r/pointlesslygendered • u/affectionate4fish • Jun 12 '25
POINTFULLY GENDERED [gendered] This was on a single stall restroom too
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Jun 12 '25
Why do they have both signs on one bathroom
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u/EasilyRekt Jun 12 '25
single stall, figure it's communicating that it's unisex in this case.
Most unisex bathrooms have a similar marking of the typical male & female figure separated by a line so...
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u/PoPo573 Jun 12 '25
My work does this too. We have 2 single stall washroom both have a Men and Women sign on them and they're branded to our company. I'm assuming it's because the company I work for doesn't have a unisex or family washroom sign.
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u/Recon_Figure Jun 12 '25
Why not just a sign indicating it's a bathroom?
It's funny, but gendered and not really necessary I guess.
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u/demonotreme Jun 12 '25
Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough, anywhere is a toilet if you're drunk enough
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u/scarby2 Jun 12 '25
Probably because unisex toilets are still quite rare in many places and some people need to be explicitly told it's ok for them to use it.
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u/bocaj78 Jun 12 '25
It may be required by code
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u/NoodleyP Jun 13 '25
My school had “gender neutral bathroom” signs posted under the gender signage at one point as visible gender demarcation was required by law. Surprise surprise they’re de facto gender not neutral.
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u/SendMeAnother1 Jun 12 '25
So you know what to do to the flower when you get inside?
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Jun 12 '25
Ohhhhhh, it's instructions? I forgot my cloud at home though
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u/SendMeAnother1 Jun 12 '25
That's why you need a subscription so you can always access the cloud.
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u/International-Cat123 Jun 12 '25
One place I worked had this too. Too many people vandalized the restrooms in ways that put them out of order. One of the gender signs was moved next to the other door and that became the public restroom. The one with no sign because the employee restroom.
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u/prionbinch Jun 16 '25
someone dropped $500 on a cricut and all the accessories and dammit they're gonna get their money's worth
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u/Joltyboiyo Jun 12 '25
Honestly of all the stupidly sexist images I've seen for bathroom indication... this one isn't that bad.
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u/stickyfantastic Jun 12 '25
Why do women get the bigger penis? :(
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u/katatak121 Jun 12 '25
Do you know how big the clitoris really is? It's much bigger than you'd think.
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u/None0fYourBusinessOk Jun 12 '25
What you're saying is true, but I don't see how it's fair to give them the bigger penis >:(
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u/Dr-Assbeard Jun 12 '25
So they both they a bigger clit than men and a bigger peen, thus is so unfair
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u/No-Information-8624 Jun 12 '25
You understand that usually it's the vagina that do receive the penis inside and not the other way around ? It's seems pretty normal for a vagina to be bigger than a penis. Also they labor the baby 🥴
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u/PeronalCranberry Jun 15 '25
You understand that women don't piss out of the same orifice used for sex, right? There are a few holes there.
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u/No-Information-8624 Jun 15 '25
I do understand this, but a vagina is not only defined by its uretra.
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u/PeronalCranberry Jun 15 '25
Correct, but we're talking about a point quite a bit further up than the rest of the vagina. It's pointless and silly either way cause it's almost a literal pissing match to argue either way.
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u/bronzebattlecolt Jun 12 '25
Someone bought bathroom signs they wanted to hang up but then forgot they had just one unisex bathroom and just said, "fuck it, ill put it up anyways"
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u/Throttle_Kitty Jun 12 '25
I hate "cute" bathroom signs for the different genders
They're all always somewhere between cringe and actively agitating
Like I just want to piss please do not force me to view your awkward gender themed pop art
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u/PhraestoRed Jun 12 '25
I’m a man and I pee sitting…
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u/Buttfucker500 Jun 12 '25
Why?
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u/jimmylovescheese123 Jun 12 '25
Not op but - If you stand you get tiny piss droplets all over your legs. Gross!! And in public places toilets are often stalled - I don't wanna show my dick to the guy next to me in a urinal.
