Aug 26
I almost destroyed our breakfast together. I lost my temper, not my husband’s doing or intention but I reacted so violently to what he had said. I was so pissed.
While we were having breakfast, on his birthday, at the M restaurant of the hotel, Edmund was on his cellphone most of the time. He probably came across an article or forwarded messages about the use of women toilets by transgenders. He said when we renovate our showrooms, he would put in every stall a toilet bowl and a men’s urinal. Lahat daw ng toilet pare-pareho na lang. Wala ng pambabae, wala ng panlalaki.
My blood boiled to the max. I got extremely upset at him for saying that. I felt he was very inconsiderate of my feelings. All this time, I’ve been telling him about my sentiments when my favorite establishment opened the women’s toilets for men too. I felt he never listened to me pala when I was venting out my disappointments. All this time pala he was not listening to what I was saying. I thought he was on my side and understood my stand as a natural-born woman who choose to stay a woman, and who pees like a woman, and who doesn’t want to share toilets with men. When I say men, I AM REFERRING TO HUMANS WITH HOTDOGS, BIRDS, SAUSAGES. Regardless of how they choose to be called, my objection for using the same toilet is they stand-up when they pee. It can’t be helped that they sprinkle the floor and the toilet bowl, the seat, with their pee. This is nature’s design. Men cannot sit down while they are peeing.
Due to gender sensitivity, many establishments no longer devote exclusive toilets for each gender. Halo-halo na. And how about me? I demand equality too. Ayoko talaga to use toilets used by men too. I could tell the difference, mas madumi, tulo-tulo yung floor. I could spot the drips on the floor. Men don’t use toilet papers to wipe the toilet seat after peeing. They just wiggle their but and zip-up.
My husband’s intention for thinking of making all our toilets gender neutral was to protect women, that was his explanation. No, he should have said he would convert some stalls into gender-neutral, but retain some toilets EXCLUSIVELY for women. We have space, we can have one for women, one for men, and one for gender neutral. If we have no space at all, then we could only have one toilet for all.
I was so mad at him. I was on the verge of crying. I excused myself and left. I decided to walk outside, exchange some dollars into baht and walk to the Rolex store at the Central Embassy shopping mall. My tears started falling when I reached the money exchange.
I thought my husband pays attention when I am talking. No, he doesn’t.
