Woman sparks debate after using men's toilet because women's line was 'too long'
A woman who suffers from a debilitating illness that requires her to have quick access to a restroom has sparked a debate after revealing how she used a male toilet because there was a huge queue at the women's in the mall. The 23-year-old said that as she entered the restroom, where there were no other people, she heard someone shouting something. Her friend had offered to stand at the door while she was using the facility.
But when she came out, she told fellow users of Reddit, she found her friend having an argument with a few other women, with one of them calling her "entitled" before telling her that she "can't just cut the line". Her friend told the others that they should mind their own business and it was an emergency, which prompted one of the women to tell her "if you can’t hold it and wait in line like the rest of us, you should just wear a diaper when you go out".
The woman, who suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, said: "I have very unpredictable instances where I need access to a restroom immediately and there is no holding it. I’ve had about two or three humiliating instances in public that I really wasn’t looking to repeat. I experienced a sharp pain in my stomach and knew exactly what it meant.
On leaving the toilet she encountered the confrontation and added: "I really did not want to explain that I was two seconds away from s******g myself, so I just took my friends hand and walked away even though I was p****d. I’m not confrontational at all and figured the mature thing to do would be just to walk away."
She said she called her sister looking for some sympathy and to be able to have a rant about what had happened, but she also said the woman was in the wrong, claiming it was "inappropriate" and that while she understands her sister needed to go, she suggested that she could have cut the line anyway and gone into a stall in the woman's bathroom, "which I believed would have been incredibly rude". She added: "If I was able to hold it, I absolutely would’ve waited in line. Yes, waiting in line when you have to use the bathroom is uncomfortable, but it’s part of being an adult. I would not have done this in any other circumstance, but I had no choice, so am I the a*****e?"
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Other users of the site said they agreed with what she had done and that the women who confronted her should have had some empathy, given her condition. One person said: "Not the a*****e. Jeez, people get so bent out of shape about bathrooms and gender! In Europe lots of public restrooms are gender-neutral. No one cares who is in a stall, they do their business, wash their hands, and leave."
And another said: "Imagine being so painfully lacking in empathy that you'd prefer for a stranger to s**t themselves, rather than for them to be able to make use of a toilet that you weren't queueing for and didn't want to use yourself," while another said: "Not the a*****e. What woman hasn't gone into the men's at some point? Look, if the line is long and there are no men nearby who want to go in, any woman is justified in using the men's. A toilet is a toilet. Add in the IBS and you are even more justified."
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