Should know better
What. the. hell.
I magnified to read the sign between the two so that you wouldn’t have to: it says “The nearest female WC is on the other side of the floor.”
PS fuck you and have a nice day.
Why do they do this? How can they not see how insulting and unfair and grotesque it is? How can they think it’s ok to give men toilets just for men while opening women’s toilets to anyone who feels like dropping in?
Because, on the scheme of things important to them, virtue signalling is a very high value, whereas caring about women is not a value at all?
Just a guess.
At my alma mater, there is a building specifically called the “Engineering Center” where most of the engineering classes are taught. It was built in the 1960’s, and at the time that it was built, there were only men’s restrooms in it. This was the case almost until I matriculated, in 1984: just a few years before, some of the men’s restrooms had been repurposed to be women’s restrooms.
This is where we are now: regressed 40 years or more.
Why do they do this? I think the amorphous “reasoning” involved is that men ought to be separated from all the poor, marginalized types, because the poor, marginalized types are inherently all nonthreatening. Thus it’s appropriate to put the PMTs together, as the point is just to keep them away from men.
(Never mind the contradictions entailed by any of this. Just don’t look closely at anything, especially not the man behind the curtain with a camera in one hand and his junk in the other.)
Of course, that’s when there’s actually what amounts to an intended “non-men” restroom. This one seriously has the man symbol on it, so who knows wtf they’re thinking.
Nothing says elitism like a heterosexual-male-only toilet. The opposite of progress.
Yeah, Nullius, and I don’t imagine they thought twice about putting the same male symbol on both doors. Anyone could tell that one on the open access toilet is trans, right? And since trans women are women, we’ll put up a male sign so they’ll know they’re welcome, but they aren’t represented by the male sign, but the female one…
They do go round and round. It makes my head hurt.
As some in the Twitter thread pointed out, assuming there is a women’s toilet (and assuming that overall in the building there are at least as many women’s toilets as men’s), this is more of an insult to disabled people, who now have to share their toilet with people too special to bow to the binary.
Nullius, I don’t think that’s the main reason why they always change the toilets to Men and Everybody rather than Everybody and Everybody. The main reason is that the men’s toilets have urinals. Women don’t want to see men urinate, and men don’t want that either. Therefore the building management figures that the best way to mollify the Special Pronoun People without making expensive structural changes or causing women to see urinating men is to change the sign on the women’s only.
Piglet, sorry, I think you’re being too kind. ;-)
And so what? Women don’t want to see men in the bathroom with them, and that doesn’t seem to make a difference to any of them. Why aren’t men exclusive when they don’t want women seeing them urinate, but women are exclusive for not wanting the more dangerous sex in the bathroom with them, the more vulnerable sex? (I suppose some would say stalls…but anyone who has been in a bathroom stall knows they are no protection.)
This seems like one where the offense may be unwarranted. My usual assumption when I see weird setups like this is that once upon a time they had two bathrooms, men’s and women’s, with no wheelchair accessibility. Then they had to add accessibility, so they remodeled the one without urinals and called it gender neutral. Least amount of money for minimum compliance. I bet something like this happened, then later they just slapped on the extra stickers because that was the zeitgeist.
Remodeling the one with urinals is kind of a pain because the urinals usually constrain the space, and taking them out and reworking the plumbing is annoying.
The worst I’ve ever seen was an old building with one bathroom per floor that was remodeled first for men’s and women’s separate bathrooms, then again for wheelchair access. They had to post signs telling you what floor to use.