I cannot imagine what the atmosphere of a unisex bathroom would be like tbh. Women go into bathrooms to talk, do their hair and makeup, escape unwanted male attention, etc.

I was one in a night club bathroom for over an hour with a group of friends as we listened and gave (albeit drunken) advice to a friend who was being abused by her bf. I’m telling you, you haven’t seen female solidarity until you have witnessed women come up to complete strangers and open up about their experiences with abusive men in order to help another abused woman. < This happened a few times during our bathroom convo - and each woman left my friend feeling more hopeful about her own situation. A couple of these women shared really intimate things with my friend, and all showed genuine concern for her well-being. THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IN A UNISEX BATHROOM.

How would we have been able to slag men off if it were a unisex bathroom? How would we have been able to have that conversation with men coming and going? How would we have been able to get a single word in with all the males mansplaining their point of view on the situation? Would the other women have felt comfortable enough to open up to my friend about their experiences if men were around?



It might be sad, but it’s true: female only bathrooms are sometimes a sanctuary for vulnerable women.

And that’s just the dark tip of the very large and very secretive iceberg that is female culture. In female only spaces there is also open discussions about: periods, pregnancy, birth, contraception, makeup, sex, men, politics (the female pov that very rarely gets heard when men are around), and a ton of other topics that we feel too self conscious to talk about around men. Many (I’d argue most) of us only really voice our genuine opinions with other women, this is why women-only spaces are still important to have, including bathrooms.