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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

If bathrooms were properly designed instead of having half walls that don't even meet, I doubt people would care nearly as much.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago

They'd find a reason to care because this is about maintaining patriarchy and queerphobia.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

I love the way Alamo Drafthouse in Texas did this. Each stall is a fully walled environment and there's a long sinkway for everyone. No one gives a shit that it's male and female together.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 39 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So funny what issues the conservative fossil fuel media comes up with to avoid any climate actions. People discussing genitals before extinction definitely show how Darwinism was right. Humanity will die of stupidity.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

if I owned the establishment

removes sign entirely

BATHROOM

"There, y'all figure it out."

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 23 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

"This sign is bullshit. There's no baths in that room! Just a bunch of sinks and toilets!"

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Back home we do actually use a "toilet" label for bathrooms with only toilets. Needless to say, my first visit to America made quite a few laughs when I asked where the toilets are so I can wash me hands.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 2 points 39 minutes ago

Reminds me of a comedian who said he likes the European way and started asking "where is the toilet?" in the US. People stared at him saying "In the bathroom".

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In US introductory psychology courses, one common exception is to deliberately violate some unwritten social norm. Something that is never stated anywhere, but we all just customarily follow. My favorite example is, while visiting a friend's house, ask if you can use their bathroom. When they say yes, go to their bathroom and take a bath.

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

Absolutely fucking beautiful!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I like how we sometimes call them "restrooms." I don't know what y'all are doing in there, but I certainly ain't resting. I'm usually fighting for my life if I actually am using a public toilet instead of waiting to get home.

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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If trans-men wouldn't endanger themselves by doing this, I would encourage them to chill in women toilets.

But they shouldn't put themselves in harm's way just to prove a point.

We should just treat them right and protect them from this nonsense.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

We should be prepared for a fight on that front. The current uproar is about trans women. Put a trans man in power (anywhere) and the shit is really going to hit the fan. The rhetoric will shift from pseudo-sexualized bathroom nonsense to "how dare you disrupt our patriarchy."

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 17 minutes ago

Transphobia both currently and for basically the last 50 years at least has always been framed and rooted in the idea of protecting women from predatory "men". Trans men have been a footnote, at most and I doubt one becoming prominent will have the impact you expect.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Last night I was thinking about the Sarah McBride situation and it got me thinking.

"I wonder if the first black person in congress was told he had to use the Colored Room?"

She just needs to pee!

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Have you watched Hidden Figures? There's a point in the movie where having different "colored" restrooms (at NASA in the 1960s) comes into play and... well, the resolution is pretty satisfying.

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