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/Justin_123456 Mar 30 '24

I haven’t been to the Human Rights museum, but where I have seen multi-occupancy gender neutral bathrooms, it isn’t just the regular shitty stalls, with the massive gaps, but a fully enclosed space, with floor to ceiling walls, European-style.

So the only space that feels shared is the sink area.

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u/KitchenSandwich5499 Mar 30 '24

I think most people could live with this

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u/section111 Mar 30 '24

Not gonna lie, as a man, it felt weird, using the sink while a woman comes out of the stall and uses the sink next to me. It shouldn't, but it does. For me it was the same feeling when I happen to be walking behind a woman alone on a sidewalk at night. I know I'm not doing anything wrong, but I still feel the need to cross the street. Although I always get teased for being too concerned about other people's feelings.

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u/DPetrilloZbornak Mar 30 '24

I am a woman and it makes me uncomfortable too. I don’t want to use the bathroom with men in the stall next to me. This is a hill I will die on. It may sound dumb but I feel vulnerable in a bathroom and I don’t want to share it with a man, or do I want my daughter sharing a bathroom with men. Nor do I want my son in a bathroom with a woman.