Below these three icons you see some braille.

⠗⠑⠌⠗⠕⠕⠍⠎

…It says “restrooms” in English. In fact it even uses ⠌ as an abbreviation of “st”, something only done in English and Irish braille.

You then place your fingertip on the braille. It isn’t actually raised.

You then realize that it isn’t even plural restrooms in the first place, it’s single-user.

  • buh [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    24 days ago

    The bathrooms where I work are like this, all single occupancy but gendered anyways. The funny part is the company is like 90% male so a lot of the guys end up using women’s bathroom sometimes because the men’s one is often occupied. Doesn’t stop them from raising a stink whenever they hear a story on the news about someone else using the “wrong” bathroom.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOP
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      24 days ago

      Oh, no, the restroom at the fast food place wasn’t gendered, all three icons were on the same door. However I did recently spend a lot of time at this shitty welfare contractor where indeed they had gendered single-occupant restrooms, so I absolutely know what that’s like.

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      24 days ago

      Some at school are like this, but there are only women’s and neutral bathrooms. I think it’s because those bathrooms have tampons or something, else it’s just a ploy for women to cut in line.