PATRONISING / RE-EDUCATING
this is a progressive step in the right direction to stop making periods seem like an "uncomfortable" topic.
mixed sex toilets would reduce queuing
you think you're at risk? Because if someone was going to use the loos at work to attack someone, I doubt the female sign would put off a man going in for that reason
people who honestly feel this way need to grow up. Its a natural bodily function
If you are having chats so private that it could change dynamics than maybe you should be more professional and have them outside of the work place? Personally, sounds like high school girl's wanting to gossip.
you’d do these things in a cubicle wouldn’t you? Surely not in the communal area
My wife now uses it to shower and get changed after the gym in the morning. She's made lots of new friends
they are colleagues not potential axe murderers
Washing your hands while fully dressed is not a task that requires privacy.
not the same as eroding safe spaces for women - it is not a shelter, it is not a refuge. It isn't even the WI.
choose a more important battle. Wasting energy on the right to wash your hands without standing next to a man is distracting you
assuming the move to gender neutral spaces is driven by men, which basically makes no sense. Unless you count trans women as men
Why should those processes be hidden away from men, but not from women?
the risk in toilets is less because other people are coming in and out all the time
Not sure it is your works responsibility to provide makeup or chat rooms
take your confidential chatting time at lunch time or after work
perhaps that's why the employers have introduced it stop the excessive time women having personal chats in the loos
don't think the using it as an office gossip point is a good reason
good idea if it stops people using loos as rooms for “private chats”. Groups of women (no idea about guys, never been in a male only toilet) are beyond annoying
good idea because it avoids the thorny issue of having to decide which toilets transgender employees should use
women) should have valid reasons for why they what something, their desire or their preferences. Society should favour equality across all people, not just one sex over the other.
as workplaces become more equally mixed, gender neutral toilets actually improve things for the female
makes it more comfortable for people who identify as a difference
nice thing for society to do
just try it
separation of bathrooms in the first place was a form of subjugation of women. Similar opinions have been put forward for why single sex train carriages etc are a bad idea.
rape victim...needs need to be balanced with those of trans people, who are also very often victims of sexual abuse and violence
want the maximum footfall possible in toilets. this very definitely means unisex toilets
rape victims” seems to be a trump card that is used really specifically for issues around toilets and it’s not always that simple
separating men and women is a way of reinforcing the otherness and thus lesser status of women
only places where these gender separated places still exist aren’t countries where women are known for being treated with equal respect
Things change
have chats, put your makeup on and clean up spills. Times change and we all just have to roll with
Segregated spaces reinforce the concept of otherness
am talking about this specific topic, not women’s sports or refuges or the WI.
If nobody wants them , men included (who are allowed a voice) why are we doing it?
toliets should be used by the sex the individual identifies with
unisex is now the only option, I assume to be seen as an equal workplace
seems extreme but she has never been able to be in shared changing rooms, toliets or communal showers