I thought this was a re-boing, but no, Petco has dealt with these batshits before
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I feel sorry for the dog; it looks like the gentleman is dragging it around by the leash pretty hard.
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Happy Petco customer over here. Looks like i’ll need to let them know how much i appreciate their stance on this the next time i’m in the store.
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I’d love if retail companies installed “call police” buttons at every register (and at price-checking stations around the store) so they can shortcut to “Police are on their way, sir, please exit the building” on these snowflakian assholes.
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Those are almost certainly the only three words of the constitution he is remotely familiar with.
Also: the whole thing reads “We the people are pissed off.”
Is there a word for nominative determinism for t-shirts?
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For about 15 years, the one restroom in our favorite after-school haunt – McSorley’s Old Ale House – was functionally unisex … which made it as gender-neutral as one could get back then. The last time I visited the place was in the early 80s and meeting up with school friends, and it was nothing for guys to use the urinals while the gals simultaneously used the stalls and, when they had to, stand outside the stalls waiting their turn and with some blandly watching the action at the urinals. A bad situation since that was McSorley’s way of protesting having to finally admitting women into their establishment.
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I’m retconning that these unisex bathroom facilities have the moon on the door as a sign of worship of a bigendered pagan deity.
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TIL that it is possible that the ubiquitous image of the moon on the outhouse door may have been due to to a transition towards gender-neutral bathrooms:
The most commonly held theory, and the one you are most likely to find via a cursory Google search, posits that it was once the sign for a woman’s toilet. As the story goes, in the 1800s and earlier, literacy wasn’t widespread, so the common symbol used to differentiate between a men’s privy and a women’s was that the men’s door carried a sun or star symbol, while the women’s stalls were marked with a moon.
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Bollinger’s book goes on to suggest that men’s outhouses were not as well kept up, so eventually, to conserve resources and labor, male stalls were taken down, and the remaining moon-doored stalls became a symbol of unisex bathrooms, and outhouses in general.
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Yep. Petco is not running some edgy Ally McBeal situation.
What’s hilarious about this rant is that many many bathrooms in the world have always been gender neutral. Portapotties at outdoor events, small restaurants with only bathroom, gas stations, convenience stores, places with only one public restroom, campgrounds, hiking trails, SRO tenements, hostels, hotels, etc.
Nobody cared about any of that before. Suddenly it’s a national crisis.
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There’s a burger joint, BRGR, in Kansas City that’s always had a unisex bathroom. The sink/washing area is common for everyone, and then there are individual stalls with doors that extend all the way to the floor, and no urinals. I think half of them are labelled for women, and half for men, but no one has ever paid much attention to that. You just go into an empty stall, lock the door, do your thing, and come out and wash your hands. You know. Like almost everyone does in every public restroom everywhere.
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Except you, asshole
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Best thing about gender-neutral bathrooms is they usually have a changing table. Something tells me this dude never changed a diaper in public in his life.
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Airplanes?
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I understand the reference, but no way! Do not fan that flame!
It’s obviously not on the employees, they shouldn’t have to deal with this shit, period, but if he gets any follow up interviews from this I certainly hope he will be asked, “were the bathroom facilities lacking something that you needed? Were there Accessibility issues you want to see addressed? No? It’s just about the sign? Well, out of curiosity, do you cohabitate with a woman? And do you need separate facilities?”
Fucker.
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Was working with architects recently on some building plans that I have a say in. All the public areas are getting single-occupancy universal washrooms. No more stalls or pisstroughs, just a private room for anyone to fart in.
We were going back and forth on fixtures, and I said that each one should have a toilet, a urinal, and a sink. One of the other folks in the meeting kept giving me bizarre looks before eventually blurting out angrily that “men shouldn’t be peeing beside anyone else in a single-occupancy washroom!”
A good 5-10 seconds of awkward silence followed, before he quietly said “oh, wait, I get it now.”
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I have asked at any establishments that have single user toilets why they have gendered signs and a depressing number have said that it was required by local laws.
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Yeah, but men should just be sitting down to pee already. It’s cleaner; even if you are getting the stream fully inside the bowl, there is always back spray. And you don’t have to aim!
It’s worse with urinals, even more spray and there’s always a wet or sticky patch of floor below where drips land.
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All I got to say is the guy should avoid Sweden.
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Back in the day a restaurant in Santa Cruz had two bathrooms, which they made gender neutral, albeit with signs: “US” and “THEM”.
Your choice.
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