Join the mixed-sex loo resistance movement!

[WomanBornNotWorn]

Ideas for what we can do:

Theatres etc - go up to box office loudly asking 'where are the ladies'?' again and again as loudly as you can so the representative has to keep repeating the answer - if you're in a group, take it in turns for variety.

Ring an offending restaurant and book a table for six. Then ask 'I assume you have separate men's and women's loos?' then when they say no, say 'ah no, that doesn't work for us. I'll cancel that and we'll book at (name bitterest rival restaurant that does have separate loos) instead'. Get everyone you know to do it. Make sure you've blocked your number.

Come out of cubicle with full moon cup and wash it out in front of any men present (just pray they're not menophiliac).

Stickers. Lots of stickers.

Learn the statistics so you can recite the evidence of sexual assaults in mixed space etc etc whenever you're contradicted. 'In fact, Home Office statistics show that xx% ... ' etc.

Train your daughters to understand why we are saying no and to have the confidence to speak out. And your sons, too.

I'm not pretending. I just don't care, because I see menstruation as a natural bodily function that's no more disgusting than blowing your nose.

(Less so in fact in that someone washing out a mooncup next to me isn't going to give me the flu.)

I'm not pretending. I just don't care, because I see menstruation as a natural bodily function that's no more disgusting than blowing your nose.

Menstruation isn't the issue. It's any blood. I refuse to believe many women want cups of blood being carried across the room. Someone mentioned dropping the mooncup down the loo, what if you dropped it whist carrying it when it's full. I really wouldn't want to get splashed with anyone else's blood because they wanted to prove a point.

Tipping a cupful of menstrual blood down a public sink is not OK at all.

HIV can be transmitted via menstrual blood for starters.

It also will pool in the sink u bend, just like it does in the more visible toilet bowl. You don’t really do this orchid, surely?

Hand dryers blow out faecal matter. Public toilets are gross and a bit of menstrual blood down the sink won’t give anyone HIV.

monchat it wasn't a pop at you. It was a direct comparison with how many men, and women find breast milk abhorrent and the thought of bf vomit inducing.

But here we are reading how educators are promoting shit eating, no promotion of positive breast feeding, or period blood positive messages. No, the vile stuff takes precedence, there are many that find menstrual blood disgusting and would be horrified to use moon cups.

However, I really think this should be normalised instead of demonising it.

Its all washed away, no woman is going to leave blood all over the sink,but I would happily do a dirty protest all over the mixed sex loo sinks, by tipping red colour cornflour water down sinks, and leaving it there.

Its all washed away, no woman is going to leave blood all over the sink

Really? I've gone in many ladies loos to find blood/piss on the seat/floor. Not all women clean up after themselves unfortunately. But these same women will clean the sink well when they pour the contents of their full mooncup down it? I don't think so.

However, I really think this should be normalised instead of demonising it.

Periods should be normalised, of course. But I still don't want to see people's bodily fluids being carried across a room and poured down a sink...to make a point. Many things are normal, we don't do them all in front of strangers.

but I would happily do a dirty protest all over the mixed sex loo sinks, by tipping red colour cornflour water down sinks, and leaving it there.

I just don't get this at all. It makes us, women, look pathetic and crazy. And we're not !

I have occasionally had the misfortune to come across some wet on floors, but I have never seen blood anywhere.

Never.

I don't like seeing a pool of blood at the bottom of the loo at first sight something dark lurking down the pan strikes me as a poo! Thats when I feel vomitty.

Nothing wrong with pouring it down sink and washing away.

I had to laugh at the teaspoon of blood. I pour away many full mooncups in a day, each being an eggcups worth. Theres no way thats only a teaspoon, even from just one emptying.

I have occasionally had the misfortune to come across some wet on floors, but I have never seen blood anywhere

Lucky you.

My cousin used to clean at an airport, she always says the state of the women's toilets shocked her.

Nothing wrong with pouring it down sink and washing away

Maybe to you, but I really don't want this to be a thing people do. I do not think I'm alone on this.

Apparently it's dawning on men that women, female teens and little girls will be using the 'with urinal' loos.

My sister in law and my two nieces (9 and 14) are keen to help that realisation to its conclusion.

Sorry to bump an old thread but I noticed this tweet:
mobile.twitter.com/MuseumToilets/status/1189135810609721345
They are Re-tweeting @museumhour

“Gender neutral loos- just like you have at hime”

I’m not on Twitter. I do have a nice safe loo in my home, I think the museum people haven’t conceived that many women aren’t so lucky..

Trying to pretend that going into a public space with strangers bears any similarity to being at home with family sharing facilities is just bare faced lying and manipulation.

Also, yes, children and women are [too often] at risk in their own homes/toilets too.

Just looked on their Twitter feed. They are crowing over looking after the needs of deaf visitors on other Twitter threads. I cannot believe that deaf women feel safer in mixed sex toilets than single sex ones .