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u/Regnella Jun 12 '25
One is for clouds that break the laws of physics and the other is for regular clouds.
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u/Happy_Platypus_1882 Jun 12 '25
Is this a good place for an “unpopular opinion” regarding restrooms? They honestly shouldn’t be gendered. Sure, the peeing experience is different enough that there might aswell be two separate rooms, but it’s not like having a weenier is tied to your gender so why separate them based on gender? Honestly let’s just give every bathroom some urinals, remove male/female signs from the fronts, and just tell people to use whatever bathroom is cleanest. I feel like that removes almost any problems revolving around bathrooms, imagine being trans and not needing to worry about which bathroom you’re allowed to use and which you want to use.
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u/survivorterra Jun 12 '25
i agree with everything except just ditch urinals in general and have it all be stalls, i spent a semester in a dorm with gender neutral bathrooms and it was genuinely the best dorm bathroom experience i had (so much less hair in the showers)
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u/JeshyQT Jun 12 '25
As Someone who works in hospo large venunes ,stadiums and restraunts would be a fucking nightmare if the mens bathroom moved at the same speed womens do.
The urinals push foot traffic too a pretty signifcant degree
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u/survivorterra Jun 12 '25
i’m a sit down pisser so never considered the speed factor, another commenter replied abt bathroom division between just urinals and all stalls and i think that’d be a good idea
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u/BlooperHero Jun 13 '25
It's not just speed. They take up less space.
I've seen small bathrooms where the women's room had two stalls and the men's room had one stall and one urinal. The men's room was more spacious, but it was less likely someone would need to wait in the women's room.
But any smaller or larger then that? The men's room has more total toilets. Though sometimes they really squeeze in the urinals and they're very awkward to use.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
So men should have to have a worse experience than women because it improves efficiency for building owners?
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u/JeshyQT Jun 12 '25
How does having longer wait times and walls somehow equate too having a better experience? and how did you possibly extrapolate that from what i said.
Congested bathrooms for the sake of having stalls sounds like a vastly worse experience
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
How does standing exposed in public without privacy equate to a better experience? What's wrong with adding more toilets? You act like urinals don't get congested which is the entire point of the issue.
I shouldn't be stripped of the right to privacy because it is slightly less convenient for the person who owns the building to accomodate my body.
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u/JeshyQT Jun 12 '25
Because its quick and its fast and thats all i want from a fucking bathroom , i couldnt give two fucks if the guy next too me can see my cock but i sure do care if i have too stand around waiting
Adding more toilets just isnt always feasible , you can fit three too four people in the urinial space you could one toilet stall
I mean i guess if everyone had the space and money too just throw in more toilets that would work
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
...you can fit three urinals in the space of two stalls, maybe. Four in the space of one stall?? Are they stacked vertically???
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u/TurboFool Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
I disagree on ditching the urinals. They take up way less space and let people get in and out faster who can use them, freeing up stalls for those who can't, speeding it up for everyone. Alamo Drafthouse simply has ONE restroom area with two rooms, one full of stalls (with fully-closing doors), and one full of urinals with true walls between them. You go to whichever you need. It's super efficient, and everyone gets out faster.
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u/survivorterra Jun 12 '25
as someone who does not have penis hardware, i did not consider the speed factor. i actually really like that idea and was about to reply to the other comment that that would be a better way to do it
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u/rapidsgaming1234 Jun 12 '25
It also is much more water efficient.
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u/HotSituation8737 Jun 12 '25
Yeah but it doesn't taste nearly as good. The urinal cake is fucking awful aswell.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
On the other hand as a penis hardware owner, it's just another example where our bodies are considered objects of efficiency for others. Why should I be forced to have a worse experience just to make the process speedier and cheaper for others? It seems like any opportunity to turn men into profit is always excused.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
The catch is that you can't actually go to whichever you need because they replace toilets with urinals. There's not the same number of toilets and often there is literally only one. You're forced to use a urinal or wait around because the building owner wants to save money on the water bill. It's clearly discriminatory.
