Parents’ ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ Protesting Forced Gender Ideology in Schools Spreads Across Country

[Alex337]

I personally would not feel able to use a gender neutral stall based restroom without a chaperone but I’m just a woman so obviously I matter less. Many women suffer violence and sexual abuse from men, its not some hysterical irrational fear and we have every right to want female only spaces.

Maybe it’s different in the US but in Australia when we have single stall neutral bathrooms you’re in there alone so unless you wanted to pee with someone else in the stall with you there wouldn’t be room for a chaperone.

 

[Alex337]

To demonstrate here are the three stalls at my workplace:
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[Alex337]

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[ConfusedLucy]

The full doors would help. Otherwise I would feel safer with a friend outside in case a man tried peeping or using a camera phone. I often travel alone and having men free toilets is something I appreciate.

 

[Alex337]

The full doors would help. Otherwise I would feel safer with a friend outside in case a man tried peeping or using a camera phone. I often travel alone and having men free toilets is something I appreciate.

Oh, I think I’ve heard about this; is it true that toilets in the US have gaps in their doors?

 

[Pup7]

An XO karyotype is phenotypically female. You need a Y to be phenotypically male.

An XXY karyotype is phenotypically male.

An XYY karyotype is phenotypically male.

If you have XY chromosomes and were born appearing to be intersex, you’d not look much like a woman by puberty. It would be very clear that you were a karyotypical male.

 

[Pup7]

ConfusedLucy:

The full doors would help. Otherwise I would feel safer with a friend outside in case a man tried peeping or using a camera phone. I often travel alone and having men free toilets is something I appreciate.

Oh, I think I’ve heard about this; is it true that toilets in the US have gaps in their doors?

And under the doors, and under the walls…

I miss the South Korean bathrooms.

 

[Pup7]

I personally would not feel able to use a gender neutral stall based restroom without a chaperone but I’m just a woman so obviously I matter less. Many women suffer violence and sexual abuse from men, its not some hysterical irrational fear and we have every right to want female only spaces.

There are gender-neutral bathrooms here in Washington. I actually love them: they are single separate bathrooms, much like a half-bath in a home.

It seriously eliminates lines.

 

[Alex337]

Alex337:

ConfusedLucy:

The full doors would help. Otherwise I would feel safer with a friend outside in case a man tried peeping or using a camera phone. I often travel alone and having men free toilets is something I appreciate.

Oh, I think I’ve heard about this; is it true that toilets in the US have gaps in their doors?

And under the doors, and under the walls…

I miss the South Korean bathrooms.

That strikes me as a bit odd, is there a reason for?

 

[Pup7]

The real answer?

Not one soul has a clue.

In 44 years as an American, I’ve never gotten a sensical answer. I’m not even kidding.

 

[Alex337]

The real answer?

Not one soul has a clue.

In 44 years as an American, I’ve never gotten a sensical answer. I’m not even kidding.

Heh, guess it’s just one of those cultural mysteries. I’m now trying to think of things like that we have in Aus but my mind draws a blank at the end of a long day.

 

[Pup7]

Pretty representative, am I right, my fellow Americans?

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This is why your average Yank goes spare at the thought of universal toilets.

Because over here 98% of them look like this.

And I can’t say I blame them because I don’t like the idea myself.

 

[Alex337]

We’re known to have those in some shopping centres but we often have the full door set up, our have bottom reach the floor. But give me a true single stall, full door room any day!

 

[Pup7]

I’m serious when I say anything other than that particular style over here is a luxury.

 

[Alex337]

I’m sure it’s just like the UKs odd obsession with having two separate taps for hot and cold water, forcing a person to try to mix the streams by hand or settle for one or the other. I got used to that but it always made me homesick.

 

[ConfusedLucy]

They do and it’s grim. I wrapped my cardigan around my waist as a kind of modesty apron but I’m not really sure how menstruating women would be able to change a tampon discreetly.

 

[Pup7]

Newer houses aren’t built that way so much any more, though, and a lot of houses in the US used to be built that way. It has more to do with how pipes used to be designed and less with what folks wanted.

I hear you, though. My MIL’s house drives me mad. (My husband is British.) That and the add on shower in her bathroom. Oy vey. Far more pleasant at my BILs!

 

[ConfusedLucy]

Most people who upgrade their home bathrooms go for the mixer. Right now I’m choosing between cold hands and burnt hands!

 

[Pup7]

I’m actually American.

I manage fine. It’s all in what you’re used to. People aren’t routinely sticking their heads under the gap between the floor and the wall.

When I lived in South Korea I got used to the more European style of public bathroom. When I would use the bathroom in the buildings on base and it was always a bit of a cultural snapback.

But I wouldn’t want our gappy bathrooms as universal bathrooms even knowing it takes a contortionist to catch a view. It’s just creepy to me, as I think it is for most Americans.

In the States we have the universal experience of asking your neighbor in the next stall to pass some TP if your stall is out… It’s kind of funny. A hand comes under the wall and hands you paper.

 

[ConfusedLucy]

I will admit I am somewhat prudish about this and to be fair everyone was behaving appropriately. It was just a culture shock.