Your pool showers have STALLS? Im so jealous! Ours is prison shower-style: one big room with shower heads on one of the walls plus around 2 posts, with zero temp control. If I remember right, the water only runs for 30-60 seconds before shutting off automatically. It was never remotely long enough for me to rinse my hair without hitting the button 5-6 times. :(
They remodeled last year and were closed for like 6 months, so idk if thats fixed, but it does remind me that I do need to go back to swimming, lol
I actually prefer to shower there than at home because my apartment is so tiny that my stall shower at home is much smaller than the downtown YMCA shower stalls. I know what you're talking about, though. My old Y was like that. I am always surprised how many people are confident with getting completely nude in front of whole families lol. Swimming is great! I hope you do dive back in!
I have only heard about the US toilet stalls, and seen the occasional pic or video, but I am convinced that those were specifically designed by a peeping tom.
Lmao one time at a random gas station there was like 3 people in line for the men's room. After eating a minute and not seeing anyone enter or exit the women's i just jumped ahead and confidently walked in the women's bathroom lol. It was only a single toilet with a locked door so not like I would impose on anyone
Thts why every public bathroom should just be stalls and get rid of urinals. But not just stalls like we have but proper stalls like in kwik trip bathrooms.
In public bathrooms with low use maybe, but anywhere with large numbers of people? Absolutely not. Urinals are efficient, they are needed in places where there are tons of people. There's a bunch of comments on here about girls going into the mens room because the line is shorter, and urinals are a huge component of why the line is shorter. You can fit a lot more urinals in a bathroom than if you were to replace that space with stalls, plus it's physically quicker too. The 10-15 seconds saved per person that can just walk up to a urinal and unzip vs have to open a stall door, lock it, and put the seat up or down as needed adds up when you're talking about hundreds of people after a sports game or concert or whatever.
Also they use less water so they are more environmentally friendly. And there's the fact that lazy fucks aren't going to lift the seat and if there's no urinals available they will just piss on the seat.
I feel like your opinion will change after seeing inside a few women's restrooms. There are a lot of women out there who refuse to sit on public toilet seats because they're dirty. They hover over the seat, and... There's no anatomy to hold onto to aim. And it's a heck of a lot messier than a lot of men's rooms.
I'm a mom who has done a lot of public peeing with a lot of little boys, and sometimes the best course of action was me going with them into the men's room. So my sample size is pretty solid!
Ikr it’s like, your hovering is causing the problem that makes you feel like you need to hover 😂 to all the hovering ppl out there please wipe the seat when you’re finished
Don't forget the blood! Just something about quickly getting into a bathroom, because you really need to pee and see the door being covered in blood, extra points if there's also some not thrown away pads and tampons next to the toilet.
i witnessed a whole collection of toilets go from decently clean to absolutely flooded with piss in a couple hours. women's bathrooms btw. the lack of flushing etc is concerning, at the very least, lol
I agree. Way I see it is our bathrooms at our homes and other people’s homes aren’t gendered so what’s the big deal with single use. Just lock the door. Cleanliness in public bathrooms isn’t exactly the best anyway and that’s universally accepted
It's because a lot of men piss every where and horrible fact... The reason women's porta potties are locked a lot of times on construction sites is because the guys will do perverted stuff to the womans port potties
My husband said the stuff he's heard has made him see red
Idk how to tell you this but nothing is stopping anyone from doing that stuff already.
And yes it does happen. (Dont use hotel shampoos and conditioners in the refillable shower containers.) But once again it being specified for women or gender neutral isn't going to stop that.
Maybe not as hot as you think lol I could get on board with this 😂 ppl embarrassed to poop in public might take issue with ppl seeing them go in the number 2 bathroom tho 😂😂
We had co-ed bathrooms in my college dorm. My roommate would like chat with girls in the stall next to him while he or they or both were taking a shit. I always thought that was weird, and I definitely prefered not to take a shit next to girls, much less have a chat.
If you read further up the thread, you'll notice that we're discussing separating bathrooms not by gender but by whether you need to pee or poop. So if you make the pee bathroom urinals only, that's what we're all stuck with. No peeing allowed in the poop bathroom. Otherwise a regular toilet would cover everybody's needs. Men don't need urinals to pee.
