There is much excitement among washroom-watchers as a new Royal Ontario Museum exhibit on exploring gender diversity in ancient Japan has inspired the ROM to open a set of gender-neutral toilets. The story doesn’t say but it seems this means that you can’t lock the door behind you the way you do at home or at Starbucks. The new inclusion means men are denied that male sport of standing while they urinate. Urinals are covered with plastic caps. The CBC story has an air of emancipation about it. Hallelujah brothers and sisters. Will the ROM be counting how many men, as opposed to women, venture into these new come-one-come-all rooms? We’re thinking not too many women except maybe the adventurous kind. CBC
