Do you feel nervous or uneasy using unisex loos?

C'mon then, explain! What's your problem? Did your mother teach you bog paper origami and tell you the bog fairies would get you if you didn't use it?

I hate them. I had to leave pub to find other loos once, as every single cubicle I tried had pee on the seat and floor (and worse). Also hate meeting blokes there. Just bring back normal loos!

I've been lucky in that I've never had to feel uneasy or nervous in one yet, but they gross me out. They always stink - not sure if it's that manpiss is stronger smelling, or there's just more urine that gets left, or both.

It's really not fair for women who have trauma to expect them to share though.

(That's probably more detail than anyone needed at 8 in the monring. Sorry!)

No. I wipe the seat when necessary but my buttocks are not absorbent and my immune system is normal so why would I? I did try putting bog paper on the seat once out of curiosity but it wouldn't stay in place so I couldn't see the point.

I sit on the seat without a care in the world and after 62 years have never been proven wrong

No never

Male urine is much more pungent than female urine.

It isn’t. It’s exactly the same chemically.

Hence the marking of territory by male animals.

Female animals also mark territory with urine.

Women who don't mind sharing toilets with men must be extremely privileged. I assume they have not experienced sexual assault, rape or male violence, which must be nice for them. Clearly any thought for women and girls who have been victims of those things has never crossed their minds.

What a repellent thing to say.

i have been a victim of serious sexual assault and extremely severe male violence, so you can shove your ignorant assumptions where the sun doesn’t shine, thanks.

If you can make assumptions like that about other women purely because of their views on toilets then you are not the feminist you think you are and you do not fucking speak for victims of physical and sexual violence like me.

If you really gave a shit about women like me at all, you would never make that assumption in a million years.

If you consider yourself a feminist, you really, REALLY need to do better and you need to understand that you are not supporting other women by denying their experiences. Perfectly fine for you disagree with me on toilets, but not fucking fine at all to deny my experiences or accuse me of being privileged.

I definitely avoid unisex toilets if i can. My most recent experience has been at the Design museum where all the toilets are unisex. Predictably the toilets are disgusting, pee all over the floors, toilets left unflushed and just much dirtier than any women only toilets in a museum I've ever had to use.

Would never use one even if desperate.

You realise that you could easily meet a CEO in the women’s loos, surely?

I hate them..always feel on edge.

They're hugely variable. I've been in some which are roomy and pristine - they're fine. I've been in others which are cramped, dark, and with a wet floor which is distinctly unpleasant, as well as narrow corridor outside where you have to squeeze past men to get out. I'd rather queue for the women's than have to navigate those ones.

Male urine is much more pungent than female urine. Especially when it has been all over the floor all day. Hence the marking of territory by male animals.
Women who don't mind sharing toilets with men must be extremely privileged. I assume they have not experienced sexual assault, rape or male violence, which must be nice for them. Clearly any thought for women and girls who have been victims of those things has never crossed their minds.

Really doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

I’ve only used one at the co-op arena and tbh it was fine

I’ve only used one once and I hated it. Self-contained loos (ie with a washbasin) that are unisex are ok. Communal ones are not. They feel very unsafe to me.

I’ve only seen unisex loos where they’re individual/ standalone cubicle with its own entrance, sink etc. not where they’re multiple cubicles with a common door and sinks.

One venue near me decided to introduce all unisex loos when they increased their toilet provision. A mix of specially designed unisex toilets and a rather bodged conversion of the existing facilities. It didn't last.

They still have one set of the new unisex loos (a long row of little rooms on a narrow corridor) but they soon restored a set of women's loos. These were the old cubicles with shared basins in the middle and were just embarrassing for both sexes when they were mixed-sex. Epic fail. Each sex tried to use a different side of the room.

Before they restored the women's toilets I was reluctant to go to events there and I don't use the unisex ones now.

I don’t feel at all nervous even if I’m on my own apart from a bloke. Although I guess I would if there was some reason he gave me the creeps.
I don’t like using men’s loo’s generally as they can be more dirty.

As long as I can find a toilet to use, I really don't care how they're designated, or who else uses them. I do mind finding other people's bodily waste in the cubicle, and since I tend to use public toilets built for women, I can only conclude that not all women leave the place as they (or I) would wish to find it. It's not just the manky men leaving the place filthy.
Anyway. No, unisex doesn't bother me. Actually, my best toilet experience at a gig was the time I bypassed the queue for the ladies and went into the one for 'all genders'. Not sure where, but Brighton is probably as good a guess as anywhere else. It was totally empty and sparkling in there. I presume nobody else fancied it.