That’s a much better fix!
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My gov’t office building wasn’t quite that bad, but it did have waterless urinals, one of the most disgusting devices created by man. My ecofriendly attitude hit an exception. Gross, stinking, and unpleasant to use. I just used the regular toilet, which used much more water than a regular urinal would have.
Just wait. They’ll be installing EcoWad Waterless Toilets™ soon. AKA outhouses.
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The ones that they just… can’t… stop… thinking about. 
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I’ll add another vote in favor of the one-place-for-all theory. Back in the late 1980s in Richmond, I attended a small, offbeat public high school that occupied half of one floor of an old, traditional high high school. The toilets, as originally arranged, had the boys’ room at one end of the central hallway and the girls’ at the other. Since we only occupied half the floor, that effectively left us with only one toilet facility. Being mostly practical and more than a bit proud of our progressive-cum-subversive reputation, the students collectively decided that one was enough as it wouldn’t be fair to ask one sex to trek to the far end of the building.
Seemed to work just fine, though I don’t recall if word got out far beyond our small community. I’m not sure what the school board would have done there in the capitol of the confederacy had word of our unisex restroom reached them.
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There is a reason we named a type of woman’s under clothing after him.
I find it very strange as well. I’ve noticed stalls in the US are also not always very tall, like, below-eye-level tall if you’re 6 feet or taller. I do not really want to make any accidental eye contact with some dude as he’s curling one off.
I’m coming late to the party, but I have to add that the elegant art deco design of the men’s room of the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville may constitute entrapment.
Once as I was coming out I was met by a group of women–I assume–coming in. Its attractiveness to people regardless of gender is even acknowledged by a plaque on the wall next to the door.
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Back when my daughter was in elementary school, there was a school shooting somewhere and a group got together to up the security at our little school.
One of the new rules that got put into place was that everyone entering the school had to wear a sticker. There was a person whose job it became to hand out these stickers as people signed in.
I always thought it was patently absurd. As if some madman showing up armed to the teeth would come to a screeching halt, “OMG I have to sign in and wear a sticker???” I mean, no matter where you are at on the gun thing, you gotta admit that in the sticker vs. gun war, the sticker’s losing.
To me, this debate is very much of the same vein. Some creepy person is going around to women’s restrooms looking to rape, but he comes screeching to a halt because “OMG, it’s against the law for a man to enter a women’s restroom!”
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Why its almost as if none of this was actually about preventing assault!! /s
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In this guys defence, if someone dresses like a man, and caught at a glance, looks like a man, going into the womans washroom… it is worth checking if you actually care about protecting women. What if it was a man, but this guy kept walking and something bad happened to a woman inside?
He didnt insist she was wrong, or doing something wrong, he wasnt even rude… he stated that she dressed like a man, and that was why he thought a man went in the womans washroom. To be honest, he was probably pretty embarrassed to discover that it was indeed a woman. “Thats the shit we deal with”… dress like a man, get mistaken for a man.
If you do not ‘conform’ to societal norms, there WILL be cases of misunderstandings. Dont take offence, it is a honest mistake, not discrimination. Dont make a social incident of a honest mistake.
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My wife was at an event recently where the slightly creepy guy running it apparently went into the ladies bathroom to ‘check’ there wasn’t anyone in there that shouldn’t be.
Apparently he also made an uncomfortable ‘joke’ about imagining the audience naked to one of the younger female speakers.
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This is beyond tiresome 
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Like when some women insist on wearing trousers or operating a motor vehicle or walking into a voting booth.
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I could understand the confusion if someone drives into a voting both with a motor vehicle. But this wouldn’t be related to the sex of the operator : )
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Same for my wife at her last job. There was a sketchy business in her building that hired many women with poor life skills to answer phones. A few times a month, someone decided to see how many different types of bodily fluids could be smeared on the walls. I have seen some terrible restrooms but one weekend (when the building is basically empty) my wife made me look at someones handiwork. If I could of curled up fetal style in a shower, I would have. 
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Thanks for yet another fine example of this exact shit with which we have to deal. Not that we actually needed it, of course. Maybe you could throw in a couple of “Well if she wasn’t dressed that way” statements while you’re at it? You know, just to make the day complete.
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Nope, it was not a mistake, it was policing performed by a self-appointed bathroom monitor.
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OMG, I just might fluv you for that comment.
Yeah misunderstandings do happen, all the time.
For instance, if it had been me in that position and I opened the door to find some weird guy hovering outside the ladies’ room, I’d have been sufficiently freaked out enough to mace him… and that too would have been an “honest mistake,” no matter how I happened to be dressed at the time.
And by the way:
Dont take offence, it is a honest mistake…
A) There is no ‘c’ in the word offense in the US version.
B) You don’t get to dictate to others what they can and cannot be offended by.
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The time it nearly happened to me (because I was on the opposite side of the floor than usual), someone was actually holding the door shut. I don’t know if they saw me coming or what (it’s not like there’s a window on the door), or by coincidence, something had happened inside. But I was pushing on the door, trying to open it, before I noticed it was the wrong one.
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I’ve heard of it, but only once. Apparently it was some sort of spiteful action; that’s all I was told by corporate security, who had to get involved.
