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@maje9448
July 24, 2025 at 12:04 pm
Invert
@bigcountrymountainman9740
July 24, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Then where are all the women stepping up designing these bathrooms. Lol
@martydekkers
July 24, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Just don’t complain when they build you an outhouse 😂
@synth712
July 24, 2025 at 10:13 pm
true, ted talk start gone in wring direction
@Zarozian
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Nah it’s cause women take much longer even if there are more stalls while men are in and out of there like clockwork. 😂
@MarcoAntonioMuñozMartin-k7w
July 24, 2025 at 12:17 pm
😒°°Okay! And to the person who made this video, what do you propose? 🧐
@cheeseballs3825
July 24, 2025 at 12:22 pm
POC need more crack smoking areas in modern design!
@stevenporter863
July 24, 2025 at 5:50 pm
Only thing is go back to the stone age and start again. He just poses a question but no answer.
@KenTheAdventurer
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 pm
I too was waiting for some kind of re design idea or illustration for a women’s bathroom
@daniela151
July 27, 2025 at 9:34 am
You know the answer to this explicit dilemma could be as simple as “give them more toilets” 😅
But in general the solution is to talk more with the people. But that needs time and money and empathy. Sadly the industry cuts the empathy since they have no time and money for it since payment for design is generally to low.
So it all comes down to: You need a good investor who takes money in his/her hands to invest in a project willing to give extra for a human design instead of a profitable one. But these are rare.
@scienceteam9254
July 24, 2025 at 12:24 pm
So why is a man speaking exactly?
@CalmWatersLiving
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 pm
🤔… maybe he identifies as something else…
@synth712
July 24, 2025 at 10:12 pm
ted talk start gone in wring direction
@ewalichorowicz4614
July 24, 2025 at 12:27 pm
Great points! Thank you so much 🙏❤️😊
@martydekkers
July 24, 2025 at 12:40 pm
Many rooms at my job have no windows. They say they are too expensive.
@saheliweerasinghe
July 24, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Why is this video so short😂
@lorenecarden6312
July 24, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Oh for God’s sake. I thought this was a joke at first. You people are insane.
@michaelchristian7938
July 24, 2025 at 12:55 pm
The architect’s example doesn’t correlate to his narrative. Could the long line actually be the difference between sitting and standing when going to the toilet. Also of the 2+ billion houses in the world, how many have standing urinals? Go and study queuing theory before making such ridiculous statements.
@CalmWatersLiving
July 24, 2025 at 3:22 pm
It is a Berkeley thing. 😂😂
@CalmWatersLiving
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Okay, so you have acknowledged a need. Where is your proposal?
Where is your creativity?
Must be from Berkeley.
@synth712
July 24, 2025 at 10:11 pm
true
@AlexX-xtimes
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Why do you take for a fact that all those bathrooms were all projected by male arquitects?
@Benoit-Pierre
July 24, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Less than 20y ago, insurance companies found that women have more physical damages in some car accidents because car safety is designed for men physionomy and women have a different body that does not interact ideally with things designed for taller men …
Yes, before 2000 science considered only male human was a relevant physical profile to design a car.
@josebenitez3732
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 pm
Form does not follow function.
Start with “Form Follows Fiasco” by Peter Blake.
@yawangle90
July 24, 2025 at 11:32 pm
by speaking about the lack of women in those professions, the speaker doesn’t seem to understand the nature of the way women and men think differently, which led to the numerical imbalance in the first place
@AllthatmakesFall
July 25, 2025 at 1:44 am
And what do you think is the reason for the imbalance specifically? How do they think differently?
@BrianMcInnis87
July 25, 2025 at 12:51 am
1:11 Wasn’t aware there were persons who don’t have a skin color.
@westrim
July 25, 2025 at 1:53 am
I know he’s an architect trying to make it an architect thing, but it isn’t. Things like bathroom stall count are up to A: the code and B: the people paying for the building, who will almost never approve building more stalls than the code required minimum, leaving the architects with nothing to do on this front. In general, the applicable code often requires at least equal number of bathrooms/ bathroom stalls for both men and women, or slightly higher numbers for women than men. Should they have much higher numbers for women than men, for equity rather than equality? Maybe. Is that an architects call? Nope.
@kusmaurya3675
July 25, 2025 at 7:23 am
The person with no earlobe 😅 alien?👽
@cualsy_x
July 25, 2025 at 11:24 am
An answer for everyhing, a solution for nothing.
@Dadlife911
July 26, 2025 at 6:49 am
Just lost all my respect for TedTalk. A freakin DEI feminist? No thanks
@AntDroyd
July 26, 2025 at 11:28 am
you are the problem programmed puppet, you clearly don’t understand.
@vancouverlife1
July 26, 2025 at 10:00 am
Maybe look at places where these issues have been solved. For example, most outdoor events use porta potties used by both men and women so the line if any is mixed. Many fixed venues replicate this with “universal” washrooms shared by everyone eg Granville Island Public Market north east corner facility, Cinematheque Theatre in Vancouver etc
@braveplays1290
July 26, 2025 at 12:22 pm
so there is still no answer to long wehmen long bathroom q?
@braveplays1290
July 26, 2025 at 12:26 pm
woow woow slow down, you dont need to bump up that to 50%… there is no point if they are wehmen or coloful guys but has no skills or ability to do their jobs
@hemogloberino
July 26, 2025 at 1:59 pm
Ten men can simultaneously piss into a giant trough at a football game. Unless women are willing to sacrifice privacy for efficiency you’re gonna have a disparity in line length. Not a matter of “male centric design” or some such nonsense.
@eleycki
July 27, 2025 at 4:23 am
Not really true. The women’s bathrooms could just be bigger than the men’s, rather than the same size.
@bmchamberlain04
July 26, 2025 at 11:30 pm
Yapping on with no solution
@eleycki
July 27, 2025 at 4:22 am
Women design bathrooms too ffs. It isn’t victorian times!
@daniela151
July 27, 2025 at 5:27 am
Architect from Germany over here: One of the reasons there aren’t as many women in the field is because of the system environment that’s based on toxic masculinity. You have to be tough. Getting used to being attacked by your boss, your client and the craftsman. So literally by everyone. Needing to defend yourself all the time for things you didn’t cause. Instead of working together to build a better world for everyone. If you try to talk instead of fight you’re seen as weak. Sure there are exceptions – but these should be the norm. I’m restudying soon to get into work and organisational psychology. I’m done working in this system so I’ll try to fix it.
@AKindTree-P7A4C1
July 27, 2025 at 6:38 am
Design with the two sexes in mind is one thing but I fail to see what colour has to do with toilet design. ??😢