Ain't alone in those insecurities, and I feel they'll continue. I do think this problem will grow over time particularly with people who are ACTUALLY homophobic. People have instinctual thoughts which their intelligence can chuck aside. Some people don't have the intelligence to do so. In fact I would go so far as to say a lot of out gay men use the stalls in public rooms if the urinals aren't walled just to AVOID the accusations of glancing. Last thing you need is some homophobe causing a scene because of his paranoia of that queer looking over at his junk. So with the combination of gays protecting their own ass and insecure straight you're going to see more and more men rooms become a line heavy as the lady's... maybe even worse since the space is being taken up by abandoned urinals.
In the meanwhile, if there is a case of shy bladder occurring, and it's causing a backup then maybe people need to be thinking about architecture instead of trying to fix people. Good walls make good neighbors.
But I guess if you want to try and fix people, well you can design bathroom with that in mind too: Here's the final exam.
Ain't alone in those insecurities, and I feel they'll continue. I do think this problem will grow over time particularly with people who are ACTUALLY homophobic. People have instinctual thoughts which their intelligence can chuck aside. Some people don't have the intelligence to do so. In fact I would go so far as to say a lot of out gay men use the stalls in public rooms if the urinals aren't walled just to AVOID the accusations of glancing. Last thing you need is some homophobe causing a scene because of his paranoia of that queer looking over at his junk. So with the combination of gays protecting their own ass and insecure straight you're going to see more and more men rooms become a line heavy as the lady's... maybe even worse since the space is being taken up by abandoned urinals.
In the meanwhile, if there is a case of shy bladder occurring, and it's causing a backup then maybe people need to be thinking about architecture instead of trying to fix people. Good walls make good neighbors.
But I guess if you want to try and fix people, well you can design bathroom with that in mind too: Here's the final exam.