Freedom to Pee

"Priya wake up, I think the bus has stopped. I want to pee, will you please take me", said her grand mother. Priya was traveling with her grand  mother in one of those overnight buses. Her grand mother could only walk with the help of a stick and holding her hand.
"hmm..", woke up Priya. "But it seems like a small bus stand, will there be a wash room here", she didn't want to get up.
In a while she said "I think there is, I see people going. Lets go", said Priya and helped her grand mother get off the bus and took her to the wash room. There were about thirty people waiting in a queue in front if the wash room. The place was quite dingy and damp, Priya had to take utmost care that her grand mother doesn't slip.
"Is there only one washroom?", asked her grand mother.
"No there are three", said another lady who was ahead in the queue.
That is quite strange, I'm quite impressed there are three, thought Priya.
Why is it that women have to take so much trouble even to pee? It is the patriarchy which manifests in different ways. I can definitely understand the bit about cleanliness and hygiene but why is it that only women have to bear the responsibility of all the good things. Aren't men supposed to be clean as well? It is one way in which women are taught to exercise restraint, to suppress, to be in control, a beginning for a lot of other things in life. 
"You are a girl, you are not supposed to pee in the open", they all say. Probably the first instance when gender is taught. But why is all the shame only the property of a girl? Why isn't it shameful for men to display their penises out in the open?
Some one said, if you have so much problem why don't you go and pee outside, no one is stopping you. But isn't that how oppression works, we have been so well acculturated by the society that inspite of knowing the injustice, we do not dare raise the voice against it.  
Even today, in the villages women have to go miles together outside their houses for a safe haven to bathe or attend to their natures calls, a place away from the male gaze. How disgusting can it get, half of the world's population doesn't even have freedom to pee. 
After waiting for almost half an hour, Priya's chance finally came.
I don't expect gender to be erased in my lifetime, but for sure I shall vote for the party which builds toilets for women.