more on bathrooms

Take a look at this bathroom cleaning chart in the Dominick’s restroom. I call it the “14 points of clean.” As you can see, the flow chart involves eight cleaning methods in 14 different areas of the bathroom. Nevermind that the restroom in question was quite small and featured the following: floor tile, sink, cabinet, [...]

Pic of the Week: Airport Restroom Sign

This is a cropped version of photo #75 out of 365 pictures this year. While trapped in the airport on Friday, and not flying anywhere, I noticed this restroom sign. Take a look: Person in Wheelchair, Woman with Child, Free Man. Of note, there was a baby changing area in the men’s room, and there [...]

Now really… would you go in this?

I can’t help it. Ever since new blogger Katie posted these I can’t stop thinking about the social implications. I even showed them to my class during a discussion on doing gender – and by extension “doing masculinity” or better “doing sexuality” in the men’s room. Specifically we talked about how urinal norms produce homophobic [...]

sociology of the port-o-potty

Here’s my fourth of july post. Yesterday me, my in-laws (mother and sister), and my partner all headed down to Grant Park to hear the orchestra celebration, complete with fourth of july eve fireworks. You know, the Great American songs like You’re a Grand Ole Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Stars and Stripes Forever (all hail [...]