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    5 days ago

    What you’re seeing here is numbered doors of toilet stalls.

    This picture is from the inside of a restroom area, so any gender icons would be the outside of any door in here anyway.

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    • @Sergio@slrpnk.net
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      745 days ago

      ytf do they number their stalls? is it like: “help, my zipper’s stuck! I’m in stall oo. Whatever you do, don’t go into stall o!”

      “where did you say you were?”

      (sighs) “stall oo, toilet |||, co-sharing toilet roll ~~~. Hurry!”

      • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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        345 days ago

        “Hey Randy, grab the bucket, someone’s had explosive diarrhea all over stall three again.”

        Putting in a support ticket. “Flushing problem in stall two of the toilets on the second floor.”

        So Randy doesn’t need to go through all the flushes to find the broken one.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        34 days ago

        I read “stall oo” in my head pronounced like in “food” which is hilariously useless information for those needs

  • When you’re Nonbinary every bathroom feels like this, not because you don’t know which is which but because you don’t know which choice is more wrong or will get you in more trouble.

    • Dragon
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      74 days ago

      Out of curiosity, what do you usually choose? I would imagine men tend to be less likely to care, but also maybe more dangerous if they do happen to care.

      • I usually go in the women’s room because people clock me more feminine than masc. Men’s room is very risky because they might not care but they might also be violent. If the bathroom is busy I pee sitting down so no one sees my feet facing the wrong way, I don’t really like it and it feels awkward to do which is why I pee standing up when it’s not busy or no one else is in there. I have been caught a few times and the women gave me shit for it, though it was always yelling, chastising, or slurs, they never got violent with me. Most violent one got was grabbing my ear and escorting me out of the bathroom. I don’t know if I could trust the men to do the same. I heard a story of a trans woman who was physically and sexually assaulted and murdered in a men’s room. That story is very much burned into my mind.

        I usually try to avoid public bathrooms in general but lately that’s been harder.

      • Ziglin (it/they)
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        14 days ago

        I usually end up holding it in so the one at my house ;(

        (If it’s bad I go to the bathroom which matches my agab though but it’s not been necessary often)

      • @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        84 days ago

        Men don’t give a shit about who is in their bathroom, in my experience. Women, on the other hand, often stopped and harassed me when I was presenting female but cut my hair short (AFAB).

        • I’ve been harassed, yelled at, and insulted by women in the women’s room, but at least they never physically assaulted me. I don’t know if I could count on the men in the men’s room not to do the same and I’d rather not take the chance. I remember a story about a trans woman who was killed in the men’s room and it still gives me chills thinking about it.

      • That’s what I usually do. Some people get mad or annoyed with me but I imagine it could be physically dangerous to go into the men’s room.

      • @dnick@sh.itjust.works
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        14 days ago

        I think I’d disagree there, unless youra woman walking in half undressed i doubt you’d get more than a questioning glance if that, on top of the fact that it seems like a much lower bar to pass as male.

        Honestly, short of the Karen type who is looking around for things to get pissed about you probably won’t hear much of a fuss in the restrooms themselves on either side, really seems like the butt hurt people are men worried about who’s going into the women’s room, or women worried about the potential rather than anything that’s actually happening in the moment.

    • @cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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      265 days ago

      1+2=3

      There’s no place for a number 1. If you’re not going to shit, then you’re not allowed to pee either.

    • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      75 days ago

      Is it possible to #2 and not #1? I don’t think my plumbing works that way.

      Actually now that I think about it, back in highschool one of my friends took a shit in someone’s vegetable crisper and I don’t recall him pissing all over the place when he did. So it must be possible.

      • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        44 days ago

        It’s technically possible for everyone, barring some specific quirk or injury, but men generally find it easier to only shit. I looked it up a while ago and the research was American, so I do wonder if it’s because American men tend to pee standing up and they therefore have a bigger mental barrier between #1 and #2.

        I’d like to see the study repeated with men who sit to pee or women who stand (it’s possible and not inherently more difficult than for men, but clothing and culture make it a lot less common than the other way around), because I suspect that the mental barrier is the key here.

        I suspect there’s a difference because of other culture-related urination urges. I grew up doing a lot of swimming in lakes, and I was never really discouraged from peeing in the lake, as long as I wasn’t right next to someone (probably pretty gross for some people, but I honestly can’t bring myself to find it very gross). That’s my main experience with rapid, immersive temperature changes, and I still feel an almost overwhelming urge to pee when getting into or out of the shower or any body of water. I can pee immediately before getting into the shower, but that doesn’t make a difference. Infants have the temperature response too, which is why you need to be careful changing a diaper in the cold, lest you get peed on. It can be trained out of you though: a friend of mine grew up swimming competitively and had a lot of experience jumping into and out of pools, where she was discouraged from peeing (thankfully). She no longer feels any temperature related urge to pee that she notices.

        • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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          24 days ago

          no worries. i was going off the original: janitors in the los angeles unified school district in like the 1960s, radio reporting bathroom incidents without making kids giggle. #4 was blood.

    • @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      24 days ago

      You don’t do a #3, a #3 is when your kid does a massive high pressure shit, it squirts up out the back of the nappy and into their clothes. Just hope it doesn’t happen indoors, or in the car or really anywhere.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        24 days ago

        Had that happen in a restaurant. I was at the opposite end of the packed restaurant from the restrooms. I got a lot knowing nods from a lot of folks as I walked through holding the very smelly child at arms length due to the amount of soilage at play

  • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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    144 days ago

    IMO:

    They’re gender-neutral. The two and three on the door are so that people can be told which one needs work.

      • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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        64 days ago

        Also of interest, door 3 has no handle, but maybe an occupied medallion.

        the close faucet is casting two shadows, while the far sink is casting one.

        The 3 is well to the right fo the door while the 2 is mostly centered.

        While not conclusive, these are red flags for AI.

  • KillingTimeItself
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    324 days ago

    i mean.

    The two look like boobs, and the three look like a penis, so… Case closed?