2w ago

Paging Logic to the white courtesy phone...

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The bathroom in my house is all genders
- Oh Hell noo ☝️. I will never visit your house. And if I ever do I will piss all over your front yard before I set foot in your house.
  
  You mean like a dog?
- “But my house doesn’t have creeps in it.”
  “You did just say you will piss all over the airport parking lot.”
- Hopefully you don't live in a red state. They'll try to take your kids for that one

Why are americans so obsessed with toilets? Do they start the potty-training too early or too late?
- The GoP needed a cultural political weapon. So they picked the weakest minority, gays and trans people. To use as a distractions, while they rob the public and destroy the country.
  
  Someone's comment that I read elsewhere pointed out to me that this is a similar tactic that was used back in the day with white only bathrooms and non-white bathrooms.
  History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.
  
  I know that the GoP politize the weird toilet obsession to use as a wedge (as they do with pretty much everything), but it feels like it has been a thing for much longer than that.
- Most people don't give a shit. Literally or figuratively.
  30% of America represents the majority. Out of that 30%, most are just going along with whatever because they're dumb and watch media that validates their fears but if the story changed tomorrow they would let it go.
  The remaining sliver of this group are the true fucking nutcases who post this kind of stuff like in OP's image because they really do believe it. Because they are dumber than shit, they don't think with language, they react to feelings and let their autopilot fill in the blanks and appear functional in society.
  They are the absolute loudest and most energetic of every segment, and as such they get seen the most and influence the most people.
  This is a broken system and we need help.
  
  I would love to go back to not giving a shit but people can't just mind their own fucking business so I keep getting into arguments about why does it matter if a trans person uses the bathroom they want to. Just leave people alone so they can shit in peace.
- At least the US doesn't charge money (in general) to the toilet. I found that to be far more disruptive.
- It's not all Americans, just one specific political party that happens to have gone completely batshit crazy.
  
  It's not even the majority of that party, it's a very vocal minority.
- American culture is so evolved and refined that it has the luxury of worrying about such nonsense.
  Just to give an example, they're not worrying about bathrooms in Burundi.
  I guarantee you if it wasn't bathrooms, these consumers would find something else stupid to get up in arms about while children starve.

I love the unisex bathrooms at the Kansas City airport!
Floor to ceiling stalls that I don't have to dance around in to open and close the doors. Large open spaces to move between stalls and the sinks.
Sure, the open stall count and lights aren't reliable and the workmanship on the sinks and soap dispensers is pretty crummy, but the layout and convenience are fantastic!
- And it’s not like there are only unisex bathrooms there. It’s easy to choose another one if you prefer.
  But why bother. They’re more private than most other public bathrooms in the US. 🤷🏻‍♀️
  I fly through KC often and the gender neutral bathrooms are right past security, so I go in there nearly every time to at least wash my hands. There used to be a tiny jolt of surprise when I saw a man in there just because I’ve been so conditioned against seeing that for over 30 years, but that’s gone away because why tf do I care who sees me wash my hands?!
- I hadn't considered how much space you can save, how much better you can plan for traffic, by not having 2 separate areas.
  
  Not to mention balancing the demand, more toilets instead of urinals, and more privacy.
  Not to mention that they are inclusive just by their design.

Wait till she hears how the bathrooms in her house works...
- She pisses and shits outside in the driveway.
  Her neighbours aren't happy.
  
  Wait til she hears how outside works...
  
  Just the one with the scat fetish is having the time of his life
- She's okay with her bathroom being for men and women. What she really means is she doesn't want trans people to use the same bathroom, and she would not invite trans people into her home. But don't worry, no trans people want to be in her home, either.
  
  Glad we're starting to be explicit about what's going on.
  No emotion. No hysteria. Just cold hard facts.

"I'd rather publicly expose myself in the public parking lot than allow people to mind their own business. It's those evil wokists that are the real problem and exposing their genitals to kids".

there is an all gender bathroom at a business near me that has a picture of a male, female, and disabled person in a wheelchar on it.
i giggle every time i pass by it because i am handicapped gender.
- ah yes, the 3 genders. Rectangle, triangle, and wheelchair
  
  edit: a long pipe is also a gender I guess
  
  It's executing the woman and piping her standard output into the standard input of the man with a wheelchair..
  
  people forget about long pipe gender, it's tragic tbh
  
  my handicap has me use a cane to get around (i dont use wheels anymore), so the pipe gender speaks to me.
  
  That can't be a wheelchair, the wheel doesn't form a full circle. It's either a wheelchair with an extremely bumpy ride, or a person with a badly misshapen leg.
  
  Finally a restroom for string beans!
  
  ah yes, the hard-ass, the no-having-ass, and the fat-ass.
- I got a cool one near me in a very red state that is the typical male female then a half half and a last alien figure that reads "whatever just wash your hands". Best take I've seen so far for anyone sane.
  
