After stepping off our Air France flight at Paris CDG Airport, we made a restroom stop in the arrivals hall. It was there Heidi encountered a reminder that there are still certain assumptions attached to motherhood and being female.
My Wife Is Outraged By The Restrooms At Paris CDG Airport
Claire Marie, still in diapers at the time (she thankfully was fully-trained before her third birthday, which has been a huge relief), needed a change.
So Heidi directed Claire Marie to go with daddy into the bathroom and informed me that diapers and wipes were in the little bag she was toting around.
Yes ma’am.
But small problem: the mens’ restroom had no changing area for diapers. When I informed Heidi, she was indignant and almost went over to check herself (after all, I often have trouble finding things in plain sight).
But after looking once more just to be sure, including in the handicapped stalls, I confirmed there was no changing table. So I handed Claire Marie over to Heidi, who changed her…somewhat indignantly.
As we walked out toward the lounge, she lamented, half-jokingly, that despite its progressive reputation, France is still pretty old school if men’s restrooms do not have changing tables for babies.
As for me, I thank the French for giving me a break. 😉
Was this just a one-off at Paris CDG or are baby changing stalls still predominantly located only in female restrooms in France?
Changing diapers is woman’s work. Maybe there’s hope for France afterall. A real Alpha like me never changes diapers. Once my wife asked me to change a diaper, and I told her to get in the kitchen and make me a sammich!
I’ve never seen a real alpha feel the need to call themselves a ‘real alpha’. That’s something an unreal alpha would do.
In France it would be an alfa anyway.
D*#k!
All this fuss over a silly changing table? I was expecting her to be outraged over the much larger issue here, the absence of a non-binary restroom.
I think the abscence of a changing table in the mens bathroom is a much larger issue as it could affect about 50% of same sex couples going through the airport which is millions of people a year as opposed to non binary bathrooms which affects less than 1% of the general population. im actually for nonbinary bathrooms in general, just saying its a smaller problem than the diaper thing
You’re born with XX or XY chromosomes, there aren’t any other combinations. That’s your sex.
In any couple with any “gender” combination 1 is the “male” (the one who fuck) and one is the “female” (the one fucked by the male).
So the one playing Female role can go to female toilet for a diaper change.
What do you expect? Have toilets for male / female / gay / lesbian / trans / non binary / and much mire? The toilets would be bigger than the airport.
There are a number of people that are born with X, XXY, XYY, XXX, and even XXXY, XXYY, XXXX and others – otherwise known as “aneuploidy”. One in 500 “males” are XXY (Klinefelter syndrome). Some people are XY and outwardly female (Androgen insensitivity syndrome – or Swyer syndrome). These types of issues are probably widely underestimated in the population, as many of them may never have a reason to find out they have a genetic difference (you may even have one yourself and have no idea). Even with low estimations, this means that there are at least 7 million people in the world that are XXY (250,000 in the US alone), just as one example.
Biological life is not as simple as we all would like to think it is. Rarely is life so binary as we assume it is.
same sex couples shouldn’t have children.
Neither should couples who are full of ignorance and hate but …
I think the abscence of a changing table in the mens bathroom is a much larger issue as it could affect about 50% of opposite sex couples going through the airport which is millions of people a year as opposed to non binary bathrooms which affects less than 1% of the general population. im actually for nonbinary bathrooms in general, just saying its a smaller problem than the diaper thing
Americans always shocked to learn things are different outside America and then link that to being ‘behind’ America…
Which, of course, I never did.
He/Him here. I’m a man and change all the diapers. I also wear panties myself. I would never use the word “wife” as it could misgender someone.
See, now this is terrible. This person must have drank bud light and became a Nancy. I recommend you do something manly like punch a wall or wrestle a bear to straighten yourself out. I know everytime I feel funny thoughts I go roll coal on a prius to suppress my non-alpha urges
Average Democrat is funnier.
