The most manly of men wear kilts and change diapers. I vote we use this to move toward a new standard of masculinity.

All the rest rooms (men's and women's) in the Engineering 2 building at UCSC have baby-changing stations.

Actually it is really kind of funny. Of course I know, they used the sign for they most properly didn't have any sign with a stick figure, which we relate to a man. (And of course that kind of reflect that to care for children is still related to women only.) But on the other side, why do we make a fuzz about it? We should be open to men who like to wear skirts or may be on the sign they wanted to portray a man, who wears a Scottish kilt. :)

And just a small notice: Is it just me, or does the link to "stick figures and stick figures who parent" not work?

To be fair, they probably couldn't find clip art of a male washroom icon changing a baby. (I doubt the designer had the talent or inclination to draw their own.) Which is a whole other kettle of wax...

I live in Baltimore, and I wear a kilt. I don't have any babies to change yet, but when I do, I will totally do it in a kilt.

Happily, many stores and restaurants now have changing tables in the men's room as well as women's. Perhaps the issue of the kilt-wearing dad could be solved by just showing a baby wearing a diaper, indicating a baby-friendly facility.

Heehee.

Ok, so which one of the kilt-wearing guys is going to do a reenactment and link to a pic?

Sooo...As a woman I am allowed to go in the men's restroom if I need to change a baby?

Well it gives female perverts with babies (or convincing dolls) a good excuse for the judge.

I got really puzzled at the musée Georges Pompidou in Paris when I wanted to change my baby's diaper. I had the choice between a female bathroom with no changing table, or the men's bathroom with a changing station?! I first thought it was a mistake. I finally opted for the men's room, where I entered for the first time!

My boyfriend thinks it's because a man in the women's room would freak out people more, if ever a dad needs to change his baby diaper, while a woman in the men's room is more acceptable.

i'm sitting at the cafeteria of a german university and the exact same situation is the case here: there is a baby diaper-changing room in the mens' toilet, and the sign on that door clearly shows a lady with a skirt changing the diapers of a baby. i recognized this yesterday, and found it just funny, thinking that that sign (human being changing diapers) was available only with a woman, so they just had to go with it.

Clothing is used as a "sign" of the gender of a person, as we all know. But what we forget is how quickly the signs change. As an example, think of how only two generations ago a woman wearing pants was a transvestite. I was watching "The Great Race" a 1965 Hollywood movie with Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. It struck me how in congruent it was for Natalie to portray a Suffragette and yet constantly wear very elaborate clothes or sexy costumes (as in the pie throwing scene). Of course the whole movie is a farce.
I am very familiar with diaper changing facilities in men's bathrooms but I appreciate the irony of having a "female" sign. The discussion about kilts is paradoxical, too. At the court of Louis XIV the courtiers wore clothing that today would not be regarded as very manly.

El pantalon es el mayor atentedo contra la virilidad. Ninguna parte del cuerpo del hombre se maltrata y magulla mas que los genitales. Lo mas indicado, y adecuado para un varon es una falda o un vestido con falda; por salud y comodidad