Posted on 10/02/2019 1:54:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
The city of Portland apparently has a gender problem with bathrooms.
According to KGW-TV, the city decided when they remodeled the Portland Building that urinals would be banned. Last February Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart emailed employees:
We will continue to have gender-specific (male and female) multi-stall restrooms that are readily available to any employee that prefers to use one. But, there will be no urinals in any restroom in the building. This will give us the flexibility we need for any future changes in signage … I am convinced that this is the right way to ensure success as your employer, remove arbitrary barriers in our community, and provide leadership that is reflective of our shared values.
Radio talk show host Lars Larson told KGW, “I think it’s ridiculous. First of all, I know that it already makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Secondly, its gonna take up a lot more space and third, anyone who’s ever been to any public event — have you seen the line at the ladies room? Do you see any line at the men’s room?” Larson pointed out that urinals use far less water than toilets.
KGW reported, “The building’s 1st, 3rd and 15th floors will have large multi-stall bathrooms that men and women will use together. Other floors will have separate men’s and women’s bathrooms. But every floor will have at least one any gender bathroom. Overall there will be 42 ‘all-user stalls’ as the city calls them and 104 gender specific stalls.”
Over in Paris, France, there’s an entirely different perspective on urinals. The Daily Wire reported in April 2018 that Parisians were upset with their city government because it installed completely exposed urinals around the city. CNN noted that nearby signs pointed out the presence of the urinals. The urinals have floral displays on top of them that contain straw that can be changed into compost for use in parks and gardens.
The city offered a statement regarding the urinals in which it said:
The interest of this new urban furniture lies in its mobility, ease of installation and use, as well as in its ecological dimension. … The uritrottoir, an intelligent pissotiere, makes it possible to compost and grow flowers. Unlike a classic urinal type “shells,” urine is valued through a first filtering with straw, limiting unpleasant odors. Straw and urine are then collected and composted, allowing the recovery of naturally occurring nitrogen and phosphate in large amounts in the urine. Ultimately, this device allows the urine to return to fertilize the plants.
The designer of the “Uritrottoir” claimed the urinal was an “eco solution to public peeing.” Local mayor Ariel Weil argued, “If we don’t do anything, then men are just going to pee in the streets. If it is really bothering people, we will find another location.”
Gwendoline Coipeault of the French feminist group Femmes Solidaires offered the feminist perspective: “They have been installed on a sexist proposition: men cannot control themselves (from the bladder point of view) and so all of society has to adapt. The public space must be transformed to cause them minimum discomfort. It’s absurd, no one needs to urinate in the street.”
Inquiring Minds want to know what she is doing with her hands
No clothing needs adjusting.
Seems like the natural stance would be hands on hips.
Wow. I had that poster hung on my wall as a teenager in the 70’s. I think I bought it at Spencer Gifts.
Amazing how a lady can enter the gent’s room and use the facilities … and she doesn’t get raped, or groped, or molested, or even subjected to excessively vulgar language …
If men were the horrible misogynistic beasts the leftist and feminazis portray, it wouldn’t be so.
I know some people who do.
most people in their home don’t have lots of strangers of various cleanliness using their bathroom.
Miniskirt and panties need to be moved out of the way. I admit, the second part assumes facts not in evidence.
Forget “First World problems,” let’s discuss “deep-blue urban problems.”
One justification of this is that men with vaginas would be challenged to use a urinal. It’s 2019, people. Let’s get with the program! /s
Piss all over the seat. Let the liberal freaks deal with it. Actually, they probably enjoy sitting in urine.
I recommend leaving the seat down. Or just use the sink.
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Or just go in the corner.
Leave paper, if used, on the floor.
That’s how I find things in some fast food resturants (after use by ‘peace loving immigrants’).
Guess men are suppose to use the sink!
Urinals are cispatriarchy!
In London last month, some restaurants had rows of mini restrooms, each with toilet and mini-sink. It definitely solved the problem of male and female customers in the same big restroom.
Also in London last month on Charing Cross Road very close to Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square, a four-sided men’s urinal was out in the open on a busy sidewalk. And I do mean out in the open! Couldn’t believe it.
Wait, isn’t NOT putting urinals in the ladies room discrimination then?
If you want to use a urinal go pee in the sink.
Also in London last month on Charing Cross Road very close to Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square, a four-sided men’s urinal was out in the open on a busy sidewalk. And I do mean out in the open! Couldn’t believe it.
“Leave the seat up in protest.”
Better yet pee on it and leave it down.
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It is just another case of "How stupid can we be?"
The beta males and metrosexuals along with the shemales and drag queens in probably sit when they pee anyway. The urinals won’t be missed.
Better yet, piss all over the seat in protest, which is what I’m sure will happen.
In third world countries and California, everybody just uses the street. Portland wants to be the same.
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