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Have you ever used the opposite gender’s bathroom?

Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

  • No, absolutely not, this is very important (please explain why)

    Votes: 1 3.2%

  • Yes, once or twice when I was curious

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, to clean them as an employee

    Votes: 9 29.0%

  • Yes, to help a young child or elderly person

    Votes: 5 16.1%

  • Yes, why not, there was a long line in the other bathroom

    Votes: 10 32.3%

  • Yes, when the other bathroom was dirty

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Yes, when the other bathroom was inoperable

    Votes: 9 29.0%

  • Yes, by accident, I didn’t notice or recognize the gender signs

    Votes: 13 41.9%

  • Yes, other (explain)

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • Total voters
    31
Absentglare

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Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
 
By accident, but then I noticed there were no urinals.
 
Absentglare said:
Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
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"Girl-dad coming in, sorry ladies"....my face was so red but the women were perfectly understanding.
 
Absentglare said:
Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
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No. But I've guarded the door to the stall when my girlfriend used the men's room.
The women's was lined up.
 
Maybe unrelated, but any time I've wanted to use the men's restroom at a concert, show, etc. I've always noticed the line for the women's restroom was much longer. I was paid back recently when we visited a progressive city (I think Canada?) while traveling. There was one non-gender restroom and I felt the women's pain as I waited in a very long line.
 
I've been on a 13 person jury with 10 women and 3 guys. You better believe those women used our bathroom.
 
Yes, at work once or twice. We have two men's rooms and two women's, but they are all just individual half-baths -- four toilets total, four rooms. Our male-to-female ratio is about 7:1, so sometimes both men's rooms are occupied while both women's rooms are wide open. I've used them, rarely, on those occasions. But since they are all, as I described, just a bathroom, as soon as I go in and shut the door, it's a de facto men's room anyway.
 
Sure, at the theater during intermission, at crowded restaurants, and concerts. Fact is, the line is always shorter at the "men's" room. Never saw a reason to stand in line when the other rest room was empty.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Sounds like my work situation. Is it really a gender-specific bathroom when it's just one toilet? Should it be?
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It was when I used the women's bathroom at the gas station. I'd prefer a situation in which it doesn't matter. Just pick a bathroom, go in, and lock the door.

I'll lighten the mood with a story.

One gas station bathroom I visited had a sign inside that addressed domestic violence. The sign said "No one deserves to be beaten." Months later, the sign was vandalized to read "No one deserves to be eaten." The final vandalism read "One serves to be eaten." I had a good laugh about that one.
 
When you got to go, you got to go......

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.......luckily the gender police were nowhere around when I've had to do it. :rolleyes:
 
Absentglare said:
Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
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Yeah, I see it all the time at grocery store next door: men's room is occupied so they knock on the ladies room and enter if unlocked to use it.
 
Yup, had to clean bathroom/locker rooms when I was a lifeguard

Also used opposite when the men's facilities were down

Normally they were already single occupancy bathrooms anyway so no one cared
 
Helix said:
It was when I used the women's bathroom at the gas station. I'd prefer a situation in which it doesn't matter. Just pick a bathroom, go in, and lock the door.
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Yeah, that was what I was getting at. When it's just one toilet, of what use are gendered bathrooms?
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Yeah, that was what I was getting at. When it's just one toilet, of what use are gendered bathrooms?
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Make more bathrooms then. I have no desire to piss or shit near anyone.
 
Absentglare said:
Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
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Define 'opposite gender'.

What's the opposite gender bathroom of non-binary or pangender?
 
Helix said:
Make more bathrooms then. I have no desire to piss or shit near anyone.
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I mean when the bathroom is just one toilet. Like a men's room and a women's room, but each has just a single toilet. Just say you have two bathrooms and anyone can use either one.
 
Absentglare said:
Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
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I do not care about wtf uses bathrooms. I care that traitors want to destroy our Federal Government and replace it with Authoritarian fantasies.
 
Absentglare said:
Have you ever gone into the bathroom for the opposite gender?

I’ve always felt like the signs were mild suggestions for convenience and not a big deal. I’m kind of surprised people are getting hysterical about this thing that seems completely unimportant.
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Even though I always followed the rules in both the US and elsewhere, when I lived in Japan, lots of small shops had a single unisex bathroom, and I have used them. I don't think it's a big deal, but I really dislike people not following such rules of conduct, because the point of having them is that they are intended to be polite and respectful of others, and I'm enough of an ex-Girl Scout to intend that, too and dislike it when people don't.
 
I did at McGuire's Irish Pub. If you know the joke you will understand.
 
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