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What do others do? Long queues for women's loos....

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loveyouradvice · 07/05/2019 12:29

I realise I am getting really angry about this....

Wherever there is a queue for the Ladies, there is none for the Gents and they breeze in and out in seconds

I have started just using the men's and telling anyone that asks that I'm doing it for Gender Equality (yup, know that should be Sex Equality but am aiming to be understood)....

Each time I do it I need to brace myself but it is getting easier...

What do others do?

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ErrolTheDragon · 07/05/2019 13:00
  • Why do they have no queue? One word: Urinals. Zip down, pee, dip up. Done. Go.*

Plus, none dealing with periods, and fewer with kids in tow.

There's some stats in here
www.loo.co.uk/46/Toilet-Ratios

Lamaha · 07/05/2019 12:56

I wait.
Only once I used a men's loo, and that was at a service station on a French motorway. The ladies' queue was a mile long and the men's had no queue. A female attendant came along and shooed a whole bunch of the ladies over to the men's. All I can say is: it stank.

Why do they have no queue?
One word: Urinals. Zip down, pee, dip up. Done. Go.

Cherylshaw · 07/05/2019 12:54

@TransposersArePosers
In a restaurant or night club when there are 2 or 3 women in a cubicle having a chat and a laugh, that does hold up the cue. Also when there are so many women around the sinks/mirrors, it is a mission to squeeze past to use the cubicle so slows the flow (as it were) of the line outside

TooTrueToBeGood · 07/05/2019 12:50

Men are just as entitled as women to have a safe space.

Why? I've never felt physically threatened by women and I don't have any meaningful concerns about being raped or sexually assaulted by women. You can't really translate women's legitimate need for safe spaces to us men.

TransposersArePosers · 07/05/2019 12:47

BTW, I wait, rather than crash the gents.

Thread here

TransposersArePosers · 07/05/2019 12:45

Cherylshaw I go in, pee, wash my hands and then leave. The chatting and doing make up wouldn't impact the queue for the actual toilets anyway, unless these women are doing all that while locked in a cubicle?

I'll try and find the thread regarding a WPUK talk on toilet provision. A point made in that, which I hadn't considered before, was that often the same amount of floor area is given to male and female toilets, BUT, there are more facilities available for the men to use because urinals take up less space than cubicles.

DecomposingComposers · 07/05/2019 12:37

So men aren't as entitled to a sex segregated space then as women OP?

Cherylshaw · 07/05/2019 12:36

Wash not was...

Cherylshaw · 07/05/2019 12:36

They breeze in and out because they go in, pee, was then leave. Women faff around chatting and re doing make up, trying on clothes etc
The only thing that gets me annoyed about male and female toilets is the lack of child changing facilities especially in male toilets when there is not a separate area available. That is something to get annoyed about

Hoppinggreen · 07/05/2019 12:34

I wait
We go to monster truck/robot wars type events occasionally and it’s the one time the men’s toilet Q is longer than the ladies
I would be very unhappy if a man came in our toilets so why should I use theirs? Double standards

AgnesNaismith · 07/05/2019 12:33

I wait Hmm

Interesting ‘spin’ OP

miagerbies · 07/05/2019 12:31

Sorry, but I wait.

I get that it isn't fair but tbh if a man started strolling into the ladies toilets, saying he was doing it for gender equality, there would be a lot of frightened women feeling unsafe.

Men are just as entitled as women to have a safe space.

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loveyouradvice · 07/05/2019 12:30

Oops... only using Gents when long queue for Ladies so they can see the queue as they walk out and start to think how unfair it is...

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