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I probably agree about the prose issue but what's your issue with gender neutral toilets? Seems way more efficient and far less stupid.

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I'm not sure that they're more efficient. Take for example the large open urinals. In a situation dominated by people capable of using them and where most people are using the toilets to urinate then having Unisex (or Omnisex) toilets is extremely inefficient.

A good example of this is pretty much any football (soccer) stadium. For matches most of the crowd are men and a large number of them are drinking more than usual. Heck, I've been in a stadium with a 50/50 crowd: even when the toilets were split 2/1 for women in favor of men there was always a long queue for the girls and nothing for the boys.

Since there are no pisoars in these it is far more stupid

It's healthier for the male prostate to pee sitting down.

That's complete BS.

Male toilets are always much more filthier than female toilets. If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.

I spent years working in nightclubs, and visiting them too, and this was never the case.

Hover-pee is a really common thing for women, and the results are what you imagine bthey would be.

Forcing women to use urinals is very much not a thing that happens.

By toilets I mean the room itself, not the appliance.

Oh, you mean the rest room.

Where people go to rest.

Or the wash room.

Where they go to, erm, wash.

Not native. But anyway I disagree that women squat pee. They usually sit to pee here. While men don’t so all the toilet (the appliance) and the ground are full of pee. Result: the whole room stinks of pee.

I don’t know why you’re downvoted. In the UK toilet means the room, not just the thing you sit on. It’s a perfectly fine clarification to make.

(I cringe every time someone uses the euphemism 'bathroom' to mean toilet. Like, we all know you are not going to take a bath in a pub after two pints right?)

> If I was a female I’d be pretty pissed if they forced me to use a urinal for men.

This is what I was replying to. Bit of a confusing way to say “enter a room containing a urinal” if that’s what you actually meant.

Go to bathrooms in airports, conference centers at hotels, or higher end restaurants and you might notice a pattern. They are clean, smells of detergent, and has this piece of paper usually next to the door with a time stamp.

Bathrooms are clean if you clean them. It is also more hygienic and gives a better impression of the place. Saving money by gendered bathrooms and only cleaning the bathroom once a week belong in the same gender discrimination category as other cost-saving tactics that involve gender.

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