If this is true, I would be willing to bet that it is due to the fact that small children, both boys and girls, always use the women’s rest room and are truly disgusting in their toilet habits.
I’m shocked :eek:
I’ve always pined after the serenity and ambient purfumed air of a ladies restroom only now to find it a lie :smack:
Which begs the question how can they get it so wrong, there not exactly capably of aiming and all effluent is gravity driven.
Just sit, do, wipe, leave … what part am I missing here?
A large percentage of women refuse to sit on the seat, instead they “hover” over it; the lack of any directional control results in pee and poo in all directions. Then, they flush with their foot, depositing bathroom floor crud on the handles. And some are obsessed with smearing menstrual blood on any exposed surfaces.
Urinals aren’t contained in stalls (at most there are little divider panels between them). Of course to see anything other than a guys (clothed) back one would need to stand right next to him and look down. Still some women would freak out if they (or their daughters) had to glimpes a man using a urinal. Having all toilets in stalls would also be a bad idea since any man just wanted a quick pee would need wait behind women (or use the sink). And although most men’s rooms toilet stalls have doors it’s not unheard of for one not to (I graduated in '03 and several of our boy’s restrooms and our lockerroom lacked toilet stall doors :eek: ).
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I guess this doesn’t really answer your question, but in my opinion, large venues (amphitheatres, arenas, stadiums, large concert halls) should have unisex bathrooms. I always find it ridiculous to have a humongous line outside the women’s restroom whereas the men just zip in and out in a matter of minutes. If everyone had to wait 20 minutes to go to the restroom that would be an indication that more restrooms are obviously needed.
I have no cite, but there are large-scale bathrooms that consist of a massive bank of stalls. At one end of the bathroom is the “MEN” entrance and at the other end is the “WOMEN” entrance. In the middle there’s a movable wall that’s set beforehand to handle the disparity in gender load for the bathrooms depending on the nature of the function being held at the facility. Pretty cool idea. Saw in on the TV.
IMHO women’s restrooms should have twice as many toilet fixtures as men’s rooms, but a urinal should only count as half a fixture. Didn’t women’s restrooms used to have some kind of “ladies urinal” in the olden days? 
I think there was a thread about them.
Shamozzle, I think it is possible for a man to use a women’s restroom without compromising a woman’s sense of safety, but it could also go the other way. If it’s likely you and a woman will find yourselves alone in there, it would be considerate to have a friend or passerby give a heads up at the door “My buddy just had to make an emergency visit in there, don’t be surprised if you see a gentleman using the facilities.” When I’ve seen women use a men’s room, they’ve done something similar.
kidchameleon, no, I don’t buy your logic. I feel safer in the ladies room with no men there. If men used the ladies as a matter of course, the criminal element would not even look out of place.
Ah, ok, I see what happened here. To clarify, the bathroom I’m describing is a single-user, lockable bathroom. There’s no way I could find myself in there alone with a woman with regard to this discussion. I enter, lock door, use, unlock door, leave. And with bathrooms of this nature I always knock regardless of whether it’s been locked or not by a potential current user of either gender.
Many of the bathrooms at Madison Square Garden are “adjustable”, with signs that can be switched between “men” and “women”, depending on the anticipated gender breakdown of the event.
You are obviously not acquainted with candid Japanese pornography 
Nope, again. Those who know have told us that it’s mostly adult women to blame, so no hiding behind defenceless little children for you.
The stupidest part, IMO, of the Spanish General Labor Safety Law, is the one that says you need to have separate bathrooms if you have workers of both genders.
If you have a store with 10 workers, all female, you only need one bathroom.
If you have a store where the salespeople are yourself and a person of the opposite gender, you need two bathrooms.
I know a family that owns a hardware store. Three brothers; the till used to be manned by their sister. For years the inspections for labor accepted the bathroom in their mother’s apartment (over the store) as a “female bathroom”. Then they got a new inspector who said the sister couldn’t work there unless they got a second bathroom.
Reckon that explains why most stores have single-gender salespeople. It’s all about the plumbing!
In general, it’s the other way round - a queue for the ladies and men zipping in and out using the urinals. In France, the women queuing are NOT shy about using the mens stalls if they are unoccupied. And (as noted) urinals don’t offer a great deal of privacy. You just gotta keep peeing.
And if I walked out of an empty Gents to a queue of women waiting for the Ladies, I’d just comment and say that the Gents is empty - they can do as they choose (and guard the door themselves if they want to)
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When I was an undergrad, the single bathroom at the top of Walker Memorial was made bi-gender. They did this by the simple expedient of enclosing the urinals in stalls. The reason, I’m convinced, is that they hive exams for large classes in the hall in the top floor of Walker Memorial, and you need bathroom facilities for both sexes.
It’s not that way anymore, I’ve noticed, although I don’t recall how they resolved the situation. I’m sure they still have exams there, so they’ve probably built another bathroom.
Well, I am a woman, and I’ve used quite a few public bathrooms in my 40+ years of living, and I’ve very rarely found one that was particularly dirty except for messes obviously left behind by children.
Good for you. Many women have said differently.
For the most part, I am the only man in a department full of women, and there are no children. We have a unisex. I always try to keep things clean (and I always put the seat down). It’s amazing how trashed the place gets. The general mood is that if paper towels are in the same general vicinity as the trash basket, that’s good enough.
We had a bathroom that was a womens bathroom. But our clientele is overwhelmingly male. So they switched it to unisex with a lock. The bathroom was disgusting. Then it went all male.
My husband is terrified at our daughter becoming potty trained and taking her out in public.
We had a guy throwing a FIT the other day because security wouldn’t let him take his 5 year old daughter in the restroom with him. He didn’t want to leave her alone outside, but what were his options?
For the record, I’m appalled at how many people do not keep their children close at a place like a dog track. It.is.not.safe.