Comments on: Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets

By: Bathroom Talk « That Girl, Fae

Bathroom Talk « That Girl, Fae — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:53:36 +0000

[...] by depicting the male figure simply, and the female as some kind of elaboration on the male figure. Read the rest here. Rate this: Share this:Share on TumblrLike this:LikeBe the first to like this [...]

By: Poly in Pictures - 132. Mistaken

Poly in Pictures - 132. Mistaken — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:01:55 +0000

[...] I have some links for you. This post about the symbols people choose to put on their toilet doors, and this awesome crowd-sourced map of gender-neutral toilets. (Go [...]

By: Alphabet

Alphabet — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Flamme/See? *streeeeetching*

By: Alphabet

Alphabet — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:57:00 +0000

My worst experience has been at a kink club:

(on a sign with a blue, male-sign background):
STANDERS
MEN
DOMS
MALE TOPS
ANYONE WHO FORGETS TO PUT THE SEAT DOWN!
(NO SMOKING IN HERE YOUR FARTS WILL CATCH FIRE)(on a sign with a pink, female-sign background):
SITTERS
FEMALES
WOMEN
TV’S/TS
ANYONE WHO CAN REMEMBER TO PUT THE SEAT DOWN!
(NO SMOKING IN HERE THEIR FARTS WILL CATCH FIRE)I leave unpicking the assumptions about dominance, trans gender identities, bodies, performance, transitioning-is-a-kink-right etc. etc. etc. as an exercise to the reader. Note that these toilets were identical in every way shape and form. (In the end the owner, having long spouted over how great it was to see a gay [errr] couple coming, how much she wants the lgbt community to be a part of broader kink events, fobbed me off with patronising bullshit, the event organiser promised to put a sign saying ‘toilets’ over the club signs).

(As relabelling exercises on existing toilets, “urinals|stalls” “stalls” remains my favourite. Let’s play “what is actually the difference here”. Although frequently women’s toilets are also just plain nicer than men’s toilets, which is odd.)

By: person

person — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:16:00 +0000

I encountered a public bathroom in Las Vegas which was a circular room with bathroom stalls all around and a circular sink in the middle. It was the only restroom so everyone used it, regardless of sex or gender. There was also an attendant who kept track of which stalls were occupied (they obviously also had locks) which I suppose could help prevent any sort of misbehavior.

By: Serenada

Serenada — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:37:00 +0000

I had a male-appearing female cousin get called out in the women’s bathroom. “But she looks like a man!” defended the accuser when my aunt challenged her challenge. “You look like a monkey and we still let you in here,” said my cousin’s mother.

By: Santoshsharma906

Santoshsharma906 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:43:00 +0000

mast hai yaar

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Actually, race and ethnicity also play a role. Middle-aged women from Mediterranean countries grow plenty of facial hair, while many Asian and Native American men have difficulty growing facial hair at all. So it’s not a very good marker of biological sex, much less gender.

By: » Design Issues Flash Mob Study

» Design Issues Flash Mob Study — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:13:16 +0000

[...] classmate found this fantastic blog posting with illustrations of male/female symbols around the [...]

By: Jessa Goerling

Jessa Goerling — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:21:00 +0000

Uh, generally women *can’t* grow beards. Unless they’ve got an excess of androgen (or if they’re pre-estrogen transwomen), the coarse hairs that would make up a beard simply don’t grow on their faces.

By: youphoria

youphoria — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:39:00 +0000

Actually, the German words for fire and water are both neuter nouns. So we still have no idea what’s going on here…

By: Mombian » Blog Archive » What Bathroom Signs Tell Us About Sex and Gender

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:16:42 +0000

[...] can bathroom signs tell us about gender, sex, and society? Plenty, according to this great article by Marissa at The Society Pages, a multidisciplinary social science project organized by the [...]

By: Link roundup – October 18, 2011

Link roundup – October 18, 2011 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:56:55 +0000

[...] Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets » Sociological Images- Sex, gender and toilets. Some of these signs are laughable, some are just sad http://t.co/yqHwzv2Y (via @filip) [...]

By: Kelly Crandall

Kelly Crandall — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:44:00 +0000

what if you had a sign on each door: one that said, “If you don’t care about privacy, pee here!” and another that said, “If you want privacy, pee here!”

And then the “non-private” bathroom would still have stalls and all the functional fixtures of a bathroom, but maybe more of them. The private bathroom would just be one private room with fixtures. Anyone could choose whichever room they wanted.

Should we also include holes in the floor for those people visiting from different countries and cultures?

Would that solve the problem?

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:53:00 +0000

Nice article, alot of people mentioned the long line by the ladies restrooms.. we can slove that by separating those who are waiting to fix their makeup with those who need to use restrooms. Makeup ladies can go to lounge area that can be set up next door. Thats what I noticed going to restaurants and night clubs in Houston.
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