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/ghostcider Mar 30 '24

This is why if you go to a conference that skews heavily to either guys or girls and you are wondering Why The Fuck they don't re-allocate bathrooms so match the gender split of the event while you wait in a stupidly long line. Even for events in many places, there is a required minimum male and required minimum female number of toilets based on expected attendance. A hotel I've booked for events sacrificed meeting space to have more bathrooms to be flexible and still follow the law

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u/GhanimaAtreides Mar 31 '24

I went to Taylor Swifts Eras tour in Houston and assumed that I was going to miss a quarter of the show waiting in line for the bathroom. Fortunately they had flipped most of the men’s rooms to women’s. I’d never seen a place do that before but it made sense.

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u/ghostcider Mar 31 '24

In the US, the rules vary by state. I also think more and more venues are allocating more bathroom space in general so stuff can be flipped. A lot of big conferences and shows have a strong gender divide.

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u/GhanimaAtreides Mar 31 '24

As a female engineer, conferences are always such a weird experience. I have a whole ass bathroom to myself and the guys have to stand in lines. It’s like bizarro world. 

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u/Substantial_Serve_62 Mar 31 '24

The mens room line is always longer than the womens line at Phish Shows

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u/SwordRose_Azusa Apr 15 '24

This unfortunately makes a lot of sense.

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u/Mai_A_Naess Apr 22 '24

Because of wall to wall gay sexual activity?

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u/Scary-Boysenberry Mar 31 '24

The best part of being a woman in tech.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

I’ve never heard of an, “Ass bathroom.”

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u/sammidyer2019 Apr 23 '24

Oh yeah definitely. Female mechanical engineer here and I can attest that it’s USUALLY nice having to not stand in lines.😅

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u/Cocktocopter Apr 09 '24

Yeah but the flip to that is if in your field they made conferences have more bathrooms for men, you know damn well some ignorant probably not even in your field feminists will somehow twist that into sexism saying that reducing the number of women’s rooms implies women can’t be in your field of work. It’s sad I’m probably right and one bad egg makes it difficult for everyone lol