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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

And bathrooms

The only reason we have sex based bathrooms is because the women's bathrooms used to say colored on them and we never got the building codes changed.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

Thats not true. The history of segerated bathrooms are worse than that... during the Victorian era, public bathrooms were men only. Women were not expected to travel from their home, or carry piss pots with them. Women had to fight for their right to have access to facilities. Also employers used the excuse of lack of women facilities to not hire women. The reason segerated bathrooms exist in building codes are because of decades of women fighting for their rights...

Dont pin it on racism on good old fashion sexism.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, that's why in the rest of the world that didn't do racially segregated bathrooms there are only unisex bathrooms.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Most of the world has unisex bathrooms

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Pretty much any large enough venue will have urinals, anywhere in the world.

I'm not sure what gave you that idea.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Have you spent much time in europe or south America?

It isn't nearly as common outside the US, even in more developed countries

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Couldn't possibly help with preventing sexual harassment either.

Edit: people seem to be interpreting my comment as transphobic, it's not so calm your tits please.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

You know what would help a lot more?

Having actual walls and doors for the toilets and not pathetic incomplete partitions with gaps large enough you can accidentally see who's shitting.

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yes you're probably right on that account.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

The only sexual harassment that I hear about in restrooms are either trans people being harassed or cisgender people being accused of being trans. Both of these problems go away when you have desegregated restrooms.

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately I'm not so confident those problems would disappear, conservatives have a tendency to only follow the laws they like.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Sure, but they're more likely to harass you if the law is on their side. If we only made laws that everybody would follow, then there would be no laws.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

You aren't a victim when someone you don't like uses the bathroom

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Grass is green.

[-] Mist101@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah man, because it's definitely the trans kid doing the pee-pee dance and not the officer snapping coochie picks for "safety" we should be worrying about.

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

When did I say anything about transgender people?

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think they were talking about coed bathrooms, not about letting trans people pick the bathroom that matches their gender.

I personally agree that coed bathrooms would likely result in more sexual harassment/assaults.

[-] Mist101@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That's the same argument from a different false equivalency. Co-ed bathrooms exist all around the world. The fact that uncle Jim can't stop fantasizing about watching someone pee shouldn't stop other men from using the public restroom.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

It's called the Internet Jim. Look it up.

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