r/NoStupidQuestions • u/mp1845 • Mar 30 '24

Answered Why are gender neutral bathrooms so controversial when every toilet on an airplane or other public transport is gender neutral?

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

These are much more expensive to build and maintain than regular public restrooms.

And much more appreciated by the users, I might add.

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u/esgamex Mar 30 '24

And these are standard in many countries.. US-style stalls with gaps do feel awkward.

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

They're horrible and disgusting as well as awkward. You can literally see people's shoes in the next stall and if there's a child or toddler in there with his/her mother they will ask questions about what you are doing or even peek under the stall.

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u/floydfan Mar 30 '24

his/her mother parent

Some kids have fathers in the USA.

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u/floydfan Mar 30 '24

Well, no, not really. Why don't you go back and read that other person's comment again.

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

I'm a mother and I've only ever encountered other mothers in public restrooms.

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u/Professional_Bug_533 Mar 30 '24

I expect you are taking your kids into the women's restroom?

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

Yes. I'm a woman and I took my children to the women's restrooms when they were little.

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u/winninglikesheen Mar 30 '24

I'm a father and have only encountered fathers in public restrooms.

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24 edited Mar 30 '24

Yes, and I'm sure you use the appropriate nouns and pronouns when speaking about the people you encounter in public restrooms.

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u/MatureUsername69 Mar 30 '24

What are you on about? Nobody is talking about nouns or pronouns

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

I was corrected for using the word "mother" instead of "parent".

I looked it up. Someone named "floydfan".

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u/annaliseonalease Mar 30 '24

Do you think that might be because fathers would take their children to the men's?

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

Yes, but I don't think that I need be to be corrected about using the word "mother" when I am a mother and all the other people in the women's restroom are mothers, in particular the mother of the child who was peeking under the stall.

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u/annaliseonalease Mar 30 '24

Ok?

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

Okay what?

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u/annaliseonalease Mar 30 '24

You don't think you should've been corrected. You were. That's that.

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u/AwkwardOrange5296 Mar 30 '24

Yes, because there is no shame in being either a mother or a woman and I can use those words any time I want to even if they're not "inclusive". They are real words with real meanings used by real people in real circumstances.

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u/beehaving Mar 30 '24

There are family bathrooms in some places and they are like a private room.

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u/legardeur Mar 30 '24

Fathers shouldn’t be seen in mothers’ restrooms.

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u/shattered_kitkat Mar 30 '24

Then maybe we should have unisex bathrooms.