Men are from Mars, Women are from The Land of Entitlement

Yeah, you read that right.

I am currently house managing the annual Chicago production of The Santaland Diaries. It's a great gig, and a lot of fun, but one of the less glamorous aspects of the job is clearing out the bathrooms before and after each performance. I don't have to scrub the sinks and toilets; I just empty the plastic garbage bins--each stall has its own garbage bin, and there are two larger garbage bins by the sinks--as well as the small steel catch-all under the paper-towel dispenser, and make sure that each stall has enough toilet paper. That kind of thing.

I clean both bathrooms before the shows, while the shows are in progress, and after the performances are over and the patrons have left. Every single year, I am reminded of this fact: women are pigs. They throw used paper towels on the floor, they leave puddles of pump soap on the sinks, they abandon empty cardboard toilet paper rolls on the floor *right next to the garbage can in their stall* instead of putting it IN the garbage can. They leave used tampons in the toilets *and don't flush*. This is not outlier data; this is every fucking night.

Men, on the other hand, leave a near-spotless bathroom. Paper towels in the bins, nothing on the floors of the stalls, no unflushed toilets.

I can only theorize about why women do this. My guess? They paid to see a show, so they have the expectation that someone will clean up after them. In their minds this somehow translates to not maintaining even the bare minimum of courtesy for those who will clean up after them.

Gentlemen--you have my undying gratitude. Ladies--are you for fucking real?