This Sports Arena Changed Women’s Bathrooms To Men’s For The NHL Playoffs

Bladder control has never been more important.

The Edmonton Oilers have turned some women's bathrooms into men's bathrooms at Rogers Place during the NHL playoffs. Needless to say, many women are pretty unhappy about it.

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Two women’s bathrooms were converted for use by men during the playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks. Oilers management said it merely reflected the demographics of those attending the games.

“As we’ve done for many concerts here at Rogers Place where the crowd skews one gender or the other, the demographics — certainly we’ve seen, at concerts like John Mayer, the Lumineers, Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, where it’s a predominantly female crowd — we’ve switched washrooms from male to female," Tim Shipton with the Oilers Entertainment Group told Global News.

The move, which was supposed to shorten line-ups for men, has caused "chaos" for the women attending the games.

Cee @hunny_goose

Thanks @RogersPlace for screwing the females with the bathroom change. This is chaos.

11:58 PM - 30 Apr 2017

People are NOT happy.

Cheryl Stuart @Lundyhistorian

@EdmontonOilers @RogersPlace TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE THAT YOU HAVE CHANGED HALF THE WOMENS BATHROOM INTO MEN #stupid

12:03 AM - 01 May 2017

Taryn Brandell @tarynbrandell

wait a second, men complained about waiting in bathroom lines, so they converted some of the women's to men's...… https://t.co/MzljTPGu1i

02:43 PM - 04 May 2017

"One women's bathroom for the entire end of the arena... come on now!"

Stacey Brennan @12sbrennan

@RogersPlace @EdmontonOilers heads up on bathroom changes would be nice! One women's bathroom for the entire end of the arena...come on now!

12:06 AM - 01 May 2017

Also, women have to deal with this bullshit all the time. Maybe the men should just toughen up a bit.

rae @hockeyspace_rae

lmao @ the oilers god forbid men have to wait two minutes to piss try being any women at any big event or lbr an airport is bathroom hell

11:05 PM - 03 May 2017

Some people are trying to come up with creative solutions to the mess.

Dani @penalty17

I have two solutions for this bathroom malarkey at @RogersPlace 1. Allow men to use women's washrooms after line's done 2. Catheters

12:40 AM - 04 May 2017

Of course, there's a really obvious solution here that nobody at Rogers Place seems to have considered...

Kim Jong-Oiler @kimjongoiler

The washroom discussion for @RogersPlace is moronic. Maybe we need to grow up and just make all washrooms gender-neutral?

Wed May 03 16:01:21 UTC+0000 2017

Yep.