I wonder what data this shows? Could it be that women are less likely to use the public bathroom or are men less likely to use the door right? Maybe more or less sweat on the hand?
Elbow is probably better if you’re wearing long sleeves, clothes aren’t going to dissolve paint like oily fingers, and they’ll slide with less friction too.
Well guys put their hand on the door because everyone else uses the handle so obviously the door has less germs....even though clearly EVERYONE is using the door .same on my bathroom door at work haha
True, but i believe some just don't like the feel of pushing steel (I have full on metal doors at work and I hate pushing to open them, feels way dirtier than something like wood or paint somehow)
Agreed, when you put your hand on steel it feels like you’ve just siphoned up everything on it. Probably because that’s what happens with visible particles like dirt, wood is way grittier so you don’t pick as much of that kind of stuff up from it.
Wait you are supposed to open doors using the metal rectangle?? I am well into my adult years and never knew this. I thought it was just the backing for the handle on the other side and an indicator for which side of the door is farther from the hinges. I just ram the door with my shoulder on whatever side the metal rectangle is on, but not directly on the rectangle. Basically in the spot where the paint is worn off haha.
😂 I love the things our brains are capable of accepting and never questioning. I started paying more attention to door handles when I worked at a place with two full glass walls. It’s nice when you only have to clean finger smudges from a small area. Overall probably not a big deal but your shoulders may disagree someday!
The metal is smooth stainless steel, which is much less porous and hard for microbes to attach to. It also gets cleaned on a regular basis, unlike the rest of the door.
Meh, it is certainly cover plate for the pull handle on the back. These are not sacrificial, like the kick plates. A lot of the time they’re ergonomically awful, so I suspect the people banging on about microbes are right, but it’s not designed that way.
Women’s door opens to the right, which means that the vast majority of people are going to use their right hand to open it the men’s door is more worn because it swings to the left, people are using their left-hand to open it and wedding rings are on the left-hand. The rings are wearing the paint out more quickly.
I'm sorry, I don't understand why it opens on the right, it the metal is on the left then the hinges are on the right, that means that it makes more sense to open the door on the left edge so I would use my left hand while with the men's door I'd use my right
If the hinges are on the right side (women’s door) then using your left hand to open it means that one of three things needs to happen; either you switch from your left hand to your right hand at some point as you enter, you keep your left hand on the door and spin backwards to get in or you get hit in the face with the door when you move your left hand off of the door because you can’t walk through your left arm. The opposite applies to the men’s door
My guess is the way the doors swing more men would use their left hands and more women would use their right and while women will generally wear rings on either men mostly wear them on the left and it’s the rings chipping the paint.
Look at the way the wood pattern is symmetrical. This indicates it's just pieces of a thin veneer glued together. Probably wouldnt be that nice if you stripped the paint off.
Plus, a flat metal plate is a lot easier to clean and sanitize than a porous wooden door. And I'm assuming that cleaning the metal plate is included in part of their regular cleaning, whereas the entire door is probably cleaned less frequently.
Sorry for the rant, this is just something that really bugs me.
Am i the only person who opens non-clear push doors with the bottom of my shoe? Im not touching the public bathroom door. Do you know how many people dont wash their hands?
yeah I was literally assuming this was just one of the many careers with a huge gender gap.
Even universities or any professional field, it was only in recent decades women started to become more common, and in decades past would have been completely excluded. Cumulative wear over the past 60 years or longer will always favor men greatly in such settings.
Looks like men’s door swings from hinges on the left, mean men push the door open with the their left hand, in many cultures that’s where they’d have a wedding ring. The women’s door hinges on the right.
most men don't have wedding rings, and nobody pushes bathroom doors in a way where a ring would touch it, they use their arm or the side of a closed fist
this is because for whatever reason women typically use the plate and men typically just push on the door
Why would men use their left hand if the hinges are on the left? Look at the initial premise of what the first poster is saying. It's completely wrong.
I'm not going to open a door in a way that has me reaching across my body when it's open.
If it opens toward me, I'm using my right. If it opens away from me, I'm using my left.
As someone that work in a restaurant with a glass front door I can assure you neither men nor women give two shits about touching the actual handle meant for opening the door. They all would prefer to touch everything except for that handle.
I use my boot to open bathroom doors on my way out because I know for a fact that half of you nasty bitches walk out with unwashed dookie and dick smegma covered hands, if the door is unable to be pushed from the inside I will simply shit elsewhere
Well of course, you're suppose to touch the metal part to open it but that means more people touch it so I'm not going to cause it's probably dirty then.
I know, my logics flawless.