  At a local seafood restaurant that I love, it's the same sign but with merpeople instead of aliens.
  I move that we encourage more restaurants to adopt these signs!
  Also, mine is in Texas, albeit in a blue city.
- What are your pronouns?
  
  wheels/wheeled

The windows taskbar at the bottom
- Not just any windows: ✨ vista ✨ 😂
  
  Thats Win 10, I'm almost certain. Vista you would see the orb being taller than the taskbar, and there wouldnt be a square "notifications" box like there is on 10 at the far end.
  signed, Aero's biggest warrior
- Big 🐧 sending subliminal messages that 🪟 is 💩
  
  i normally despise emoticants, but this works
  
  Big 🐧? Is that why trump tarrif'd them islands?
- It's future-proof since it can be updated every legislative cycle.

i bet he has a gender neutral bathroom in his house.
- Judging by her name "Jan" she is a woman.
  Also her Twitter profile makes it pretty clear that she is a woman and an idiot (or a troll)
  
  Jan “Yan” is the same as John in much of the world. though I'm betting this person is from the states, probably a red one.
  
  we don't read anymore, just react

Remember in starship troopers they had co-ed showers. If we can fight bugs while accepting gender neutral showers, wtf are we even doing today?
I'm doing my part.
- I am not sure that a movie depicting fascism should be the thing we aspire to
  
  Focusing on the gender neutral showers. Not the military = citizenship thing.
  
  Depicting or making fun of?
  
  Fine. Remember Ally McBeal? no? ok...
  
  The movie is a jab against that idea.
  as [Paul Verhoeven, the director] states in the film’s DVD commentary, the central takeaway message of Starship Troopers is that “War makes fascists of us all.”
  -- Owen Morawitz on medium.com

Airports are infrastructure buildings. This is like seeing a billboard telling you not to hatecrime gay people and boycotting the highway.
- Wait, gay people are allowed to use highways? Next you'll be saying gay trash is mixed with my trash in the truck. My pearls have been clutched so hard they're powder.

I have gender-neutral toilets in my house, so do all my friends
In fact, every household I've been in had gender-neutral toilets
They worked out fine
I've had creepy guys stare at my dick in men-only toilets, I've never had a problem with it in gender-neutral
It stands to reason that the problem is segregated toilets
(actually, it's men, but I'm sure even here there will be the "nOt AlL mEn!" types)
- There really isn't a problem at all. Just wash your hands after.

I insist that we should figure out who can go in a grayhound bus restroom.
Is it for men? For women? For trans or LGBTQA? Who?
We need a "if you gotta go, you gotta go!" Law.
- It's for the driver and his lot lizard.

Can we just get a bathroom design where they are a wall of stalls with a urinal and toilet inside and the hand washing station is on the outside without a door blocking the path? I hate bathroom doors after washing hands, especially when they don't have a way to open the doors without touching the handle. Just put the sinks outside the bathroom.
- I have been to places with this layout.
  Private stalls. Sinks and hand washing open and visible to the hallway. Nobody feels threatrned or uncomfortable.
  
  Nobody feels threatrned or uncomfortable
  And that makes conservatives feel threatened and uncomfortable.
- No one needs urinals.
  Case in point: No one has one in their home.
  
  Ah but the toilet sitters do appreciate how much less urine is on the seats and around the bowl. I would have a urinal in my home if I was to remodel my bathroom. They are convenient.
  
  That's a bad argument. How many people have hundreds, maybe thousands of people using their toilet every hour? Urinals are made for high traffic areas, where large numbers of men need to pee, and they also save water by not needing to be flushed every time.
  
  Home bathrooms are single-occupancy, plus most people don't have the room. They're definitely beneficial for higher volume places as add much more capacity for less space, and act as an "express lane" of sorts.
  
  There are people with urinals in their home though, although they are rare.

Family bathrooms are also great. Once flew with my intellectually disabled sister who fucking fingerpainted a rest stop stall on a previous trip when my mother broke her arm chasing her to the bathroom and she was left to her own devices. This time I brought gloves and wet wipes and there was a little suite kinda thing. I didn't need the child size toilet or the breastfeeding couch but the nice big accessible area around the adult toilet was good to have. She wasn't constipated that time so I didn't have to stop her from digging it out manually again but man; if I'd had to I totally could've! 10/10 would use a family bathroom again.
- Disabled bathrooms are also spacious, to allow wheelchair users easy access.

The last Biden mandate was that every home would have a gender inclusive restroom, and every home has one by default. Lol
- By god, he did it! Incredible!

The parking lot is peak gender neutral restroom though. Less accommodating to women but I know a lot who still manage.

I welcome unisex bathrooms but that's kind of a false comparison. Airplane bathrooms aren't communal, only one person can use the room at a time
- How do you define "communal"? In Europe it's common to have fully enclosed "stalls" (basically rooms in themselves) - either with their own sinks or the sinks are indeed outside and shared by all.
  
  In NA the stalls tend to be open above and below, never mind urinals which are just out in the open maybe with small "blinders" in between if you're lucky. Personally, I don't care, but I could see people being more shy in that situation.
  In bars/clubs I imagine there'd be an issue of more people taking up stalls to hook up since you wouldn't need to be sneaky about entering/leaving the washroom any more, but maybe that's just trashy behavior that can't be helped anyways.
  
  I looked up pictures of this airport's bathrooms and it's a standard shared sink counter situation. The toilets are, of course, private.
  What you described exists here as well but I've never seen it in an airport
- Airplane bathrooms aren’t communal, only one person can use the room at a time
  What? Maybe we have different definitions of 'room,' but every airport I've been in has a room with several stalls. More than one person is able to use the room at a time.
  
  Toilet stalls are private, the rest is communal. Often including urinals in the men's bathroom

Is the parking lot gendered?

"Outside" is the original unisex bathroom

Can someone explain what this title is supposed to mean?
- The implication is that the complainant is in an airport, and airports use PA announcements for things - in this case, trying to get some logic to the complainant so they understand that the airplane bathrooms are also 'all gender' and their complaint isn't logical