NOTE: This post has been changed since it was first published

Women around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies' restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an "occupy" movement in southern China.

The target of the protest is an unassuming men's bathroom in a public park in Guangzhou, where a group of female activists in their 20s gathered outside this weekend with colorful placards to protest unequal wait times outside men's and women's public bathrooms. As crowds of onlookers began to form, the women began marching inside the men's bathroom to make their point -- much to the dismay of the men still inside.

The protest's instigator is a young woman, alias Li Maizi, who got frustrated by the interminable wait to use the toilets while attending a conference in Guangzhou. She and her supporters are calling for the government to provide more public toilet stalls for women. She says the protest took about a week (in Chinese) to organize and that her next stop on her journey to promote the cause is Beijing.

In an argument that later circulated on popular Twitter-like microblogging site Sina Weibo, a sympathetic student from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies told the state-run Guangzhou Daily newspaper (in Chinese) that mainland China should learn from Hong Kong and Taiwan -- both of which have passed so-called "potty parity" laws, mandating that greater areas be designated for female toilets.