• lime!@feddit.nu
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      7 days ago

      to anyone. they’re unhygienic, they waste water, they are not privacy-friendly, they require much more cleaning… i’ve been in unisex bathrooms with urinals and it’s just awful for everyone involved.

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        7 days ago

        Sure, they’re relatively unhygienic but you aren’t actually touching anything yourself. Not to mention men standing while pissing in stalls is… just as bad. You have to flush with normal toilets too so I don’t really see how they waste more water. Plenty of people don’t really care thaaat much about privacy when at a urinal (beyond a privacy screen) and those that do can still enjoy the gender neutral stalls.

        The benefit comes from throughput. You can put way more urinals in the same amount of space as a couple stalls would use. And if the men go to the urinals to piss then that frees up more gender neutral stalls for everyone else. It’s just better to have urinals than not to have them at almost any public facility unless you only have room for a single stall or two.

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          6 days ago

          i’ve never been in a public bathroom that doesn’t have both in the same place. it’s awful and i wish they didn’t exist.

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            6 days ago

            I am incredibly grateful that urinals exist, public bathrooms (and the queues for them) would be much worse without them.