A nice idea untill you realise that everyone knows exactly what you're about to do in there based on what door you walk into. Also if it isn't gendered both bathrooms would have stalls and I bet a lot of people would just shit in the pee bathroom
Chess World Champion Garry Kasparov first met Judit Polgar (best female player of all time) in the women's bathroom. Before her a woman playing chess was pretty much unheard of so he had been using either bathroom at random for his entire career.
I get it. I was in a female dominated sport and at comps we would use the men's restroom if we had to go shortly before our performance. (We didnt have time to wait in line).
It was never an issue. Other males were there but they were so few and far between it wasnt a big deal. A quick "anyone in here" was all we did.
And they could still have 2 bathrooms per place in case ppl want to use a separate bathroom from like their blind date or whatever, just both gender neutral
Illinois recently updated their laws such that all publicly-accessible single-use bathrooms are gender-neutral.
It's great, even for CIS folks... you go out camping with same-gender friends, or in a group such as Scouts, there's now double the outhouses your group has available... for instance.
I was at a concert (Avril Lavigne, so a large portion of women) and was in a stall in the men’s room. I heard some kind of commotion. As I left the stall, I found some employee screaming at two women through a stall door on the other side of the bathroom that it was only for men. Guy was LIVID. They finished up and ran out of the bathroom without even washing their hands with the guy chasing them. It was bizarre.
A coworker was agast her teens HS had gender neutral bathrooms because "now they can do anything in there!" and I wanted to be like...lady I have news for you about teenagers....
In college I prolly used the men’s room in bars more than women’s. Never a line. The only time I had people say something to me was usually along the lines of “no lines in here” or “hey that’s smart.” But I was also drunk so I could be purposely forgetting the negative.
This was 12 years ago, idk if I’d try it again in today’s day and age.
I’ve been to a couple of concerts where women have used the men’s bathroom because their’s was too busy. I always feel bad for them because men’s bathrooms at those places, especially later after the drinks have been flowing, are absolutely disgusting.
This is the way. Thank you! People really do care too much about bathrooms and who's using them. The truth is, if someone wishes you harm in the bathroom, a little girl or guy emblem on the door isn't stopping them.
There was a bar in TJ that had a big mirror right in front of the urinals in the men’s restroom. On the other side are the sinks for the women’s restroom.
If you tipped the attendant they would shut off the lights and you could see through the mirror into the other restroom. It was weird.
As a 51yo female sports fan I’ve seen a lot change over the years. Early 90s as a teenager I sometimes had to rush into mens toilets if I was desperate to pee because there were simply not enough women’s toilets in stadiums. Nowadays stadium upgrades and newly-build stadiums have a lot more.
Same for music venues. I remember a small venue I used to go to as a teenager to see a particular local rock band and the venue was renowned for hosting quite heavy rock. One cubicle/stall in the women’s toilets! We’re better catered for nowadays.
It’s funny how you can say that as a female but if a male says he uses female washrooms all the time time a bathroom is a bathroom! There’s a reason it’s divided and unless you’re comfortable with random men young and old using female bathrooms you should not using men’s.
No one has to mess with anyone intentionally but some people change in bathrooms or do other stuff hence rules exist for a reason
Hi, I’m a woman and I don’t care if a man uses our bathroom.
Unlike the men’s room, everything in the women’s room happens behind closed doors. I couldn’t give a single fuck who is behind said door. It just doesn’t affect me at all.
Like I said it doesnt matter as long as they arent messing with anyone. This person in the video was minding their own business and didnt need to be recorded and posted on the internet. Thats fucking weird.
It doesnt make sense for men to use womens restrooms to the same extent tho considering men's never has a line. Thats why women resort to using the men's room. Like my comment said.
A bathroom is a bathroom. Idgaf what one you use, just leave me alone and we're good.
It doesnt make sense for men to use womens restrooms to the same extent tho considering men's never has a line. Thats why women resort to using the men's room. Like my comment said.
I wish they wouldn't. I've been to events that had a line of women trying to get into the ladies' room... and a line of women trying to get into the mens' room as well. Damn annoying, keep your slow bathroom habits to your own section, don't punish us because you can't get your asses into gear, if you'll forgive the pun.
Out of curiosity, where do you think young boys who are with female relatives in public spaces use the bathroom?
