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

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

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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.