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WIBU to call out a man for using ladies loo?

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BlueBayBic · 15/08/2026 13:09

Yesterday in a motorway service station, a man used the ladies’ disabled/baby change loo. This was through the entryway to the ladies, but off to the right and separate to the main area of toilets on the left. I saw a lady with 2 young children try to challenge him as he went in, but he ignored her. When he came out, I asked why he had used the ladies - to which he (very red in the face) argued that it was separate and he didn’t go into the ladies. He definitely did! Another lady who witnessed this then went and checked and said to me that the toilet is separate, however this doesn’t excuse a man going past the ladies sign and into the designated ladies area. There was a separate, clearly signposted, male disabled/baby change behind the male toilets entryway. WIBU?

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SamphiretheTervosaur · 15/08/2026 16:09

NannyR · 15/08/2026 14:32

He may have needed to use the loo urgently, maybe had an invisible disability and the gents loos were all busy. If this was the case, no wonder the poor chap was embarassed.

Really?

Never seen that happen and I am 61 years old with DH with IBS

SamphiretheTervosaur · 15/08/2026 16:08

SinisterGreenMan · 15/08/2026 13:14

Was he pretending to be a woman?

Does it matter?

No adult male makes that mistake. But you know that

NotAnotherScarf · 15/08/2026 15:55

UniquePinkSwan · 15/08/2026 14:23

No you don’t know that. He saw where the disabled toilets where and went in. He didn’t go into the ladies at all

A) i am a man b). To go into any disabled loo in the circumstances the op described you have to pass a large fuck off sign of a woman. My dad was illiterate but never once used the ladies

Why are you defending the dirty perv...there are similar disabled loos clearly signposted in the men's?

LadyJaneEarlGreyTea · 15/08/2026 14:39

I think there is something strange about a man walking past the “Women’s“ signage to enter the toilet area designated for women.

If he was on his own and walking unaided he probably had the mobility to use a cubicle on the men’s side. It seems unlikely that the male disabled cubicle and all the male standard cubicles were occupied.

Also, when challenged he only argued that the women’s disabled cubicle was separate from the main women’s section. If he genuinely had been forced into the woman’s side because there was no cubicle available to him a more normal response would be to apologise to the several women he had clearly made uncomfortable.

NannyR · 15/08/2026 14:32

He may have needed to use the loo urgently, maybe had an invisible disability and the gents loos were all busy. If this was the case, no wonder the poor chap was embarassed.

WallaceinAnderland · 15/08/2026 14:27

He wasn't a woman and didn't have a baby so he must have had a disability. If the equivalent facility in the men's side was in use I wouldn't have a problem with him using the one on the ladies side, as it was completely separate to the main block of loos.

PrizedPickledPopcorn · 15/08/2026 14:25

UniquePinkSwan · 15/08/2026 14:23

No you don’t know that. He saw where the disabled toilets where and went in. He didn’t go into the ladies at all

They were in the men’s as well. He chose to use the women’s, walking past the women’s sign to do it.

UniquePinkSwan · 15/08/2026 14:23

NotAnotherScarf · 15/08/2026 13:10

Good for you. You know he's trying to catch a glimpse into the actual ladies and this is a way of doing it.

Sick cunt

No you don’t know that. He saw where the disabled toilets where and went in. He didn’t go into the ladies at all

StandingDeskDisco · 15/08/2026 13:38

So within the ladies area (past the ladies sign) there was a separate disabled and baby change area, and the same on the men's side?
This is an unusual set up, not one that I have ever seen. It doubles the cost of providing these facilities.
Most baby change areas and accessible toilets are unisex and found in between the men's and women's.

For baby changing, I think a unisex, family friendly set up is the way to go, so any parents and children combination of any sex can use them.

I imagine disabled women would quite like having an accessible toilet just for women - but again they might need helpers who could be of either sex, so it should be in a unisex area.

To answer your question - you were right to challenge him.

Millytante · 15/08/2026 13:19

Do you mean to say there was also a disabled access loo for men? If not, and he needed such a facility, he had little choice but to find his way to the Ladies’ one.
Baby changing rooms should not be within the Ladies’ area anyway. Men do cart infants around, and need to change nappies when out and about.

Not that I’m an apologist of men being within our loo spaces, not at all. But in this case, as it stands, any ill intentions have not been established by OP. .

Mooselander · 15/08/2026 13:19

Lmnop22 · 15/08/2026 13:17

It’s an entirely separate and self contained cubicle so what’s the issue? He didn’t actually go into or pass anything except the ladies sign - he didn’t see any women using the toilets and seems to just have used the toilet and then left… your OP makes no mention of pervy behaviour, lingering, looking or comments.

If it was roles reversed and a woman used the disabled toilet technically in the gents nobody would care.

This.

Lmnop22 · 15/08/2026 13:17

It’s an entirely separate and self contained cubicle so what’s the issue? He didn’t actually go into or pass anything except the ladies sign - he didn’t see any women using the toilets and seems to just have used the toilet and then left… your OP makes no mention of pervy behaviour, lingering, looking or comments.

If it was roles reversed and a woman used the disabled toilet technically in the gents nobody would care.

SinisterGreenMan · 15/08/2026 13:14

Was he pretending to be a woman?

BlueBayBic · 15/08/2026 13:13

I agree! Pervert 😡

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NotAnotherScarf · 15/08/2026 13:10

Good for you. You know he's trying to catch a glimpse into the actual ladies and this is a way of doing it.

Sick cunt