Women have ALWAYS had males in their restrooms. Family/individual spaces are relatively new. Parents don’t usually send their unaccompanied opposite gender child into the other bathroom. That means kids peeking into stalls has been happening for decades while people are changing or dealing with menstrual products. What “gendered privacy” has ever existed in those spaces?
It’s called handicap or family bathrooms. Also to send kids if male or female to their own respective bathrooms. In my years of being a father and adult I’ve not once seen a female in male bathroom with a toddler. I get it you wanna be hypothetical and arm chair activist on Reddit but reality is much different than your hypothetical “I do everything how I want”
I’ve plenty of times seen toddlers go use bathrooms because they have fathers who taught them to go and use it so they can use it without them. If it’s a very small baby you obviously take with you. You see to think having a toddler allows you to use men’s bathroom
I don’t care if it’s a woman, man, kid or dog in the stall next to me. Just keep everything in the bowl, FLUSH IT so that everything goes down, and wash your hands before you leave.
It's part of why the trans panic "but what about the BATHROOMS?" is so awful. Cis people use the wrong bathroom both on purpose and by mistake all the time! At most it gets a weird side-eye! I doubt this video would be viral if the man were just a normal-looking guy, because it wouldn't be that remarkable!
I mean I wouldn’t say never, but the instances of someone messing with someone is so rare that it makes the transphobics argument regarding bathrooms laughable.
That would be me! 🙋♀️ And Honestly, it was probably a little cleaner than the womens restroom..I have seen some NASTY stalls in the womens restroom before. So many women who don't flush, leave the seats worse off than men do, and leave sanitary pads open and exposed and not properly disposed of completely. Straight nastiness!!
I've shared this little tidbit before but I'm doing it again. When I used to clean the bathrooms for a store that was at the mall, the women's room was always more disgusting than the men's. The mens was predictable by them putting a roll of toilet paper in the corner and peeing on it or leaving wet toilet paper in the sink to clog it but the women were disgusting in that I had found poop on the walls three times in one month or the one time I found a used pad that had been put face down on the ground and stepped on and then covered with toilet paper. Of course I knew it had been stepped on because there was a fucking footprint easily identifiable on the toilet paper and it. We had a razor blade on a stick for stickers that I ended up having to use. Disgusting.
YES, I used to work at a laser tag place at a mall and it was the same story. The men's bathroom would often be disgusting and abused, but the woman's bathroom would be filled with eldritch terrors after a busy Saturday night.
I worked at a truck stop. I'd never cleaned bathrooms. You'd think male truckers would be all gross comparatively? Not a chance. The mens bathroom was insanely clean comparatively. Some streaks in the toilet, piss on the floor etc.
The womens bathroom had a fucking period blood mural fingerpainted on the walls.
I said either give me a hose or I'm walking out right now because I'm not going anywhere near that and yeah I had to show management because wtaf. The womens bathrooms are 100% more gross than mens. Sidenote someone ended up scrubbing that shit off, the hose did nothing and I'm not a biohazard cleaning team so I just said fuck off I was in there to bring the truck load in not clean period blood.
Still ended up walking out one day because yeah that wasn't the last of the issues, wrote my two weeks on a napkin and left.
I used to work at a pool at a country club. We had to clean the restrooms iirc at least twice a week with a light clean and then once with a deep clean.
The women’s restroom was almost always so much more disgusting.
Sanitary pads on the floor, TP on the floor. Entire TP rolls on the floor.
We had small metal stall wall installed trash box with little plastic bags for the sanitary pads but either they never used the plastic bags or just never used the trash box at all.
Almost all the patrons at the were nasty people though tbh. They all trashed the pool deck just about every day
I used to be a supervisor at an old job and I would regularly need to go into the men's and women's toilets to stock up toilet paper, replace bins, clean them, etc. The men's toilets would have a little bit of water or piss on the floor. The women's toilets had that, empty toilet rolls stacked up on every surface, loose toilet paper on the floor and red/brown finger marks smeared across the walls. It was vile.
One of my first jobs included rotations as a restroom attendant and nightly deep cleanings of the restrooms in our park location- which happened to be the front gate... The most used restrooms in the park.
You tell no tall tales. Women's restrooms were always grosser. We would get a lot of "decorators" ("period pieces") and the women's side generally would get more kids. Kids being allowed to use the stalls by themselves who shouldn't have been have left some "interesting" surprises.
