For the second time a Meijer grocery store in my area had a peeper in the womens restroom. At this one, the guy was shoving his cell phone under the stall doors. So yeah, some people do like to peep. They just arrested the guy so it happened in the last week.
Right, but the Meijer peeper probably didn't have a little girl w/ him.
I think there's a difference between some random lone guy in the women's restroom & a dad w/ his little girl in the women's restroom.
Regarding the gaps, realistically, unless someone is standing right there at the gap or peering over the stall or under the stall or shoving their cell phone camera under the stall, what can a person actually see? At the most, you can tell a person is in the stall, but you can't really see the person and any private parts.
I do get that many women would be very uncomfortable w/ a man in the women's restroom though. Like I said in my earlier post, I haven't encountered it yet. I'm sure I'd be a bit taken aback at first, but, I think, if I saw the man had a little girl w/ him, I'd be okay w/ it.
And I also agree that a random restroom in a shopping department is much different than a restroom or locker room at some place like a gym or a pool where one could expect to encounter women changing clothes or showering.
All this said, our daughter is 18, & DH never had to take her into either the men's OR the women's restroom when she was a little girl. I, however, did need to bring our sons into the women's restroom when they were little.
A little bathroom story -
I like to think most people are good & kind & don't mean any harm. DH says I'm too trusting. A couple of years ago, we were traveling & out of town. We stopped at a grocery story, & our daughter (who was about 16 at the time) & I went into the grocery story. I needed to use the restroom. She didn't, so she waited for me just outside the restroom by the newspaper racks. In the short time I was in the restroom, an older man approached her & tried to engage her in conversation, asking her questions like "Where are you from?". In her words, he made her feel "weird" & she felt like he was too close to her "personal space," so she moved away to the customer service desk. I told her that he was probably just one of those people who like to chat & will talk to anyone. But, again, you have to trust your instincts.
DD was around 16. I couldn't imagine leaving a younger child outside of the restroom to wait.