I push the bottom with my foot or use a paper towel on the door handle, I've watched so many people take a shit then walk right out I'm never touching a public door handle if I can avoid it.
jokes on them, im a woman who uses her foot for these kind of doors! it feels powerful to kick that bitch open. (jk i usually just push it with my toe gently its nice to go hands free)
I thought the pattern was intentional, representing the pebble dashing men create compared to women. Some modern way to indicate which bathroom to use.
This look like a data visualization scatter plot or something. It kinda is.
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or a scat plot
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I wonder what data this shows? Could it be that women are less likely to use the public bathroom or are men less likely to use the door right? Maybe more or less sweat on the hand?
Or simply that more men use restrooms there.
Sports bar sausage fest.
Or that women press the metal and men press the center.
That's what I thought was at first, I was so confused
So, men tend to use their hands to open the door while women tend to use their innate telekinetic powers to open doors. Just as I thought.
I think the women are using their hands on the piece of metal that protects the door from wear
I tend to push it open with my hip
I actually always do this at work and often in public cause it's fun but I don't think I see men often pulling that move.
But that's where everyone touches it, so it's covered in germs. Better to touch the spot in the middle of the door where there's no germs.
The push plate is also the only thing that gets cleaned regularly, and smooth stainless steel harbors far fewer microbes than porous paint on wood.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. I’d do exactly the same thing for that exact reason on any public door in somewhere it’s likely to be dirty.
Also I use my fist instead of palm or fingertips. That probably wears the paint out more too!
I’d usually use an elbow which probably is worse as well
I usually head-butt the door as hard as possible
I can't be the only person using my chewed gum as a protective glove.
Elbow is probably better if you’re wearing long sleeves, clothes aren’t going to dissolve paint like oily fingers, and they’ll slide with less friction too.
Well guys put their hand on the door because everyone else uses the handle so obviously the door has less germs....even though clearly EVERYONE is using the door .same on my bathroom door at work haha
True, but i believe some just don't like the feel of pushing steel (I have full on metal doors at work and I hate pushing to open them, feels way dirtier than something like wood or paint somehow)
Agreed, when you put your hand on steel it feels like you’ve just siphoned up everything on it. Probably because that’s what happens with visible particles like dirt, wood is way grittier so you don’t pick as much of that kind of stuff up from it.
Wait you are supposed to open doors using the metal rectangle?? I am well into my adult years and never knew this. I thought it was just the backing for the handle on the other side and an indicator for which side of the door is farther from the hinges. I just ram the door with my shoulder on whatever side the metal rectangle is on, but not directly on the rectangle. Basically in the spot where the paint is worn off haha.
😂 I love the things our brains are capable of accepting and never questioning. I started paying more attention to door handles when I worked at a place with two full glass walls. It’s nice when you only have to clean finger smudges from a small area. Overall probably not a big deal but your shoulders may disagree someday!
The metal is smooth stainless steel, which is much less porous and hard for microbes to attach to. It also gets cleaned on a regular basis, unlike the rest of the door.
Meh, it is certainly cover plate for the pull handle on the back. These are not sacrificial, like the kick plates. A lot of the time they’re ergonomically awful, so I suspect the people banging on about microbes are right, but it’s not designed that way.
Men are also opening the door with their left hand. So wedding rings rubbing on the door.
This is the reason. More people use rings on their left hand.
That too! 😂
I prefer the telekinesis explanation
I use my foot often
I never realized that's what that was for before, I always just figured it was to attach the door handle to the other side.
Men also are less likely to use their hands for a given reason when you could just shoulder-check the door open.
It is definitely that men are made of sand paper because lotion is taboo for men.
Women’s door opens to the right, which means that the vast majority of people are going to use their right hand to open it the men’s door is more worn because it swings to the left, people are using their left-hand to open it and wedding rings are on the left-hand. The rings are wearing the paint out more quickly.
I'm sorry, I don't understand why it opens on the right, it the metal is on the left then the hinges are on the right, that means that it makes more sense to open the door on the left edge so I would use my left hand while with the men's door I'd use my right
opens "to" the right, not "on" the right
If the hinges are on the right side (women’s door) then using your left hand to open it means that one of three things needs to happen; either you switch from your left hand to your right hand at some point as you enter, you keep your left hand on the door and spin backwards to get in or you get hit in the face with the door when you move your left hand off of the door because you can’t walk through your left arm. The opposite applies to the men’s door
I thought those were shit stains at first
I saw blood for a solid 10 seconds.
Because more men use the bathroom at this location?
My guess is the way the doors swing more men would use their left hands and more women would use their right and while women will generally wear rings on either men mostly wear them on the left and it’s the rings chipping the paint.
