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Posted on 11/09/2025 9:03:45 AM PST by DallasBiff
All politics is local, the saying goes. The same applies to washrooms. When you need to go, all that really matters is the state of the nearest washroom. And in southwestern Ontario’s Waterloo Region, where I live, something very peculiar is happening to the local washrooms. Case in point is Kitchener’s Centre in the Square, the area’s premier soft-seat performance venue that hosts a wide range of popular musicians and other acts.
Prior to renovations in 2023, the 2,000-seat facility had eight washrooms serving patrons on the auditorium’s main and balcony levels – four men’s and four women’s. Following a $2.4 million project primarily funded by federal and provincial grants, however, Centre in the Square took on an entirely different look. Now there are five unisex washrooms, two men’s rooms and a single women’s room spread across the two floors.
On the main floor where the bulk of the audience sits, the entire right side of the house is served by two large unisex washrooms. Here men and women must line up together to access a series of individual stalls that each contain a toilet, paper dispenser and garbage can. Everyone then shares a common bank of sinks and mirrors. This new arrangement, which upends centuries of sex-separated bathrooms, brings with it plenty of double-takes, puzzled looks and awkward moments. (Including when I took my 89-year-old mother to the Nutcracker.) But it is by no means unique.
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Five unisex, two men, and one women’s? Who came up with that combination and how did they arrive at that?
It's subtle.
But it used to be that your favorite Italian restaurant used to have two designated restrooms, one for women and the other one for men. Now they've renovated the restrooms so they're both unisex.
Why? It's all about the big picture.
There will always be the wall in the alley.
Women should love to see a urinal in a unisex bathroom. It means there is a 99% reduced likelihood of pee on the seat.
If men and women are the same as the left tells us, the women can use the urinals too.
Nobody says I have to lift up the seat. Sorry about those dribbles, ladies.
I’m personally against same sex bathrooms unless mirrors are removed. A woman and a mirror in a bathroom is a recipe for a strained bladder.
A 2-1 men-to-women’s ratio to assure that women always still have to stand in lines?
It is all about equal outcome. Men can finish their job faster so that isn’t fair. Was at a gas station with two large multi-purpose bathrooms, Long line for women, none for men. Women are never satisfied.
To accommodate the newly-added women, they initially designated the restrooms on alternating floors as "men's" or "women's". But this proved inconvenient (lots of uncomfortable racing up and down stairways late at night).
So the residents took a vote and declared all the restrooms open to both sexes. After an initial period of adjustment, everybody was cool with it. No abuse, no catcalling, no shame, no rape or other atrocities.
The first time I entered the open shower area armed only with a bar of soap and otherwise uncovered, there was a lovely young lady similarly unattired, enjoying her shower. She smiled and said "Hi" and gestured toward one of the other overhead showerheads. I took my shower, which was possibly one of the most distracted showers I ever had.
I was also extremely careful in washing a certain part of my body, lest it become overly indicative of my.... distraction.
After that, everything else was easy.
That happened at my favorite Italian restaurant. It’s a small place, and each restroom is single use.
Try the veal, it’s the best in the city.
If it's a tiny restaurant and there's only one restroom. Then yes, they're off the hook.
But if they have two restrooms then they're just trying to be woke.
^^ THIS ^^
One of our local groovy liberal restaurants changed to unisex bathrooms, but took out the urinal in what had been the men's room. Why? Got me, I think the rationale was that urinals are smelly and the grossed the women out.
So instead, now they have pee on the seats. If I were a woman I'd rather deal with a smelly urinal a few feet away, rather than some guy's stale pee on my toilet seat.
Q: How stupid can you be? A: "Liberal stupid".
At JBLM there is a facility there that when it was built, was designed by the army to exercise their horses and be observed by the men of the military with balcony seats. I say men because at the time the building was built, there were no women in the business.
Times change and women were added to the roster of military troops in the army and the building was converted to a joint used building by then both sexes and half the bathrooms were shifted to women’s. But because there were not a lot of women in the troops, they didn’t consider remodeling the women’s rooms so they never removed the urinals due to wasted expense. They did add some commodes.
Time changed again and the army didn’t use horses very much so the building was converted to a gymnasium for conditioning and both sexes had a locker room and bathroom now named Jensen Fitness Center. Unfortunately, when that happened the historical society determined the building to be an historical site. That means it cannot be upgraded or changed. While I was assigned there we had substandard wiring melt many times and had to shut the area around the burnt wires down for replacement to look just like the old ones. And few changes could be made from the original wiring unless approved by the society.
So to this day, the women’s bathroom still contain urinals. They are plugged and covered with plastic seal for odor control, but they are still there. Another problem with this is the locks and doors. If they break and/or need replacing, the companies that made them went out of business decades ago. So they have to be made to order and cost is high on that to copy the old ones. And with the thousands of dollars of equipment and soldier’s personal effects stored there, they have to maintain security. There are nine exterior doors, doubles, and 40 exterior windows. And surprisingly there are still some window attachments from the old still working. Sometimes the historical organizations can be expensive.
Today the facility is a full service conditioning center filled with equipment and in the upstairs area mats, a running track, and other items for military needs. And in the pictures from the site I gave you, you can still see some of the old balcony seats that are over 90 years old. And they are kept clean and in repair for use.
https://jblm.armymwr.com/programs/jensen-fitness-center
wy69
People who force you to accept their ideology need to be thrown down the toilet
Bkmk
Bar I attend has separate toilet rooms but a common trough for washing hands in the hall leading to them. I do not like standing next to a woman after using the john while we wash our hands together. Weird
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