Massive side-eye for anyone referring to women/girls as "females"....
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"Men's bathrooms"
"Female toilets"
None of your business. If a toilet identifies as female, it's a female toilet, end of story.
For me it used to be a holdover from military service.
No idea why but everyone on base used "male/female" instead of men/women.
I can only think of a Ferengi from star trek whenever I hear "female" and when my spouse and I hear it I always look at them and do that hand thing where they tap their fingers together. 
No idea why but everyone on base used "male/female" instead of men/women.
Maybe to imply that there are no men or women (gender constructs) on base? As in there are soldiers with penises, and soldiers with vaginas, but they're all just soldiers. Idk, just a guess.
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Anyone who has actually had to clean public bathrooms knows that mens restrooms are usually cleaner than women's.
That said, women's restrooms might have dispensers for hygiene products that occasionally get restocked. Not often enough to be reliable but often enough to give you hope.
It depends on the location, which might be a statement on clientele and traffic in a given bathroom.
When I worked at a bar, the men's room was worse but when I worked retail the women's room was worse.
It's volume more than a gender.
I dunno. My own anecdotal observations are that I've used both and the women's has been cleaner most of the time.
In one of my regular dive bars, the ladies’ toilets were so filthy on a regular basis that all the women ended up using the men’s toilets.
Used to clean the bathrooms in a restaurant, 9/10 times the men's bathroom is cleaner. Guys go in and pee at a urinal at public restrooms and then leave, there is very little opportunity for them to mess shit up.
not just public toilets either, i had an office job where they held monthly team meetings and every time it got to any other business someone would declare the women's to be a 'total disgrace' or similar description
It's either that, or someone goes in there to commit some emergency gastroenterology. Like, I could see "gotta go so bad you start shitting before you're seated and get some on the floor. But...up the walls?
women will literally spin on their head projectile shitting in all directions
Never seen that, but I have seen what I would say was a woman who had to have had explosive diarrhea, who then simply touched her toes in the bathroom, thus spraying it everywhere behind herself.
Outlined the toilet and everything!
JFC!
I was a cleaner years ago. Bar bathrooms are... interesting. I have cleaned shit from the urinals in mens bathroom. Also I have cleaned womens bathrooms where a big beer glass was stuffed with toiletpaper, then the whole thing stuck into the toilet bowl, and then someone shit on top of it... Both genders public bathrooms are nasty.
I actually started refusing to clean the women's bathroom when I worked retail. It was always nasty as fuck when I had to deal with it.
The proverbial straw was when I went in and found a red Picasso on the white tile wall, and you know those little mailboxes with bags in them so women can dispose of their sanitary products and not have to flush them or hold them untik they get to the trash can? At least 10 total products from tampons to pads were stacked on top of the little mailbox, and the handicap stall had an avalanche. The trash can was also overflowing so either we had a lot more women using the bathroom than normal, or nobody had emptied the trash the night before.
Part of my job in my college cafeteria was cleaning the employee bathrooms. The women's bathroom was always the worst, by far.
I was a manager for D&B. We had a dedicated woman's lavatory sanitizer for busy weekends. I have never ever needed a men's equivalent.
I couldnt tell you how many bathrooms Ive cleaned across various jobs, at literally every level of economic strata in modern society, and the women’s bathrooms were nastier than the men’s at least 95% of the time.
There was often more pee on women’s toilet seats than on the ones in the men’s room. Men’s rooms usually have urinals taking most of the piss. There is a large contingent of women that apparently hover over the toilet and let fly. Although I guess logically if they think everyone else pisses like a broken fire hydrant then I can see why they wouldnt want to sit on the seat
I've seen used pads stuck to the wall. People are nasty.
"Happy little accident"
"I, a man, publicly say here that I am one most dirty and unmannered being who will use public restrooms and leave them in such an awful state that I'll never make my daughter use them."
This man.
Bob always told me that the horrible things he did with tampons were just between me and him. :/
Between Bob Ross with a tampon and Jackson Poo-llock, I do not miss 3rd shift janitorial.
Putty knife, strong emesis control, and the will to endure are needed. Drugs helped too.
I like that "I am his dad" is enough to justify making tradeoffs in their name, and that the tradeoff goes "have allegedly cleaner bathrooms at the cost of being sad for the rest of your life."
Many moons ago I worked for Office Depot. We were all on a rotation for cleaning the bathrooms because apparently that corporation doesn't have the money for a janitorial service.
I can confirm the men's and women's bathrooms could get equally toxic.
Let’s just add some menstrual hwite
Please, please, please! As a person born in the US, treat public spaces with respect. Just because you don’t have to clean it, doesn’t mean you have to destroy it.
reading all this stuff makes me wonder if gender-neutral bathrooms are just inherently more respected by everyone
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