but, especially if she has more than one child to supervise, it’s easy to miss/forget to do.
Moral of the story: Never use the handicapped stall at the mall - it’s the first choice of parents with small children.
Just remembered another one…
There’s a restaurant/bar here in town and the area where you wash hands in the sink is actually a tinted window into the other bathroom instead of mirrors. Yes, guys and gals get to watch each other at the sink. You can’t see the rest of the bathroom from the sink area.
It’s pretty freaky when you see your reflection thinking it’s an odd mirror and then someone on the other side suddenly appears.
Maybe it’s something to do with the design of the toilets?
I don’t know, but I don’t think many women in the UK, at least, hover above the seat unless it’s already covered in poo. I know this via many conversations with friends and utter strangers in adjoining cubicles. I will always know if the toilet is too dirty to dirty to sit on, or if there’s no loo roll, because it will be loudly announced.
FWIW I’ve worked at many pubs in the UK where I had to clean up both the ladies’ and the gents’ and the actual toilets (as opposed to urinals) were equally bad.
Speaking as a woman who has peed in the U.S., Japan, Ireland (Republic of), Northern Ireland, and Scotland, it has nothing to do with the toilet designs. It’s purely cultural.