An image for you from North Carolina. It looks like the building was designed to standard building codes, but as there was very rarely a female in the building, the guys were using whichever washroom was available, so someone made it official. The washroom door locks and inside is a toilet and a washbasin with shaving cream and other toiletries indicating that people practically live in this building. I have no problem with using a unisex head. I'm often surprised to find that a maintenance hangar or other mostly male province has a ladies room.
A friend of mine worked at a mine site where she was the only female. So they put a second port-a-potty in, and labelled one "men" and the other with her name...
ReplyDeleteWhen a bathroom is a "single" the whole notion of Ladies or Men should be disregarded. Maybe if they just labelled it "toilet" things would be better?
ReplyDeleteImagine you're at a bar, the ladies lineup is 40 deep and the mens room seems to be empty, wouldn't you just hop over and take a pee there? Why are people so uptight about this?
At my workplace they actually have a lock and key on the ladies but not the mens. Guess where the wifey goes to potty when everyone else has gone home? (I don't have a key!).
I don't let a sign stop me from using the ladies room.
ReplyDeleteIf im out and there are two single use washrooms one "mens" and the other "ladies". I will gladly use the ladies washroom if the mens one is occupied.
An old-fashioned country pub here had three: "Gents" was a wall-and-trough urinal, "Ladies" was a sit-down lav with a washbasin. "Toilet" was equipped like the ladies but stank like the gents.
ReplyDeleteAt a lot of quilt events they relabel mens' rooms with a sign that says, well, "Women." Persecuted gender minorities have to go next door.
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