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2015-07-02

by shaenon on July 2, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. =Tamar
    July 2, 2015, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Easy solution. Remove all distinguishing signs, make them all generic.

    • Gyrre
      July 12, 2015, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Just do what a number of rest-stops do, have a third unisex restroom. Granted, those are generally meant for parents with small children.

  2. Jay
    July 2, 2015, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Easy answer – does the hermaphroditic echinoderm wear trousers, or a dress?

    (Yeah, I know. Five-legged trousers are just so inconvenient, no matter your gender identity.)

    • VillageWizard
      July 2, 2015, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      So, what about those who, like the animal in this strip, isn’t wearing anything down there?

      • Robert Nowall
        July 2, 2015, 7:06 am | # | Reply

        Disposable slipcovers for the furniture, right away.

  3. SYABM
    July 2, 2015, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    “His, Hers, Neither”.

  4. B
    July 2, 2015, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    SUGAR actually has a point when skin horse could deal with entities with potentially anything nonhuman, you need somewhere for them to poop. Having an all inclusive set of restrooms like Tamar suggested might be best. But that works best when you have several single restrooms as opposed to a men’s room and ladie’s room that can fit several each. I wonder what the building has already?

    • drachefly
      July 2, 2015, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      Having lived in a dormitory where all the restrooms could be used by anyone, including the showers… it’s actually not that big a deal. It’s not like you’re in the same shower stall or on the same toilet. The only difference was the urinals got doors.

      • M. Alan Thomas II
        July 2, 2015, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

        I’m fresh back from the American Library Association Annual Conference, where (at our request) some of the restrooms are always designated all-inclusive.

        Mind you, this also manages to comply with potty parity laws while still effectively giving an overwhelmingly female profession the accommodations it needs. 😉

  5. Pygar
    July 2, 2015, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    If I could only find a link to the Star Wars bathroom from MAD Magazine’s adaptation… it’d be the only possible solution to the “facilities for all” conundrum!

    • Eddurd
      July 2, 2015, 8:35 am | # | Reply

      http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/starwarspanelbv4.jpg

  6. evilmidnightlurker
    July 2, 2015, 3:01 am | # | Reply

    Ask Tigerlily to set up a suite of extradimensional bathrooms all using the same space, with a “door” that teleports you into and hopefully out of the correct room, possibly reconfiguring themselves to match whatever user enters. Bang, done.

    • Jay
      July 2, 2015, 3:28 am | # | Reply

      Would you want to use a toilet made entirely of springs?

      • Stickmaker
        July 2, 2015, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

        Metal or liquid?

    • Dr. Steve
      July 2, 2015, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

      Gah! see “The number of the beast” where the reality-traveling vehicle visits OZ and is provided with extra-dimensional bathrooms.

  7. GammarayCanon
    July 2, 2015, 5:55 am | # | Reply

    Simple solution: remove all gender-specific facilities and the signs and just cover the walls with stalls.

    • irdburns
      July 2, 2015, 6:56 am | # | Reply

      This gets into one of my favorite pet design problems: multispecies architecture! You not only need to accommodate different scales (as people do with the elaborate cat walkway constructions) but also things like this. And in a world with robots, the distribution of wall sockets becomes more than simple convenience…

  8. Robert Nowall
    July 2, 2015, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    I can’t vouch for government work—probably it’d be contracted out—but having a one-day repiping job done on my house was probably the greatest ordeal I’ve been through since I bought the house.

  9. sbaker
    July 2, 2015, 11:06 am | # | Reply

    All-species restrooms, Tip. COME ON GET WITH IT!

    (We are trying to replace the bathroom signs here where I work with ones that just have a picture of a toilet. The “all-gender” sign currently in use shows a stereotypical man-figure and a stereotypical woman-figure, which, you know… points for trying, but kind of misses the whole point of the exercise.)

    • davidbreslin101
      July 2, 2015, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve just had a horrifying vision of advanced aliens intercepting the Pioneer 10 space probe, cross-referencing the image on the plaque with cultural info from our TV broadcasts, and concluding that we want Earth to be used as one gigantic toilet.

  10. oneuniverse2
    July 2, 2015, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    How do those countries with kilts handle this situation? Also, aren’t humans too hung up on gender identity anyway?

    • kicking_k
      July 2, 2015, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry to disappoint you, but we have the same implied-trousers pictogram for the blokes as other countries do.

      And yes, I think you are right. But then I’ve occasionally used the men’s loo if there was a huge queue at the ladies’ (and no queue at the men’s). Nothing bad ever happened…

  11. Freddie Freelance
    July 2, 2015, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

    Which one has the bidet? That’s the one I want to use.

  12. Tom Flapwell
    July 2, 2015, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

    Is an echioderm the same as an echinoderm?

  13. Liath Mactire
    July 2, 2015, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

    If you try to consider all lifeforms, it gets … complicated. A fictional world that I read stories in has a lot of “taur” (as in centaur-like) species. There the taur toilets are more like Japanese squat toilets – which is probably what species on four legs would prefer.

    As for kilts – it depends on whether you mean issues with the fixtures or the signs 😉

  14. Shadowmehr
    July 2, 2015, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    I’m reminded of the scene in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe where the main characters are standing outside 37 doors for the 37 major races of the galaxy.

    Add mad science to the mix, and Skin Horse’s new offices might break the record.

  15. WJS
    July 26, 2019, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

    Given Shaenon’s known left-wing bent, it’s a pleasant surprise to see that sort of person cast as the bad guys.

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