Copied this from another thread..as I highly suspect that thread will go poof before long.
I went to see Ed Sheeran at St James Park last night. In the break after Anne Marie (supporting), the queue for the womens loo was literally 300 people long, maybe more. Meanwhile there seemed to be noone in the mens. The women were waiting patiently as they are used to this obviously. So I led a mass revolt into the mens, I announced to the people around me that if we were stopped, we just need to say we 'identify' as men, which amused them BUT it turned out a few of them had already heard of all this self ID nonsense and found the idea decent. So off we went to the mens. A few men were in there and I did shout through that we were coming in incase they weren't impressed (which I guess goes against the whole 'I am a man' thing, but yeah, I thought of their feelings and discomfort) and a couple shot into the cubicle instead of continuing to use the urinal. Those men were absolutely not happy at all with the situation. A few men were though and found it funny, and one stopped to talk to me where I told him that I am currently identifying as a man as the womens queue was ridiculous. he had also heard of all the self ID nonsense, chuckled to himself and left. And the women, got to the loo faster. Men had to queue beside the (growing) queue of women who were waiting there..or use the urinal in a room full of women, that they did not seem impressed with either. And security came over but they just stood at the door holding it open for people.
I then found out that earlier in the night, the same kind of thing had happened BUT it had actually been one of the female security staff who had went to the mens, held the door and invited women in the large queue to come use the mens instead. So basically, the female security staff had decided to allow women to identify as men grin
A good day, really. And I did not click on that it was friday either until this thread. Heh.
The mens fucking stank to the high heavens though, but it was better than being desperate for the loo for an hour in a ridiculously long queue for sure. And potentially missing half of Ed Sheeran, given the breaks were fairly short.
I would say it was probably 50/50 of men who were ok with it,. and men who absolutely were not. If I had clicked on about it being ManFriday I would have attempted to explain this to the men who were not impressed. But I didn't..I didn't plan on doing a ManFriday, however it was just a thought when so many women were inconvenienced and there was a way to end this. I was expecting to have to explain to security that we identified as men though, and find out what St James' Park thought of it all. But as it turned out, security were not just accepting of it, they started it earlier in the night when the same problem reared its head. Not entirely sure why they did not start it in the second break mind, maybe they had had a talking to or something. But I did start it the second time, and it felt bloody good.