Men banned from (some) toilets


Feb 24th 2010, 15:17 by A.B. | LONDON

All Nippon Airways (ANA) is to introduce women-only toilets on some of its international routes from March 1st. Men will only be allowed to use these toilets in certain situations:

– When required for safety reasons, just prior to the seat belt sign being turned on during take-off and landing.
– When a passenger is not feeling well and a personal emergency requires such use.
– When there are very few female passengers and the women-only designation has been lifted for the flight.

Not wishing to overstate the importance of this story, Gulliver would still point out that ANA is effectively enshrining in its aircraft infrastructure the idea that men are the messier sex—at least when it comes to toilet habits. And he can't quite work out whether that's sexist, funny or both.
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