There's a parody of the Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry
Gentlemen" called "The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen". In short, the
singer enters the wrong bathroom after some prankster switches the
signs, where he finds "two nuns, three old ladies, and a nurse" who turn
on him before he's realized what's going on. It's played for laughs,
but considering he meant no harm and didn't even begin to do anything
threatening, it hardly seems fair that he's hit with a can of mace and a
handbag before he even gets half a chance to explain himself. Ending up
with "two black eyes and one high heel up [his] behind" feels like
something he ought to be pressing charges for. I get that men are
expected to stay out of the women's bathroom, and vice versa (though
apparently to a lesser extent, given that most people seem to be
generally fine with women using the men's room when the women's room is
crowded), but that reaction seems a bit excessive. Yet he might have
problems even trying to go to the authorities, since the laws in some
places are such that he's committed a crime just by walking through that
door. That honestly shocked me when I first heard about it. Social
disapproval is one thing, but legal prohibition? What a waste of law
enforcement.
Which brings me to what led to this posting, though I've been
sitting on it for a few months.