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u/TurboFool Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
Not at all correct in the circumstances I'm describing. Dozens of each, but the room of urinals is a quarter the physical size due to how much more efficiently they can be packed in. I think we're picturing vastly different types of bathrooms from each other.
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u/JacobJoke123 Jun 12 '25
I strongly recommend not ditching urinals. My dorm in college did not have them and was gender neutral, as a result guys would not lift the seat and just piss everywhere. If you wanted to sit in a toilet seat and not step in, or sit in a pool of piss, you had to go the the lobby or guest restroom.
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u/Bannerlord151 Jun 12 '25
I agree, might teach certain men to actually keep it clean
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
Spoken like someone who has never been a janitor lol
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u/Bannerlord151 Jun 13 '25
I didn't mean it in a genuinely hopeful manner. People will always be cunts for no reason. I've seen people literally shit next to the toilet.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 13 '25
Me too. And I still feel women's rooms are typically worse.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
There's only ever been one set of public bathrooms I was responsible for cleaning, but the women's room was always worse.
Of course, more women then men used that building. And, I suspect critically, about five times as many little girls as little boys.
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u/junonomenon Jun 12 '25
i use the womens room and i do not want urinals in my bathroom. i think all bathrooms being unisex is a great idea, but i would either ditch the urinals or put them in smaller stalls. i think its so weird and i have no idea why its normal
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u/fgbTNTJJsunn Jun 12 '25
Why is it weird?
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u/junonomenon Jun 12 '25
its weird not to have privacy when you piss
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u/Christoclast Jun 12 '25
Urinals still offer a decent amount of privacy. Men don't have to pull their pants all the way down, just open the front. And good bathrooms have small dividers between urinals, to prevent "peeking". It's something we get used to. If we want more privacy for whatever reason, we use a stall.
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u/junonomenon Jun 12 '25
yeah im not necessarily even arguing that like. culturally i understand this is something thats normal to men. but i think if we were to make all bathrooms gender neutral those out in the open urinals would be a bit weirder and more controversial. and personally i do not want to see that
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u/fgbTNTJJsunn Jun 12 '25
Why is it weird? Most guys don't care about privacy when they piss. Shit is a different story since it smells, but piss is piss.
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u/junonomenon Jun 12 '25
well im not a dude and i wasnt raised that way so i wouldnt want them in a unisex washroom, at least out in the open. i think dudes would feel weirder about it if bathrooms were unisex as well
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u/fgbTNTJJsunn Jun 12 '25
Could just have the urinals separate from the stalls 🤷♂️. They are such timesavers so it would be stupid not to have them.
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u/GoldenWaterfallFleur Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
I agree, think it is odd to not have privacy when you’re using the bathroom. I don’t quite understand who came up with this idea originally. I didn’t even think of urinals when it came to gender neutral bathroom. I’ll admit I’m a little unsure if I’m fully comfortable with the idea of them because as a woman I’ve never had them in the bathrooms I use and I’m not used to seeing strangers using the bathroom out in the open haha 🤔
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
The answer is thar urinals use less water thus saving money for building owners. Any opportunity to transform men into profit for others is always excused.
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Jun 12 '25
The privacy is bult into the guy code lol. We just keep eyes straight ahead at all times.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
Men don't want urinals in their bathroom either. They're forced on us because it uses less water.
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u/nightiinthewood Jun 14 '25
No, fuck that. I do not want to share a bathroom with men. The female bathroom, for many women, is a safe haven in certain situations. Men ARE different to women in certain ways and situations.
