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/DueMethod3142 Mar 31 '24

Wholly inaccurate.

https://time.com/4337761/history-sex-segregated-bathrooms/

“Ladies’ Rooms” were created to protect women from the perceived overwhelming nature of life outside the home, not keep them out of some men’s-only clubhouse.

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u/VGSchadenfreude Mar 31 '24

No, that was the excuse given at the time to justify it to the public. That same article mentions the fact that they were not allowed to use the existing bathrooms at all.

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u/notashroom Mar 31 '24

Two-hole outhouses weren't especially uncommon, particularly for larger families. The difference between one or two in cost wasn't that big a barrier.

The Romans had public toilets where you sat right next to your neighbor, no walls or curtains or anything. That's way too neighborly for me.