Gender-Conscious Portland Bans Something From Men’s Bathrooms In City Building [Guess]

www.dailywire.com ^ | 10/02/2019 | By Hank Berrien

[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.”

[Trumpnado2016]

Leave the seat up in protest.

[NorthMountain]

Portland: City of Sitzpinklers.

[MeganC]

Men will just piss on the seats like they always do.

Good.

[morphing libertarian]

piss on the seats. That’s why we have urinals easy to keep the seats clean

[BBQToadRibs]

Fine. I’ll go pee on City Hall.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I recommend leaving the seat down. Or just use the sink.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is this the first step, towards eliminating men’s and ladies rooms? Everyone will just go in one room?

[NorthMountain]

And from further reading of the article, one might conclude that les hommes de Paris are more manly than the Soy-Boys of Portland.

[Red Badger]

Of course! You don’t have separate bathrooms in your house................

[dsrtsage]

“Leave the seat up in protest.”

I would prefer not to touch the seat at all and just leave it down

[Wuli]

Yes, of course, G-d forbid people admit the genitalia of males and females are different and can release urine most conveniently using different disposal units!!!

[bigbob]

I like the outdoor pissouire idea, just like going off the corner of the deck.

[Sans-Culotte]

I would prefer not to touch the seat at all and just leave it down

I always lift the lid on a public toilet with the toe of my shoe.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

We’re going backwards as a society...................

[BBQToadRibs]

“I always lift the lid on a public toilet with the toe of my shoe.
“

Ditto. I consider it to be black plague contaminated unless proven otherwise. And you’re not going to prove to me otherwise.

[Red Badger]

Probably more than you believe....................

[jonascord]

I go up to the VA in Portland. Democrat traffic control is meant to drive people onto public transportation. Thus, it's simply less frustrating to take the Trimet and bus to the VA on Pill Hill.

I'll make a point of stopping at city hall and pissing on the toilet seats. It's still better than Red Ted's policy of pissing on the streets...

[asinclair]

There is another response for men: go to Amazon and purchase a Mail Urinal With Oder Shield. Much less bathroom real estate used in the john while you are peeing, and you only need a stall long enough to dump the liquid. This is not a single-use product, you can use it for as long as you want. I usually replace 'em once a year. (My doctors want me to monitor my urine output, which is why I'm comfortable using one.)