Have you ever visited a restaurant or other public location and been perplexed by the gender designations on the restroom doors? Signs posted on the bathroom doors of a restaurant in Jaipur have now generated discussion online. A podcaster by the name of Ravi Handa posted pictures of the placards on Twitter, showing how similar they were.
Indicating a lady wearing a saree was the sign with the slanted red line, and a guy wearing a mundu was the sign with the straight red line coming down from the waist. An Indian eatery in the South had these signs up. In the caption, Mr Handa wrote, “Request to all restaurants – please start using English to indicate bathrooms. Stop relying on our fashion sense.”
Check out the tweet here:
Request to all restaurants – please start using English to indicate bathrooms.
Stop relying on our fashion sense. pic.twitter.com/Ms0bCQUf1A
— Ravi Handa (@ravihanda) March 3, 2023
In a follow-up tweet, he wrote, “For the few who don’t get it, Left with a slanted line is indicating a saari, so female. Right with a straight line coming down from the waist is indicating a lungi/dhoti/mundu, so male. Restaurant is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan.”
The social media users were confused by the signs. A user commented, ” lost it when I saw Mars and Venus at a pub 6 years ago.”
Another user wrote, “The most irritating trend! Especially after a drink or two it’s impossible to assess.”
The third user wrote, “I do not see a problem with this. The fact that men and women have different dresses is common knowledge. The imagery is confusing, that is correct. Someone may mistake their assigned washrooms. But I do not mind the sari and lungi comparison.”
“It’s actually a very gender sensitive sign. Anyone who wear Saaree etc can enter regardless of biological sex,” the fourth user remarked.
“Took me five minutes to identify,” the fifth user wrote.
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