Speech On Public Washrooms

It is a known fact that both men and women use the restroom. What many are not aware of, is that using the toilet in public areas reinforces the differences between male and female. For instance, the very first thing any individual sees when entering a public restroom is the little dolls of a man or a woman as an indication of a female restrooms and or the male restrooms. This simple sign reaffirms the sexual differences of gender and also unconsciously the individual’s identity for that matter. The concept of gender neutral bathrooms is to break the imaginary wall of gender separation thus allowing either sex to use one single restroom. If we think about it, in our home we share one restroom, and are pretty much accepting of the fact that we all use the toilet. The book states that gender salience is the relation of gender across activities and spaces. The book further discusses that when teachers would place children alphabetically versus by gender the importance of gender reduced. Gender is a persistent element in any school. The concept is simple when it boils down to education the main purpose is to place the students together by groups of the ones that are getting the material and are able to proceed to the next or placing them in a group of students that need more time grasping the given material and curriculum. Although gender salience is like a roller coaster in different parts of the elementary school experience the flow of gender is a persistent element in education. Gendered bathrooms, as previously discussed reinforces the differences between male and female. Back in the Victorian era, they created restrooms for women with a special room that had a resting area before entering the section in which the restrooms were located. This was primary because back then it was not lady like to dispose bodily fluids. They believe that women should keep such matters private, and it was pretty much unheard of for women to even use the restrooms the way it is indented. Till this day many women restrooms still have a resting area before entering the restroom section. Bathrooms are designed with an assumption that everyone is heterosexual. Thus not allowing the possibility of that many individuals don’t

In this week reading, “Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries”, by Simone Chess, Alison Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson they expressed three main points throughout the article. The first main point in this article is that “ bathrooms are easier to access for some of us than for others.” This is an issue that some people don’t know about or don’t even think is a problem. Recently this has been a hotbed topic, within the media but I have been aware of this problem for sometime now. Many of my close friends have expressed their concerns about the bathroom situation well before this became a newsworthy topic. In addition, this topic has always bothered me because it is a bathroom and people mostly use the bathroom for two purposes.

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#2. Using a Port-O-John is a tragic experience for the majority of humanity. Whenever I have to use one I wait in line sometimes for ages trying my best to be patient. Then after waiting for what seemed like forever I open the door and are hit with a waft of an indescribable. After my long wait it’s quite depressing to find out the middle aged man ahead of you filled the Porta potty with his own personal scent. It’s even worse at state fairs or amusement parks when you’re forced to use the restrooms. I honestly can’t wrap my head around how someone ever thought Port-O-Potties were an excellent invention. Maybe they didn’t think through the process of their idea. The fact that a pile of strangers waste sits in the same plastic box as you well

The idea of respect towards another’s dwelling place also still stands true, but it should be noted that, most cultures, especially Americans, are not as respectful as they were forty years ago. Morris explains that when entering the home of another a person “senses that he must ask permission to do simple things that he would consider a right elsewhere” (p.127). In the past, it was considered rude to call someone before 10am, but today it is possible to send a text message at 3am with no regard for the time or respect for the person being contacted, but merely out of convenience for oneself. People are losing their ability to engage with one another and live in the present.The concept of convenience illustrated by fast food chains as well as immediate access to information on any topic or question has morphed this society into a mass of rude, impatient people who expect immediate results. As a result of that, when entering another’s home people are much more likely to grab a glass while asking for water or assume it is their right to have a glass of water in the first place than they would have been in

I truly believe many people in America lack common courtesy. Not everybody, but also not just Americans. This applies to Hispanics, Asians, and any other race, because courtesy has no color, nor shape, no language, or religion. In my opinion, courtesy is taught within the home and at a young age. You learn from how your elders speak and act. Lately it feels so hard to get a please or a thank you, and even a smile back from someone you smile to in a hallway at school. I’m not sure if it's people being shy or just flat out rude.

The quote above by Benjamin Franklin illustrates that everyone has a different opinion when it comes to manners. P. M. Forni defines manners in an interesting way in his article, “What is Civility”. In this article, Forni states “A manner is a way something is done, a mode of handling. Thus manners came to refer to behavior in social interaction – the way we handle the encounter between Self and Other” (Forni 543). Most people get taught manners from a very young age but for some reason people do not apply these manners to the road.

The Lou, thunderbox, porcelain throne, and John are a few words used to describe the toilet. In America, people take the toilet for granted…I mean they literally crap on it. Over half of the world’s population lives in undeveloped countries without access to basic amenities necessary for daily life. Most Americans don’t think about where anybody else goes to answer nature’s call. Why is that? Is it because it’s gross? Uncomfortable? Or irrelevant? I feel the answer is a combination of all these factors. Americans don’t think about the right to a toilet because they have not been educated on the relevancy of matter. People find the subject taboo because defecation is such personal bodily function. India is a prime example of this toilet phenomena

The social norms theory, may help to identify barriers and design new approaches to changing open defecation into an appropriate use of sanitation as a new social norm.

In her article What’s the Poop on Ancient Toilets and Toilet Habits?, Jodi Magness main purpose is to demonstrate to the reader the differences between ancient and modern civilizations’ attitudes toward what is socially acceptable involving toilet habits. Magness then gives examples of public latrines in the ancient world and unsanitary they would seem to modern man.

Imagine sitting in a restaurant with your friends when you feel the sudden urge to relieve some pressure from your bladder. Would you just get up and randomly enter whichever restroom you wanted if there were separate restrooms for males and females? The majority of the people in our society wouldn’t. The majority of the people in our society would determine which restroom is designated to their sex and enter. Regardless of how long the line is for the restroom, one sex would usually refuse to utilize the empty restroom of the opposite sex. This is one of the norms of society. The reason why there are separate restrooms for sex is because each sex has been socialized to use the restroom differently from each other. This protects the privacy of both sexes and keeps the social structure in order. For my norm breaching assignment, I have chosen to deviate from this norm and use the women’s restroom.

Can we have sanitary public restrooms? The public restrooms in the United States are very unsanitary and do not have enough privacy for many people. In Japan, the restrooms are very sanitary and have privacy for others, they are very respectful for keeping their restrooms very clean and dislike the United States restrooms because some people litter the floor, do not wash their hands or flush when done, do not have privacy, and graffiti in them. Many people agree that Japan has one of the most sanitary and technology advanced restrooms. We should put new sanitary restrooms in public restrooms or help keep them sanitary and keep people from getting sick. The U.S should make or put new stalls

This paper started as a way to talk about my ethical qualms with the toilet and see if there was a scientific basis to back them up. More than a history or philosophy of how the modern toilet came to be, I wanted to see if there is scientific evidence to back up my idea of toilets and the modern sewage treatment systems as wasteful. In order to understand the wastefulness, or efficiency, of the toilet however, I had to answer the question, “what happens when we flush?” This may not be the most interesting or sexiest information about waste, but it is an important look into a part of the waste stream we contribute to daily, in fact,

“A few minutes before 8 am, all of a sudden, the floor of the toilet collapsed, plunging Tikedar, Soni, and Ansari into the septic tank 15-feet below.”

However, where Homo sapiens differ from other mammals, is that human public toilets are designed primarily for sanitation purposes. As described by the United Nations, “World Toilet Day, on 19 November, is about taking action to reach the 2.4 billion people living without a toilet,” (UN 2016). The United Nations then further express how sanitation is a global development priority, and how sanitation, or lack of, can impact the livelihood of people (UN 2016).