speak, girl

Why do businesses have separate male/female restrooms even when they’re single-person?

the-womanifesto:

I just do not understand this. At my work and plenty of other places, there are two single-toilet bathrooms. You go inside and lock the door. Except they’re separated by male and female. There is nothing special or different about them. They’re identical bathrooms. Why is this necessary?

I’ll even see a line of women (because we always have the lines) waiting outside the single-toilet women’s bathroom and the men’s will be wide open. I’m definitely that chick that’s gonna go piss in the dude room. I can handle the sight of a urinal and they won’t die if they see a tampon wrapper in the trash can.

The bathrooms at my job are completely identical, except the soap dispenser in the men’s room actually works. There is no point in gendering them. I want to pry those little signs off the doors.