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u/Happy_Platypus_1882 Jun 14 '25
I see that perspective. . I guess I sort of thought about this when I was writing this, but at the time my mindset was that… this is probably closer to an ideal system, and if our current society cannot handle it then good lord there’s so much work to be done. I wish so badly that we could live in a de-gendered culture, and I wish so badly that solutions from it could be viable right now. But they can’t, because the reason we aren’t already using these systems is because the underlying problems haven’t gone away. Because you’re right, as much as I wish it wasn’t true, something about the way men are raised, and how their social dynamics intersect with women, usually create a disproportionate amount of them who will and do harass women if not so much worse. I don’t know what it would look like if bathrooms were de-gendered, and I want it to believe in the common humanity between all people. But I guess I never considered that part of why bathrooms are gendered is not just because it’s a byproduct of a dumbass gender based hierarchy, but also because of the outrageous amount of sexism, things are gendered at least partially because people are scared to interact in the same groups. Jesus there’s so much wrong with this world
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u/kszaku94 Jun 12 '25
Your solution, solves a problem for a very small community, while creating problems for other groups.
Nobody wants small girls being in the same bathroom as older men. I mean, there are some people who want this, but... You know.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
Small children go to the bathroom with a parent, which means that actually happens very often even in gendered bathrooms.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
Nobody wants small boys in the same bathroom as older men either and yet.
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u/kszaku94 Jun 12 '25
To be 100% fair, most women don't want men (or any other "penis havers") in their bathroom.
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u/iraokhan Jun 16 '25
As a woman, had unisex bathrooms in college. With cubicles. Didn't matter who went in.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
I think we can all agree that no one wants men in their bathroom. It just happens to be convenient for society to not allow men to have privacy.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
Are you aware that in places where men's rooms are large rooms for multiple users, so are the women's rooms? Like, 100% exactly equal?
You've drifted off of your obsession with urinals. This one isn't weird, it's just incorrect.
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u/kszaku94 Jun 12 '25
Its a nice logical fallacy you're making there, too bad I'm not falling for it.
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
I wasn't asking you to fall for anything. I just want to use the bathroom in private.
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u/kszaku94 Jun 12 '25
There is this thing called "men's bathroom", you should check it out
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 Jun 12 '25
Okay so you've missed the entire conversation up to this point? We're talking about how urinals don't allow any privacy and there aren't enough toilets in the men's bathroom.
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u/kszaku94 Jun 12 '25
In an extremely unlikely case when all toilets are taken… I usually just wait.
I don’t really like the urinals either, I’m a tall, long legged dude. But if my business is urgent, I’ll just use urinal.
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u/ChessSuperpro Jun 12 '25
It's mostly about safety.
Trans people should be in the restroom they present as. No exceptions.
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u/junonomenon Jun 12 '25
"presentation" is subjective. a trans person can be out and present as one gender, but still clearly be trans without hormones and surgeries. not only should trans people who do not "pass" be allowed in the bathroom of their identified gender, there should also be unisex bathrooms available for them to use if they so choose. its about safety. a cis woman may FEEL "threatened" if sharing a bathroom with a trans woman with stubble, but that trans woman, unless shes closeted and presents entirely as a man, is in actual, physical danger if she uses the mens room.
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u/No-Trouble814 Jun 12 '25
It’s not, it’s a relic of Victorian-era “separation of the sexes” ideology.
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u/turboshot49cents Jun 12 '25
As a woman I will say that if I have to pee badly enough it will come out a little bit forward
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u/TheWormyGamer Jun 12 '25
my guess is that they just didn't wanna buy a new sign. still weird af signs though
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u/affectionate4fish Jun 15 '25
Omg! Thank you! I didn't think a subreddit like this existed so I posted on this one instead!
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u/KokoAngel1192 Jun 12 '25
Ok yes, but it's really clever 😂
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u/1ustfu1 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
how is that clever 💀
edit: mass-downvoted for asking how “pee goes sideways vs. pee goes downwards” is a clever bathroom sign lmao we’re doomed
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u/Jasperisstupid Jun 12 '25
You're getting an extra downvote just for editing your comment to point out the downvotes. Thank you for wasting your time reading my pointless comment
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u/WindMountains8 Jun 12 '25
I mean, representing it as rain watering a flower pot is a creative way to do it. It's the first time I've seen it that way.
