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[–] AnonymousMoose 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I worked as a bouncer for about a year in a bar. I would be absolutely, totally against this.
First off, for the men's bathroom. There is a puddle nearly everywhere on the floor from guys with too short of bats not stepping up to the plate by the end of the night. So women, tell me please about how comfortable you're going to be standing in urine. Cause it's kind of expected for us. Now you might say eliminate the urinal, and that wouldn't be as much of a problem? You'd be wrong, because now all those women who wanted to sit on the seats are going to have to deal with guys who didn't want to risk "germs" by touching that seat and lifting it up and instead pissed all over it. Making it filthy so no one wants to touch it. Girls wind up looking at a mess like that and deciding they'll take a piss either at home or in a bar that has a normal fucking bathroom.
That being said, as a guy, I'm not comfortable with what the girls did to that bathroom every single night. Flat out, just... no. I'd stop going to bars that implemented gender neutral bathrooms, due to the disturbing shit I regularly saw in the women's bathroom. If every single bar implemented that, I'd just stop going to bars altogether. Now part of that is going to be simple, the end of the night shit where yes, there were oftentimes a toilet backed up because some girl hadn't figured out by the age of 21 you're not supposed to fucking flush a tampon down the toilet. Like, seriously, how the fuck did some girls not figure that out before that age? I'd get it if the drinking age was lower, some people go through puberty late, that sort of thing. But to have gone through puberty over 5 years ago and still not understanding something that simple, that often... boggles my mind.
And finally, my biggest problem with a bar that had gender neutral bathrooms? The stalls would be taken by people fucking way too often. It would be just too easy and accessible, and way too natural of a problem for it not to occur around drunk people with lowered inhibitions not to take advantage of.
Other places with gender neutral bathrooms? I mean, whatever, if they want to do it knock themselves out. But it certainly shouldn't be enforced, and no bar should really ever consider doing this.