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A warm up for a long fight against millions of restroom signs?

Flippancy aside, the icon in question doesn't even look that nice in context.. a simple silhouette of two "generic" people would certainly look nicer.

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it's true. the restroom sign has come up a lot as i've shopped this question around to my friends. i think it's a spot on point. sexism seems primarily to be discussed in the media when extremely heinous things go down. but i think it's equally import to look at the banal, everyday manifestations of it. including bathroom signs. what does going to the bathroom have to do what we wear on our bottom half anyhow. we all drops our pants in order to use the facilities, regardless of gender.

It's an easily recognizable icon that indicates which room to use and doesn't rely on which language you speak. For English speakers M and F might be just as easy, but which would you use of حمام للرجال and حمام للنساء?

Funny story about this is I was in an Irish-themed bar here in the UK and the toilets didn't have symbols but Irish words.

I was in a rush and saw "Mna" and "Fir". Mna sounded like a drunken "man" so I went with it. Once I'd finished my business, however, I noticed there were no urinals and it was the women's toilets. I had to laugh.

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