A round red sticker has appeared on the door of the women's and wheelchair-accessible restroom at the public service station, reading: "Menstrual restroom. Place suitable for storing pads and tampons." woke. Thank you very much. Lucky you.
If they were referring to a sink adapted for washing the menstrual cup without having to leave the urinal with the device in hand, so as not to cause it to drip all the way to the sink at the entrance, they would have said so. They would have indicated that there is a tap inside, for example, like in the restrooms in certain kingdoms, where they don't waste toilet paper and use the trickle of water. Saying it's a suitable place to deposit pads and tampons means it's a traditional restroom, where there's a wastebasket, sometimes covered, sometimes uncovered. I find it somewhat optimistic that a restroom is considered menstrual because there's a wastebasket. It's like when in towns they put up a sign that says "Route of the Viewpoints," and it's because there's a path with several railings from which you can look out over the beautiful ravine.
If a bathroom is considered menstrual because there's a wastebasket suitable for menstrual pads, we should also call it a "menopausal bathroom" if the wastebasket can hold pads for light leaks. We could also call it a "sanitizing bathroom," given that there's also an automatic hand dryer suitable for this very necessary and advisable act of washing and drying your hands. Above all, I would call it a "personal bathroom," because menstrual bathrooms, unlike non-menstrual bathrooms, usually have urinals with doors. I consider it a terrible discrimination that our non-menstrual partners have to pee next to each other, glancing sideways at each other's potty and shaking themselves communally.