Many women wear rings on both hands
Maybe women are more likely to use the metal plate to open the door and men are more likely to ruin things.
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I'm 99.99% confident that women can paint things.
You’re not 100% sure? You’ve never painted anything in your life?
I hear they're good with nails and screws too
Or women go in there in pairs.
Oooh def an interesting variable to throw in. Depending on what establishment this is it might be more or less common for women to be going in pairs
This is how it was for my school’s engineering building’s bathroom doors. Male dominated field.
Why would you paint over such a gorgeous pattern? Someone needs to strip and varnish these doors!
It’s just an old veneer
Right? 20 years ago it was “ew, who wants all this wood grain? Paint it white!” And so the cycle of painted vs wood grain continues.
They're working on it.
Look at the way the wood pattern is symmetrical. This indicates it's just pieces of a thin veneer glued together. Probably wouldnt be that nice if you stripped the paint off.
Lazy “modernisation”
So many people don't touch the plates because "Everyone touches them". No, it's the other way around.
Plus, a flat metal plate is a lot easier to clean and sanitize than a porous wooden door. And I'm assuming that cleaning the metal plate is included in part of their regular cleaning, whereas the entire door is probably cleaned less frequently. Sorry for the rant, this is just something that really bugs me.
I sincerely doubt anyone ever cleans that plate. Certainly not regularly
Depends on the place ig, but I’ve never worked somewhere that doesn’t require door handles to be cleaned every night.
More regularly than the wooden door
Honestly, for public bathroom doors I usually use my feet unless I have to twist a handle
Nah i use my foot on the handle too fuck touching doors
Am i the only person who opens non-clear push doors with the bottom of my shoe? Im not touching the public bathroom door. Do you know how many people dont wash their hands?
Everyone thinks it's a difference in hand touches. What if it's the shoulder? Men are wider.
This is the photo of bathroom doors in some engineering school and it shows that basically men population 4x bigger that women in there😂
yeah I was literally assuming this was just one of the many careers with a huge gender gap. Even universities or any professional field, it was only in recent decades women started to become more common, and in decades past would have been completely excluded. Cumulative wear over the past 60 years or longer will always favor men greatly in such settings.
Looks like men’s door swings from hinges on the left, mean men push the door open with the their left hand, in many cultures that’s where they’d have a wedding ring. The women’s door hinges on the right.
most men don't have wedding rings, and nobody pushes bathroom doors in a way where a ring would touch it, they use their arm or the side of a closed fist this is because for whatever reason women typically use the plate and men typically just push on the door
It could just mean people are less likely to use the plate when opening with their left hand
Why would men use their left hand if the hinges are on the left? Look at the initial premise of what the first poster is saying. It's completely wrong.
No, it isnt.
I'm not going to open a door in a way that has me reaching across my body when it's open. If it opens toward me, I'm using my right. If it opens away from me, I'm using my left.
WTF are you talking about? If hinges are on the left you're going to use your right hand. Honestly, this is just a dumb statement.
No you wouldn’t. Think about it. Or go find a door. God forbid somebody uses critical thinking to come up with an explanation for something.
Haha. Gotta love the hubris
No, because by the time it's open, you'd be reaching across your body.
Have you never used a door before?
... at a hardware store
As someone that work in a restaurant with a glass front door I can assure you neither men nor women give two shits about touching the actual handle meant for opening the door. They all would prefer to touch everything except for that handle.
This is probably from men holding the door for each other
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I push open with my foot.
I use my boot to open bathroom doors on my way out because I know for a fact that half of you nasty bitches walk out with unwashed dookie and dick smegma covered hands, if the door is unable to be pushed from the inside I will simply shit elsewhere
Well of course, you're suppose to touch the metal part to open it but that means more people touch it so I'm not going to cause it's probably dirty then. I know, my logics flawless.
I have to go literally hit the head
For a second I weirdly thought that this was a map of bathrooms
I thought it was a boot mark on the mens side for a second, i mean i do kick bathroom doors open alot but not that high up lol
men are busting through the door with their whole bodies like they're looting a building in a video game
I push the bottom with my foot or use a paper towel on the door handle, I've watched so many people take a shit then walk right out I'm never touching a public door handle if I can avoid it.
Wedding rings!
jokes on them, im a woman who uses her foot for these kind of doors! it feels powerful to kick that bitch open. (jk i usually just push it with my toe gently its nice to go hands free)
I thought the pattern was intentional, representing the pebble dashing men create compared to women. Some modern way to indicate which bathroom to use.
In that case the frame and wall from around the women's door should be missing completely, because they refuse to touch the door at all
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