This story in the Huffington Post made me smile. Pentahotels has labelled the toilet doors in one of its branches as shown in the picture below.
As you can probably guess, this was perfectly OK (and passably amusing) until it was noticed by a professional feminist and complainist – in this case, someone called Cassie Chadderton – who is “head of UK Theatre”.
She demands to know if Pentahotels know that we are “in the 21st century”.
In a further tweet to an unrepentant Pentahotels, she says that they are “reinforcing outdated gender stereotypes”.
No they’re not, Cassie. They’re using a very valid generalisation. You can pretend that women are the same as men all you want, but the reality is that – in general – the signs make a realistic distinction between male and female toilets based on a realistic generalisation of the very real general differences between the sexes.
They could have painted a penis on one door and a vagina on the other, and Cassie Chadderton (or some other obnoxious person of similarly flawed character) would probably have seen that as an “outdated gender stereotype”, too.
Plenty of men don’t like football, but I doubt that they’re offended by having to use a toilet stall with a door which implies that they do. It’s only feminists and serial complainists who seem to see offence in things like this – and who, incidentally, are happy to stereotype everyone they disagree with as “sexist”.