Tonight I want to talk about something that has completely baffled me since as long as I can remember. It is an issue that is pretty much overlooked by most of society, yet it could very well be, far in the future, how we are remembered. I am talking about men's room bathroom stalls.
If you are unfamiliar with this, then you either have never used a public bathroom, or are a girl. Granted, I do not know if the women's bathroom stalls have such "art" within them, but I can feel fairly certain that if it does exist, it is not nearly as bad as the men's. Having been a glorified janitor at Meijer, I did see, at least a small sample of the stall art in the women's restrooms and in comparison, it is virtually non- existant.
To those of you unfamiliar, let me paint you a picture. You go into pretty much any public restroom, sit down in the stall and all of the sudden you are transported to a claustrophobic would filled with countless people's fear and angst depravity. Scrawled along the walls are almost always multiple referenced to sex or sucking dick, sometimes you'll be lucky enough to find drawings, or even carvings of these acts, crudely drawn of course. You continues to look around and naturally find the obligatory "for a good time call" followed by a random phone number that usually is real and connects you to a real person who often times had no idea their number was scrawled on a bathroom stall.
You'll see places where people, either the establishment, or someone who got offended, tried to cover over profanities or whatever, but it is always in vain. Once one thing gets erased, it is quickly replaced by something else, a drawing of a penis, or a swastika.
Amongst all the vulgarity and drawings of cocks shooting sperm everywhere, you will often see references to God or Jesus. It is as if someone is trying to preach to and save the souls of the depraved who write on these stalls. It does say something, that God and Jesus can be found in the most awful of places, but it really only adds to the problem. People shouldn't write anything at all and bringing God or Jesus into the mix only ultimately leads to things like. "Jesus sucks cock." or "Fuck God" Whatever message the well-meaning have tried with their deities is lost amongst the unstoppable force of the stall artists.
You will always find someone, who thought it'd be a good idea to write their name, followed by, was here. Now I don't know if that is a carry over from childhood or what, but what I do know is that every time you see that, you will inevitably see that the HERE is crossed or carved out and is ALWAYS replaced by the word gay. Now, set aside for a minute that saying someone was gay doesn't even make any sense, that isn't was concerns me most about that. Grammar and spelling have gone out the window long ago for these denizens of bathroom art. Hell, just tonight I saw something in a stall that said Suck my dick Niger. Now perhaps they were talking about the African country, but I highly doubt that is what they were trying to express.
What concerns me the most, what really just defies all logic, is the two most common things found on the wall of a bathroom stall. The second most common thing is the word gay, or references to gay, but the most common, the absolute MOST frequently seen thing on stall walls, are penises, dicks, cocks. All shapes and sizes, squirting cum, pissing, doing any manner of things. Some drawn with great detail, others look like a child drew them, in some ways it is fascinating. I just don't understand though, because the men's room stall is perhaps one of the most racists,sexist,immoral and especially homophobic single place you will ever enter in your life, yet the most common thing you see is cocks. So, the people who draw these things hate gays and everything remotely related to them, but they are more than happy to add another penis to the already penis infested wall?
I don't get it at all, frankly I don't even understand what makes you want to write anything at all. I have never been sitting in a bathroom thinking, "Man I should draw something." Much less thinking I should draw a dick shooting cum into somebody's face. What is wrong with people? I guess I understand how somebody may think it is funny, and admittedly every now and then you will see clever bathroom art, but mostly it simply becomes an outlet for the worst in people.
A thousand years from now, if many of our great cities have become rubble and some alien race, or even our future generations, excavate the ruins of those cities, they may find great lost works of architecture, wonderful remnants of the good in humanity, art and music and pictures, all of those may be found. What will most assuredly will be found is at least one of two bathroom stall walls, the hard plastic they are made from will probably last forever. Those walls, could then become our legacy, modern cave paintings, left for the future to discover. What would they think? Would they be happy to know the so and so was here, but so and so was also gay? Would they appreciate the detailed way in which someone drew a hairy nutsack? Doubtful, they may get a little chuckle from the whole thing, but then they'd probably shake their heads and think, no wonder that society failed. No wonder those people aren't around anymore.
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