Homelessness in the U.S. is at a record high. Establishments meant to provide basic services to the homeless population are facing far more challenges than simply resource depletion. A homeless woman in New Hampshire, who goes by @rozmarie.lau6 on TikTok, is fed up and now speaking out.
She recently posted a video discussing a few of the reasons she’s being denied bathroom admittance. Even in non-profit places that cater to the homeless, such as New Hampshire soup kitchens, she’s being turned away.
RozMarie publicly detailed her hardships, and didn’t hold back for the camera:
Downtown, nobody’s letting us use the bathroom because we’re homeless people. Come to the soup kitchen for supper, still can’t use the bathroom because people are messing the bathrooms up… And the people who [haven’t] messed that up don’t get to go [to] the bathroom. What the **ck?
With limited free toilet options available, and multiple health issues plaguing her, RozMarie has had enough. She refuses to risk a scenario where she might wet herself publicly. Desperate for other solutions, she threatens to pee on the sidewalks where any public building owner withholds bathroom access.
I don’t understand these people. They make us homeless. They are ignorant to us. They turn us down. They treat us like **it.
Before she ends her video, RozMarie stresses that homelessness isn’t her choice, and was never within her control to avoid.
“What’s this world coming to?” she asks her viewers, before she delves into the biases against homeless people in general.
In another video on her TikTok channel, she discusses some domestic issues that reportedly led to evictions from her two previous homes.
Regardless of the reasons as to why she now lives on the streets in New Hampshire, RozMarie poses a relevant question. In the United States, where freedom supposedly rings, should bathroom admittance in public locations be a guarded privilege? Or should public toilet usage be everybody’s right?
