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[–]lefterfield 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What do those women tell women who do have a problem with it?

[–]LasagnaRossa 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Exactly. I'm one of those women who don't mind, but if the majority has a problem with it, I would support them.

[–]BEB 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In the US, you can see inside bathrooms stalls.

The US Equality Act allows ANY man to access women's bathrooms, so ANY man can watch you pee, change your tampon, wipe yourself.

And ANY man can steal your used sanitary products, as some TiMs do to gratify their fetish.

So NO. That's it. NO.

[–]LasagnaRossa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ooohhh I forgot that bathroom stalls are different in the United States! Here (Italy) everything is locked, there's no reason to be afraid. In fact my university had genderless bathrooms and we never had a problem with it.

Btw why are American stalls so see-through? What were they trying to accomplish?

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US stalls aren't exactly see-through: they do not go from floor to ceiling, but only a very tall woman with heels on might be able to look over the walls.

You can look under the door, if you put your head almost to the floor, but women don't do that to other women.

US bathrooms also have cracks between the door and the front walls where the hinges and the lock are, and, while you can't get a perfect view of the inside unless you put your eye to the crack, you can kind of see what the person inside is doing.

I don't think that whoever designed US bathrooms ever came close to imagining that one day men would demand access to women's bathrooms under the guise that biological sex doesn't exist, so the designers probably thought they'd given women enough privacy.

I actually am less frightened in US bathrooms when they are actually sex-segregated than in the group cubicle bathrooms, because a man could push you in the cubicle and assault you with no one knowing, whereas in US bathrooms, other women who entered the main area would be able to see and help you.