Of course it is. This average Democrat fellow Is clearly a joke. I’m the real deal Alpha. If you think I’m trying to joke around about my masculinity I may suggest you are a beta cuck. Nick Adams for president!
You’re trying too hard
Another little boy who deep down feels the need to over compensate for what they know they do not have.
And just so you know, everyone else in the world knows you don’t have it too.
If you don’t mind Nick Adams had affairs with both Robert Conrad and was Elvis’ boytoy.
Lol.
Wait, isn’t CM at least 3 years old now? Why is she still wearing diapers?
She was out of them before her third birthday so we don’t have to borrow yours anymore.
Boom, roasted
So why are people so shocked it’s their country not ours! And as far as he/him goes I for one really don’t care just don’t put in my face.
I talked to a cleaning person at CDG and she insisted that there are toilets with baby changing facilities available to men too at the airport.
I can assure you there were not, at least here.
All the restrooms at CDG have changing facilities. Matthew was just trying to get out of diaper duty. One of the oldest tricks in the book.
I honestly burst out laughing.
If only I were that clever!
Here, there was no changing table.
Of course there wasn’t.
*wink* *wink*
Oy, the Americans abroad,
Germans.
Isn’t it three German-Americans and one American?
Time Out Market in Montreal has a large unisex bathroom. Obviously no urinals, just stalls. I’ve seen this in restaurants before, but never a large public place.
It probably could have been signed better because if you wanted in and only saw a single gender at the sinks, you could easily think you walked into a bathroom just for that gender.
I do feel sorry for the women because men aren’t known for their aim when they pee into toilets.
Living and traveling in the US with my boys, bathrooms didn’t have changing areas more often than not. When the wife was around it was fine, but when i was solo I would revert to the floor (covered in paper towels) or go back to my car to do it.
I don’t know which surface would be more filthy – a public restroom changing table, the floor, or the back seat of your car.
I would’ve though you’d be the right person to know, as you’ve been face down in all three of those locations.
The newer French facilities have often changing rooms seperate from either male or female facilities – quite often located in the disabled washrooms as they are bigger so that you can wheel in with the stroller – or they provide a drop-down table in either the male or female washroom if they are not unigender to begin with. Yet as always, change is slow – so it may take a while for it to spread to all areas of CDG. I’d chalk that up to ageing infrastructure paired with slow modernization and not to a particular proclivity of the French.
The comments on this one are hilarious. Also Matthew you didn’t need an excuse to not change the diaper. You just TELL her to do it.
The most hilarious thing about bathrooms in Europe had to be the men’s bathroom at AMS airport. You are there doing your business at the urinal and a cleaning lady comes in and she has absolutely no problem in just start cleaning the urinal next to me. She couldn’t care less if there were men peeing in the bathroom. She was just doing her job.
Let me guess. Once she came in you took a few steps back mid-stream to show off your range?
GFY!!
Ha.
I’m reminded of an incident that happened about a week ago. We were out to a local shopping plaza and my wife said nature called so I found the unisex bathroom and send her in. A couple with a small child came by and she started changing the child on the floor outside. I told her that my wife was in the bathroom and I’d be happy to knock on the door and have her let her in and she declined. I found it kind of strange and anti-social in that folks would be happy to help but she didn’t want to accept any and preferred to struggle.
That being said, perhaps until recently or so, maybe French women strangely are a bit more traditional than the states in that due to the social programs, the women get generous paid maternity leave so they become housewives more often and look after the kids while the men work. American women (more often) must work so the men are forced to pitch in or there are increasing numbers of single fathers around.
Did you look for the family restroom?
We’ve raised two kids in France and have been through CDG about 100 or so times (literally, we travel a lot). I did at least half the diaper changing, as my wife can attest. I don’t recall if CDG has changing tables in the men’s rooms, but I know I’ve seen them elsewhere in France.
Ya bawring …
+1 for no all gender toilettes