Bees have a stinger, and “bird” has been a slang term for a woman (like, what, 1920-1950s?).
Regards, I agree that’s needlessly vague, and just about to the point of useless.
Birds have peckers
Wow, how did I miss that??
The only bees with stingers are the female ones, though.
Fine, Bs represent bra size so that’s the women’s room, and a cock is a bird, so that’s the men’s room.
Any way you slice it, these signs don’t help.
A tit is a bird though
So is a Booby
As is a cock.
I give up I’m going to go piss in the kitchen
Dishes done.
Wtf
Alternate comment: I love how you need to internalize 100 years of sexism before you can relieve yourself
Harmless old slang terms are now sexist. Got it.
I’m pretty sure it was sexist back then too. It’s just that nobody cared.
Googled it real quick and it’s from the French Burd, meaning noblewoman
So… No?
Interesting. I didn’t know the words origins. I’ve always considered it alongside the classic English tradition of referring to women as various animals.
This isnt a uniquely female experience. Men commonly refer to their friends as “dog”. Also, in the gay community, men’s body types are equated to animals such as “bear,” “otter,” and “cub”.
Odd that so many people are coming out the woodwork to say they didn’t know Britons fairly often call women birds.
Thank you for the explanation.
As someone not too familiar with American cultures, I’d probably make an assumption and go for the (to me) more masculine bird over the docile and flower loving bee, since bees have stingers that they normally would never use and birds have beaks/peckers.
I’ve only ever heard bird used as working class slang for a woman in Britain.
Hmm, well, I have heard women being compared to singing birds (or more degrading as vultures or pen of hens if in group), but I’ve more often heard women being romantically compared to bees or flowers. Though, I don’t think I’ve ever heard men being compared to bees, but often to birds (eagles, vultures, seagulls, etc.).
Might also be local culture, as I usually think of harmony, nature, and perhaps matriarchy when pondering bees, while birds seem much more gender neutral, like, standoff-ish, elegant, brutal, impulsive, egoistic, even presented as predatory and evil in children movies and some media.
So, using common stereotyping, you can see where I’m coming from.
Women are Bees. Men are Birds. Arrhenotoky OP.
Of the 60,000 bees in a hive, almost 99% of them are female! Female honey bees, or worker bees, make all of the decisions in the hive and do all of the work. There are a couple hundred male bees in a hive, but they don’t do much but sit around and eat food.
Thats a little to common sense for the average American.
I’d wager bees are boys, for bathroom purposes, cause boys have a “stinger”
Same thought different reasoning: the expression “a bees dick” exists. There’s no equivalent for birds.
A birds pecker?
average American… for bathroom purposes,… boys have a “stinger”
Exhibit A!
Maybe this isn’t in America.
That said, if it was in the UK, ‘birds’ would be for women, so the result would be the same.
Just select one, if you are wrong, say you are trans.
/s
Anarchist answer: They’re both unisex - bees for pees, birds for turds.
ngl I’d shit in the bees stall bc the other one probably nasty af
Hmm… You might be onto something here
Yes, this establishment’s blacklist.
At least they’re not charging people to use these bathrooms. Then you’d be kicked out of a fine establishment.
Do I have to hold my pee while I’m pooping until I can get to the other bathroom?
You don’t already?!??
I would say they’re unisex and just pick one.
Honey this is an Applebee’s, shit wherever you want.
Especially in the microwave. Adds flavor.
That’s an easy one. Just wait for someone to come out and you’ll know the answer.
If Spongebob has taught me anything, it’s that that won’t work.
Androgyny person leaves.
But what if they didn’t know and just winged it themselves?
Haha, winged, like a bird.
… oh my god
No, winged like bees.
No, wings like “love take me down to the streets”
Find a member of staff and ask where the “human bathrooms” are. Don’t let them leave until they explain. Bonus points if you piss your pants while they are trying to explain.
Look them intensely in the eye as piss streams down your leg to establish dominance.
Better piss on their leg to mark your territory
One of the most uncomfortable episodes.
I had to look it up. Am I correct in thinking this was a transphobic episode?
“Excuse me sir/madam, I am looking for the human bathroom as I need to pour out some liquid from inside of my body through my urethra, something we humans normally do.”
Just look for the one with a line (queue) outside.
Or be fair and pee half in each.
Or be chaotic and scrawl “Mammals” on the wall and pee under that.
Birds eat worms, so it’s down to sexual preference.
Birds also poop out the seeds they eat that helps spread them, while bees rub themselves all over the flower, covering themselves with pollen before moving on to the next flower.
Not sure that helps answer the question, though.
Bees have stingers, birds have peckers…
Slang for women is “chicks” and a bit more archaic, “birds” too.
Bees have a…stinger? Dunno about that one.
_prick /prĭk/ noun
… A small, sharp, local pain, such as that made by a needle or bee sting … A pointed object, such as an ice pick, goad, or thorn. _
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Suppose calling men bees is more polite than calling them pricks…
Aren’t most bees female though?
They are. Hence confusion with the signage.
Doesn’t matter, just wash you hands when you’re done
don’t pee on the seat and flush would be my priorities
this is how i feel when a website presents me with a gender prompt with only two options
Hole or pole?
Void or avoid?
This is literally the only reason I’m considering a PhD: I can put “Dr.” on official documents and it’ll be accepted.
Or when a webform requires an honorific and none of them is suitable. (I’ll usually pick “Honorable”)
I love it when serious companies make it a text field, and i get my bills in a letter adressed, in all sincerity, to: Intergalactic Lord Emperor GoosLife
At work we used the department field for outrageous addressees
It’s not the right answer, but all the same, my head said:
Queen bees and Dodo birds
… - I think that checks out.
If you carry and deposit pollen - use the Bees, if you are laying eggs - use the Birds, else use the floor.
But bees also lay eggs, and birds also carry and deposit pollen
Also male birds don’t lay eggs 🥚🥚
And only the queen bee lays eggs, any bee out and foraging around is a sterile female.
Isn’t it mostly just hummingbirds that would get involved with pollen? Or are there others?
But bees are almost only females
Yeah, males are the drones.
To be honest, the gender binary makes even less sense for bees (as well as wasps, ants, hornets, termites, and other hive insects) than it does for humans.
Hive insects have three sexes: queens (analogous to females), drones (analogous to males), and workers (which could be analogous to intersex people, but it doesn’t really translate into human biology).