Reflection On The Restroom

The Men’s Bathroom

Deviance is defined as being the recognized violation of cultural norms. In my perspective, deviance is the behaviors or acts that I perceive as a violation of my personal values, morals, or daily practices. Furthermore, I projected that mindset towards my deviant behavior when brainstorming what societal norm I was going to break. With that, it was very challenging for me to construct a deviant act that was actually deemed as deviant to the general population of society. Since I am an introvert I first gravitated towards behaviors that I would be uncomfortable doing or would be in an uncomfortable position if someone did to me. Most of the ideas were behaviors that “normal”, extrovert, and charismatic people already do in

I am currently placing myself in positions where I am uncomfortable and have to get comfortable. With that, this reflection paper has served as a vehicle to push me to step out of my comfort zone and out of familiarity. In order to push myself out of comfortability and my typical thought process, I thought more in depth about deviance on a societal level and it brought me to using the men’s restroom. I decided to use the men’s restroom in all of my class room building around Georgia State. With that, the restrooms I used was one in Aderhold, Classroom South and Langdale. This act of deviance breaks societal norms because I am biologically a female and I am choosing to use a restroom of the opposite sex, males. Males have different reproductive system than females that require them to stand up when they pee which contribute to the reason why females and males use different restrooms. Beginning in Aderhold, I started my deviance journey. As I walked into the men’s restroom, I saw three stalls and about four cardinals. All of the stalls were occupied, so I had to be patient. While waiting I got the pleasure of gaining several gazes from guys washing and drying their hands. It was