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Navy's New Gender-Neutral Carriers Won't Have Urinals
A couple decades after the U.S. Navy started deploying women on its ships, the restroom designs of the newest aircraft carriers are reflecting the females' presence.
The new Gerald R. Ford class of carriers - starting with the namesake carrier due in late 2015 - will not have urinals, the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington said this week.
The decision is part of an effort to give the new carriers a more gender-neutral layout, according to the Navy Times, which first reported the story. Using only toilets, a first for U.S. carriers, will allow ship personnel to easily switch the designation of any restroom – or head, in naval parlance – from men to women and vice versa as needed,
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, Jul 11 2012 03:20 PM
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:23 PM
I'll defer to Quilter's opinion on this.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:29 PM
Oh good God. Are we putting Tampon dispensers in every restroom?
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:32 PM
This is stupid. Women can do anything men can do.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:32 PM
What does this have to do with TCU sports again?
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:33 PM
Why would they need urinals on an ship anyways?
Just pee over the side.
Just pee over the side.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:35 PM
What does this have to do with TCU sports again?
Our sports teams, such as the football team. occasionally compete against Navy. Also, if TCU took this approach, its locker rooms and other facilities could be gender-neutral, which most likely would save the athletic department a few bucks.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:39 PM
I just hope the new stadium has a trough urinal like the old one.
All through the winter of '43, we had translators working in joke-proof conditions to try and produce a German version of the joke. They worked on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent several weeks in hospital. But a part from that, things went pretty quickly, and we soon had the joke by January in a form which our troops couldn't understand, but which the Germans could.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:42 PM
In keeping with Turk's Irish poet theme, I have a modest proposal for those male sailors who fear this policy might make it harder for them to find adequate facilities on board:
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."
"We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
"We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:49 PM
If only there was a design for both...*stops by truckstop*...oh yeah
Oh well, I am sure none of the men will piss on the seat in protest.
Oh well, I am sure none of the men will piss on the seat in protest.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:56 PM
Why can't the lady sailors just stand up?
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:03 PM
The best thing Sailors are glad about is they don't have to get dressed when they wake up in the middle of the night to pee. Most use water bottles to pee in to avoid hassel of having to get dressed. However, females still flush their damn tampons down the toilet and clog the pipes and then the head is secured. If you have to pee, you have to go find a toilet on the other end of the ship
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:14 PM
Don't they have sinks?The best thing Sailors are glad about is they don't have to get dressed when they wake up in the middle of the night to pee. Most use water bottles to pee in to avoid hassel of having to get dressed. However, females still flush their damn tampons down the toilet and clog the pipes and then the head is secured. If you have to pee, you have to go find a toilet on the other end of the ship
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:18 PM
Don't they have sinks?
That would get you a beating and "accidently" thrown off the side.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:18 PM
I just hope the new stadium has a trough urinal like the old one.
The trough urinal was fine, but when things got really crowded, you sometimes bumped heads.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:24 PM
Boy, for the first time in my life, I'm glad I was in the Army back in the day. I never had these worries.That would get you a beating and "accidently" thrown off the side.
"Man overboard, man overboard"
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:30 PM
Boy, for the first time in my life, I'm glad I was in the Army back in the day. I never had these worries.
Yeah, you didn't have to share 8 sinks, toilets, urinals with 200 people
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:38 PM
US navy getting so damned PC, now they can longer fire "broadsides"!
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:50 PM
US navy getting so damned PC, now they can longer fire "broadsides"!
It totally is. I'm waiting for the mandatory sensativity training that will probably be coming soon. Time to retire
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:51 PM
I'll defer to Quilter's opinion on this.
OMG, I'm crying from laughing! When I was in OCS we just put potted plants in the urinals in our head. Kinda festive! I was one of the first women assigned to a carrier and I don't even remember the urinals in our designated head - it just didn't matter. It would seem to me that they could have designated female heads in the design of the new carrier and left the urinals out of those particular ones. If they had to shift usage, then the personnel would adapt. Really not a big deal.
But thanks for the laugh - I needed it!
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