Barcelona feminists print guide to where women can urinate in the street

Barcelona feminists print guide to where women can urinate in the street
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By h.b. - Oct 7, 2008 - 7:50 AM

Photo from You Tube

The woman ask why men can urinate with pride while for them it is a subject of shame.

A women’s collective in Barcelona, Subcity, has published a map of where you can, as a woman, urinate in the street. The map indicates 14 places in the city centre in the Plaza Real and Eixample areas among others.

La Vanguardia reports the women are calling their campaign ‘Pixing’, and say it is a ‘feminist fight to protest at the lack of public conveniences in the city’. What’s more they complain that the few public conveniences in service are always filthy because of the actions of the ‘ruling macho’.

‘Why do men have to do it so proudly, while for us it is a symbol of shame?’, they complain on their Internet blog.
Each location where there is ‘a certain security to urinate discretely’ is marked with a red star on the map which is being handed out to the public at night. The campaign also has a series of photos on YouTube.

The Guardia Urbana in Barcelona warn that urinating in the street in Barcelona, whatever your sex, carries a 180 € fine.

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