I feel for men who take their young daughters alone. It's much easier for a mother to drag her son into the woman's room than for a man to do the same. Women's rooms are pretty private with the stalls and unless you're actually peeping into the stall there isn't much you'll see. But with urinals in the men's rooms it's much less private. Of course they could take their daughter into a companion restroom, but at some point in time the dad is going to have to go too. It make's me think of Three Men and a Little Lady where they blindfolded her.
I think it's interesting that she's been driving a lot of traffic to her blog because of this story.
My personal favorite are the open letters. "To the man who..." said or looked at me in a way that I'm going to claim is judgement of the thing I'd like to be compensated for writing about.Seems to be a trend. Goes hand in hand with those "my kids were almost kidnapped/human trafficking victims even though they were actually always completely safe or I did something that was bad parenting but don't want to admit that" articles that keep going around
Situations like this could totally go away if we just stopped with gendered bathrooms. It is becoming more common where I am and it is actually nice. When there are just rows and rows of bathrooms anyone can use them the lines usually go faster. Instead of 12 stalls for women that are always full and 12 stalls for men that are almost never full you get 24 that anyone can use. I guess the only issue some guys have is that it usually gets rid of urinals which are quicker for them but that's a minor inconvenience. The real only extra step is having to close a door.
I think it's a very interesting article that brings up a potential paradox. If trans women don't feel safe in the men's restroom, than why would they (or any woman) feel safe if a "man" comes into the ladies restroom. If you let anyone go into whichever bathroom they identify with, you can't stop a "man" from going into a ladies restroom. -who are you to judge what gender they identify with, when your judgement is based on their looks. So, the allowance, which is meant to make a trans woman feel safe, is the very allowance that makes her feel unsafe. It's a weird cycle that only seems fixed by individual restrooms or everyone feeling comfortable peeing with any gender present. Just mho.
My personal favorite are the open letters. "To the man who..." said or looked at me in a way that I'm going to claim is judgement of the thing I'd like to be compensated for writing about.
She sounds like she was hallucinating. Personally, I wouldn't use any restroom that had 1" gaps between the doors. Where is that restroom? I have never seen it. Again, I'd never use a restroom like that when I know there are many others in the park that don't have 1" gaps.
I've walked into the men's restroom by mistake before. Maybe he did that. Maybe he lost a kid. Who really cares? She was in there with 2 boys. She could have used a companion bathroom. I used a companion bathroom by myself 2 days ago because I didn't want to wait in line for the regular bathroom. I guess she didn't have anything else exciting to write about.