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Australia's Mona asked a court to reverse its ruling that allowed men inside a women's only space.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/oHT6U

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Modern locker rooms can be built with individual stalls so I understand the point being made. Personally though, it's less efficient to have a locker room with multiple single-serve rooms. Extra material, extra cost, decreased functional area, additional readying time. If you use a locker room frequently you know how invaluable all those things are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

These are the same excuses given for the enshittification of American bathroom stalls.

Fuck the companies - give the humans the privacy they like. Many locker rooms I've been in already have stalls, too - the shower stalls.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So my work did something like this when they moved buildings. Our old locker room was a long rectangular room with lockers on one side, a bench on the other. No privacy once you were in that space.

New one is mixed usage private change rooms and showers. It's a huge, huge, huge downgrade on the space. So, anecdotally, not on board. The old one still had bathroom stalls and private bathrooms if you needed it. I don't understand the push to make it all uniform when that's not the best use for the majority of the users. I'm not sorry about this opinion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Why do you think that space is a huge downgrade though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not when you only need one large area rather than 2. Building double the showers and a shared area should be more efficient than having 2 sets of half for each gender.

It also makes it easier for families, non binary or trans people.