A defense of the vandalism of public restroom facilities
Within the present paper I aim to add to the discussion of how women are still by and large suffering from ideological oppression despite substantial progress in conceptually re-engineering notions of gender. I will be utilising both the work of Iris Marion Young in relation to Sartre’s practico-inert realities, coupled with Haslanger’s hierarchically defined gender analysis to argue the built environment, and more specifically, public restroom facilities, act as a practico-inert that persistently constrains aspects of action by perpetuating oppressive past-praxis and ideologies of gender. Due to the placement of baby-change apparatuses I will claim these facilities bear some responsibility for the current subordination of women, and ought to be disrupted, via political vandalism, in order to offer a counter-speech to the problematic and normative embedded ideology in such material spaces.