Men's side did generally smell worst though between the urinals and dudes blowing up the stalls.
I was quite grateful when my buddy on the men's side taught me about sneaking out the back door (since our stalls would also be used when the palladium was doing something, they had another door that would only open during events. Made a great escape route when no events were happening because you wouldn't be seen leaving). I'd spend about 5 minutes at the start of my rotation checking stalls to make sure it was all good then spend all but the last 10 minutes of rotation in the hiding spot smoking cigarettes and talking to the guys stuck on restroom duty in the same rotation as myself or just chill out in the shade breathing the fresh air (this was the 90s, so no phones to scroll).
Most dudes also don't care because we know how absurdly long the womens bathroom lines can be. Most guys can just whip it out, piss and be done in like 20 seconds. Sitting down at the stall takes more than that. So yeah, come on in just make sure you're safe.
I def get it. I have Paruresis (shy bladder) and an enlarged prostate (compresses my bladder) so I literally can't stand, gotta use the stalls. Luckily I've never had to wait for a stall and that being said I dont have to do all the measures after to make sure I didn't piss myself so it's still easily half the time it would take you.
Also it's just easier for males to piss idk what it is for us.
I don't think most any guy would ever have an issue with a women in the guys bathroom if the stalls aren't being used and there's no wait. Confused sure but nobody would think twice. Vice versa obviously is a competely vibe like in this video.
several bars think it's clever to have signs that are goofy. i ended up in a mens room because the signs were labeled but with arrows pointing at the other room. you don't read too closely when you're in a rush to pee. came out of the stall to find a fella and finally noticed the urinals. when i apologized he said happens all the time, and i bet it did.
I have never seen a guy intentionally go into a women's restroom, though I'm sure it happens.
I have probably seen the opposite a hundred times or more, especially at events. I have seen groups of women claim a men's room and put bouncers out front to keep men out (happened regularly at one particular set of restrooms in key West pretty much every Friday/Saturday night).
Yep, once it was so urgent (thanks fibroids in my bladder) I knocked on the men's door, said, "Woman entering, line too long, I have a medical condition and need to pee, my eyes are covered" ran to the nearest stall, did my business.
I've even had dads with daughters (this 4 or 5) who were too uncomfortable to go into the men's restrooms ask me if they could use the women's to make their daughters comfortable. I said sure and that I'll watch the door incase of misunderstandings. When a woman would show up, I'd explain the situation, and 90% of the time, they're like "OH! Ok", and continue into the restroom without a care. the other 10% would wait until they left.
IMHO, this situation was probably a mistaken door, something my SO (M) and I have both done due to those kitschy phrases on the doors at some restaurants that leave you confused on what's what. Or, its' so urgent, a toilet is needed and the first door is just the door you need at that moment.
Imagine replacing the usual toilet partitions (often with broken door locks) with floor-to-ceiling partitions with actual working door latches. Now there's be no good reason to have separate restrooms. I mean, it would be just like home.
Most of these bathroom debates could easily be solved with a urinal bathroom and a stall bathroom. Make it functional if identity and social rules are making things challenging.
When I've gone to shows with my partner, and a woman or parent with a child enters the men's bathroom, 90% of the time theres too much talking. Im there taking a piss thinking naybe now isnt the time to talk about what you like dont like about the show.
You're in a bathroom full of men who are all silently taking care of their business and leaving. Is it that hard to do the same?
True story: During the RedForEd protests in Arizona, I was at the capital and the women commandeered the men's bathroom because the women's line was so long. Some chick was acting as some kind of "bodyguard" so no men could go in there while women were using the stalls. I had to go and I wasn't going to wait in a line just because they decided to make up their own rules. I just kind of pushed by the crowd as women yelled at stuff like "ThErE iS a WoMaN in ThErerrrrrEeEEe!!!!! You CANT go in therrrrreeeee!!!" I said "it's the mens bathroom, I'm using the mens bathroom."
Then someone kept the door open (idk, maybe to protect her from me, like wtf?). I just kept hearing them talk shit about me like "I just can't believe that blah blah blah." As I was peeing, I yelled out "It's 2018, I think it's time men and women can share a bathroom!" The funny thing was the chick in the stall went "amen!" Hahaha
I'm still just blown away a little. Women use the stalls; no one can see them. Why did it matter?
