LGBTA Thread

GKR wrote: A Person wrote: RayRo wrote: But the so called "unisex bathroom provision" was only a fixation point presented by Huston conservatives in order to derail a broad LGBT equal rights bill that would have guaranteed anti discrimination rights to the local LGBT community in areas such as career advancement, expanded health coverage protection for transsexuals, etc. All forms of discrimination are important to address but arguing over bathrooms is a lot less important than healthcare, employment, housing issues. I've seen numbers like 40% of all homeless youth being LGBT, it's crazy. And the murders.

Yeah those are particularly disturbing, being a black trans woman is basically a death sentence :\

But the sneaky Republicans used the bathroom issue to create fear (as they are very good at doing) and managed to get the anti-discrimination bill defeated. Yes, the bathroom issue is relatively unimportant. Yet the stupid people of TX were manipulated into believing it was THE issue at hand. 

RayRo wrote: But the so called "unisex bathroom provision" was only a fixation point presented by Huston conservatives in order to derail a broad LGBT equal rights bill that would have guaranteed anti discrimination rights to the local LGBT community in areas such as career advancement, expanded health coverage protection for transsexuals, etc.

All forms of discrimination are important to address but arguing over bathrooms is a lot less important than healthcare, employment, housing issues. I've seen numbers like 40% of all homeless youth being LGBT, it's crazy.

If BBQ grills are known for anything, It's pleasant pee.

Edited by Guldbamsen - November 09 2015 at 12:31

Smurph wrote: I figured that women would have more problems with unisex toilets because I remember in high school going in the girls bathroom a couple times cause no one was at school and it actually smelled good and was super clean. It's almost like all those stories were true. The girl's restroom is a magical place that doesn't have pee all over the floor and doesn't smell like a rotting raccoon carcass.

Almost all posts I've read on the internet by people who've had to clean bathrooms say the womens restrooms are worse by far in most cases. Peeing on the seat seems really common, explanations from girls seem to be that out of fear of sitting in pee, they will hover over the toilet seat, causing the exact thing they fear. It might be anecdotal at best, but my sisters are definitely bigger slobs in the bathroom than any of my brothers.

In any case, I would be happy with unisex bathrooms and think it is really detrimental to everyone to hold onto ideas such as "men are pigs/disgusting/perverts/etc".

The T wrote: ^^Also, the fact that men are pigs, at least in the US, and feel the need to spray their urine over the entire seat wouldn't help the idea of a unisex toilette.

Dean wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Anyone who's ever been to a music festival has probably also experienced the unisex toilets taken to the extreme.....and those of us who somehow managed to survive all of this know full well that toilets never ever will be the same again. We now thank our lucky stars that we get to sit on something that doesn't expose you to ebola and 4 kinds of chicken-pocks and furthermore that we've overcome the hardships of peeing while excited women are applying war paint in front of the mirror.  I welcome the progressive toilet.  Festival toilets have (unbelievably) improved a lot over the years - the facilities at Weyfest and Latitude were positively regal compared to Glastonbury's open pits of effluent. I was initially surprised to discover that not only I, but all in our party, had managed to survive three days at our first Glastonbury without wanting to venture anywhere near them. Needless to say we also avoided all the motorway service stations on the journey home too as it was evident from the condition of those that we were not the only ones, however I did pity the other customers at the pizzeria in Salisbury were we stopped for lunch that day as nature could not be contained any longer...

^^Also, the fact that men are pigs, at least in the US, and feel the need to spray their urine over the entire seat wouldn't help the idea of a unisex toilette. 

Edited by The T - November 09 2015 at 10:19

^^Exactly Dean, just to expand on your comment, if you're going to have unisex toilette, by god make them truly closed rooms without any low or high openings and without the usual idiotic empty space between stalls that make going to public restrooms quite the opposite to a private experience 

Edited by The T - November 09 2015 at 09:19