How to insult 51% of the world’s population with a bathroom sign ?

Updates:

We are not allowing comments on this post anymore, because the situation got weird, people started being aggressive just because we talked about their favorite venue ! Actually we didn't even talk about the venue or insulted it, if you read well the post.

We are sorry that everyone missed out the big idea behind this post, we only wanted to say that representing women as a casserole is putting her back in the "kitchen" while hundreds of women from all around the world fight for their rights to work and go to universities. Lebanese women think they have it all, although if we think about it, we have nothing, we are not covered by any law. Maybe the designer wanted to be funny, but for ME and I repeat this is MY personal opinion, we cannot joke about sexism until it stops existing, and that is never, and that goes as well for racism and homophobia.

The bathroom signs were just a trigger, we then talked about educating children in Lebanon and that was the main subject of this post.

Anyway thank you for reading and commenting, even though it was negative ( mostly ), you only tripled our traffic ;) and then you proved us right : Lebanese will only fight for their right to party.

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Marie-Curie and Joan of Arc, Simone de Beauvoir and Amelia Earhart, Daw Aung Suu Kyi and Frida Khalo, Susan B. Anthony and Ella Fitzgerald, Margaret Sanger and your MOM. Were all diminished to a single illustration : A casserole !

Of course THE casserole every little girl should have in her little pink kitchen in her girly pink room where a beautiful blond Barbie lies on her pink bed sheets.  

And the men’s bathroom sign is a wrench! Of course, because all men should use tools, drink lots of beer, scratch their balls and burp.

We in Lebanon, think that we master the art of educating children. Whenever a couple is expecting a boy, the baby’s room start looking so manly that even Chuck Norris is afraid of going in…the blue walls, and blue sheets, with trains, cars and soldiers…in Lebanon we extend that with rifles, tanks and guns. This boy’s identity is prepared and wrapped in blue paper before he was even born. He has no right to chose, this boy might like to play with his sister’s dolls but his parents are so afraid that this will turn him gay so they won’t let him and vice versa, cute little girls with ponytails, pink dresses, ribbons and flowers, übergirly to like spiderman or football. If it was legal to inject boys with testosterone and breast feed the girls with estrogen, Lebanese parents wouldn’t hesitate a second.

And these kids grew up to be designers, and they designed these wonderful bathroom signs for the “warehouse” in Beirut. Can we blame them ? They were raised that way and unfortunately they didn’t educate themselves enough to know that it’s insulting to illustrate women as a casserole and men as a wrench, ( even though the rationale behind them, might be "things you find in a warehouse" )  believe me I know some girls who handle their tools like a plumber while their husbands are going oliver james on their casseroles.

I had enough of the stereotypes, I had enough of people using women as a sexual object in the kitchen, we, Lebanese, are always proud of ourselves, we claim to be civilized, open-minded, cultivated, it’s not partying like there’s no tomorrow or wearing beautiful branded clothes that makes us “Europeans”! It’s our culture, our respect for any other human being, and our social behavior that will turn us in Homo sapiens instead of the Australopithecus we still are. 

Picture : @Acidburn_TD ( Thank you @Acidburn_TD for inspiring me to write this post)