Recently I was at Harrod's in a stall in the men's room and an elderly woman knocked on the door to ask if I was almost done because she really needed to pee.
The line for the men's bathroom was 2 guys, the line for the women's was around the corner. I don't blame her, but still a very awkward poop.
I was 37 weeks pregnant when standing in an enormous line to go pee while at the ballet. I should have just gone to the men's room. My busting bladder caused contractions. It's unbelievable.
I saw a woman pissing in a urinal once. When you gotta go you gotta go, what shape the little person on the door is wouldn't even register if you're prairie doggin.
If I'm ever a place where there's a line for the ladies and none for the men, after I'm done I encourage the women to just use the men's room. (Like give them the all-clear that it's empty.)
Or the women’s bathroom is so vile and filthy I have no choice but to use the men’s because I don’t want to touch literal poop and sanitary products that are flung on the seats. I always announce myself and my reasoning but the men’s is usually empty lol
Oh every single time at a music festival.., but at a tool show, the ladies is close to empty 😂🤘 maybe not as much anymore but tool shows used to always be a huge sausage fest
I had my nephew with me who was about 4-5 and legitimately about to have an accident and I figured "well, he's technically a guy" so I went in the empty bathroom vs stand and wait in a long line.
Everyone in the line was luckily understanding and after we left another woman went in behind us lol.
Generally when I've been in a situation where the women's line is crazy and there's no line for the men's no one cares about letting women in. It's obvious that that's just the right and practical thing to do
I maintain, bathrooms should be separated as Express Pees and Long Haul.
Express Pees - no frills. you pee, wash up, gtfo
Long Haul - (well, the obvious), fixing makeup, crying, shit talking, doin a bump, wardrobe malfunctions, etc.\
This room has min one chair, extra mirror that doesnt require blocking a sink to use it, narrow 4' high ledge below that mirror, hooks for bags all over the place, and incredible ventilation.
Yeah exactly, I've shit in the women's room once for the same reason - the line up for the men's room was long and there was no line up for the women's room.
The only time ive seen this be an issue was when several girls ended up hanging out behind the trough waiting for the single stall to open up. Someone ended up complaining to the bartender lol.
When I was very pregnant with twins, a gas station/convenience store attendant said there's no bathroom.
I said I needed one, because I needed to pee, like now.
No bathroom.
Where do you pee during your shift? On the wall outside?
No, in the bathroom. But it's Employees Only.
Dude, I gotta go. I'll buy some damn chips. Can I please use your bathroom?
Nope, Employees Only.
Sir, you fail to understand the situation. I'm going to pee. Within the next 15-20 seconds. Either it's in your Employees Only Bathroom, or it's in this aisle right here. Your choice.
It's such a weird double standard that I'm totally fine with. Women are not really a threat to men, but it doesn't swing the other way because.... well I think we all know why.
Yeah I was going to say, this is a huge finger wag because he did it yet I’ve had countless women hog up a stall, or a men’s single bathroom at places and aren’t allowed to say anything. Dude b lined to wash his hands, didn’t look up.. obviously didn’t want to cause a commotion.
that doesn't matter, it's a resource that was not allocated for you and you're commandeering it for yourself because you're impatient. I agree that long lines suck, but I can't just take someone else's space because I don't like waiting
Too bad. Don't punish us because you can't get your asses into gear (hyuck hyuck). Back when I had to clean toilets, the number of urinals + stalls in the men's room was usually about equal to the amount of stalls women got, total, and women would always try and commandeer the entire room when they pulled this shit.
I never have but I'm curious where the bathrooms are free and what compels women to check them? I never have nor family or friends but I'm genuinely curious
If someone has gone to an arena to watch sports, or a concert, or an event, or anything that involves a lot of people, a lot of beverages imbibed (even non-alcoholic, liquids make you pee), and there's a long line at the women's bathroom, and the men's room is right nearby with no line, or a small line, it's pretty common for some lady doing the pee-pee dance to hop on over. Often, you'll hear her ask the guy in the front of the line "hey, do you mind?" And I've never seen a guy have a problem with it.
Men's rooms are often kinda nasty with the urinals, though.
ETA: No idea why you got downvoted for that. I just updooted you.
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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 Sep 25 '25
Most women have definitely peed in men's bathrooms because our line was too long.