user1492958275, why is it utterly unsurprising that instead of formulating even a half-arsed cogent argument as to why women who point out that it's a rum do to tell other women it's stupid to worry about male abuse, while at the same time telling us you worry about your DS's feelz, you run off calling people who disagree with you stupid, without actually explaining why your concern about your DS's feelz is more valid than other women's concern about their privacy?
I suppose that's the nature of MN nowadays.
I have some sympathy with Morphene's argument, that we should all just get over ourselves and be naked as nature intended, wherever we go and throw out all that uptight victorian stuff.
However. The problem with that attractive prospect, is that unfortunately Morphene, there are still far too many men around, who do not see women as real human beings, but as fuck objects. So when they see our naked bodies, because of the "othering" they have done on the idea of a woman, they don't just get over themselves, they have learned to sexualise those naked bodies and make judgements about them.
In addition, men are still raping women at the rate of 1 in 4 of us and using images and film of women being sexually tortured while naked, to bring them to orgasm.
If that weren't the case, then we could all just get changed together, swim together, be naked together, without being uptight or uncomfortable or self-conscious. Because men wouldn't have othered us, they wouldn't go home and jack off to naked imaged of us being humiliated, they wouldn't cat-call us, or sit with their friends and make vile comments about women's bodies, faces, etc. in order to bond with other men over how inferior women are; there would be no hinterland of cultural vileness towards women and we could all get over ourselves and run naked round the changing rooms together.
In the absence of that, women are absolutely justified in wanting privacy from men.
And that includes in public areas. By telling other women that we have no right to some privacy from men in public (like loos, changing rooms etc.) and if we want it, we should stay at home, you are basically telling women that if we're not happy to comply with men's control of public space, with all the cultural shit about women that they bring to public space, then we should just stay back in the kitchen.
Very cool girl I'm sure and there's an awful lot of misogynists who will applaud you for those sentiments. But for Christ's sake woman, think for a moment, about what you are saying. Just think.