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u/1ustfu1 Jun 12 '25
they said clever, not creative. you can make the point that it’s an original way that’s never been seen but that isn’t necessarily an indicator of something being clever, i don’t think there’s anything wrong with pointing that out.
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u/sweetcinnamonpunch Jun 12 '25
It's for men and women and it's a funny sign. Calm down OP.
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u/BluePotatoSlayer Jun 12 '25
99% of this sub is people freaking out over the smallest things or light hearted jokes
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
That does seem to be increasingly true. So many commenters freaking out about how all the posts are unacceptable and accusing the posters of "freaking out."
The people just trying to laugh at pointlessly gendered stuff are getting drowned out. =(
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u/HotSituation8737 Jun 12 '25
I wouldn't say 99%, I've definitely seen some posts that made my eyes roll over, but generally speaking the posts seem to be on topic.
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u/BluePotatoSlayer Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
It’s literally anything that is gendered gets put in here. Some people here would borderline get worked up by a generic bathroom signs for male/female.
Or referencing one gender not all. They suddenly get worked up over something like “All Boys Would Know How This Feels or Something” meme acting like it suddenly means that females become oblivious… when it never implied that
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u/sweetcinnamonpunch Jun 12 '25
This post isn't on topic.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
There are two gendered signs on the door of a single unisex restroom. How could the gendering get any more pointless then that?
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u/sweetcinnamonpunch Jun 14 '25
Because the point of this is to signify that it's both for women and men in lieu of a unisex sign?
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u/GodeaterTheHalFeral Jun 12 '25
They probably did it just so they could use those signs. I would- those are fantastic.
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u/Nearby-Painting-7427 Jun 12 '25
Outside of "toilet shouldn't be gendered" and trans issue related to genitalia. I'd say it's about the less agravating gendered things. Urinal exist, and only penis peeps can use it. So it does make some sense - and it isn't the "aha, woman bad" or "blue for boy, pink for girl" crap at least
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u/kszaku94 Jun 12 '25
This is gendered, but not "pointlessly". I'd say this is clever and funny. OP needs to calm down.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
There are two gendered signs on a single door for a unisex restroom. That is as pointless as it gets. There is no evidence to suggest that OP is at all agitated.
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u/xpr95 Jun 15 '25
until this morning I thought I was a cis guy, but because my urethra points almost 90° directly downward as depicted here, it must mean I'm actually a woman
I guess you really do learn something new each day!
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u/Robinho311 Jun 12 '25
Pissing standing up in a unisex bathroom is massive douchebag behavior.
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u/maybebaebea Jun 12 '25
How? Because not every guy gets piss on the floor
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u/Robinho311 Jun 12 '25
There's always gonna be droplets all over the toilet, floor, wall etc.
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u/maybebaebea Jun 12 '25
No. Just no
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u/Robinho311 Jun 12 '25
I don't know what to tell you. It's pretty obviously a fact.
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u/ManusCornu Jun 12 '25
I think it's based because it was on a single stall restroom. However I don't like the binary gendered part of it
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u/SevereSimple8010 Jun 12 '25
The most miserable sub on Reddit strikes again.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
Yeah, all the weird commenters criticizing every post for daring to exist are getting tiring. Where do y'all come from?
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u/1ustfu1 Jun 12 '25
they both look like dicks at first glance which is one of the thousand reasons why the design is terrible (you know the other 999)
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u/Content_Conclusion31 Jun 12 '25
wait how's that gendered? its just about anatomy edit: oh wait nvm i see
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u/Substantial_Pace_142 Jun 13 '25
All of you triggered in the comments are fucking pissy because this has gotta be one of the funniest bathroom signs ive ever seen
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u/BlooperHero Jun 14 '25
A) Y'all are the ones who are upset.
2) I don't especially need bathroom signs to be funny. I need them to tell me where the bathroom is, and I really don't need it to be a puzzle.
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u/Substantial_Pace_142 Jun 14 '25
1) what?
2) it literally fucking says men and women on the signs
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