Staples students have seemingly been taking on new titles as self-proclaimed graffiti artists. In both the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms–nearly everyone in the building–all over the sides of the stalls, the handicapped especially, are chicken-scratched messages etched into the royal blue plastic.

The girls’ bathrooms on all three floors have seemingly become a sanctuary for the thoughts and true feelings their of anonymous writers.

Dustyn Levenson ’14, creator of eating disorder awareness campaign “Reshaping Reality,” is not a fan.  “I think it desensitizes the really important issue of what goes on in the bathrooms. In addition to the conventional purpose, the bathrooms are a place where girls can go to isolate themselves,” said Levenson.

“When people walk into the stalls with pre-existing emotions and see the graffiti half-heartedly written by a stranger, it almost seems to be mocking the issue.”

While it’s clear the girls’ bathroom serves as an emotional outlet, the boys are an entirely different story. The boys express themselves in negative and derogatory drawings and sentiments that are offensive to many who see them.

Crawling across the walls are secret lists and provocative doodles regarding the girls in the school. The stalls in the boys’ bathroom seemingly serve as a canvas for their favorite locker room jokes.

“It’s really disrespectful,” said Jonathan Blansfield ’14. “Not only are the drawings and messages mean, but it’s school vandalism.”

The stall art of the boys’ bathrooms were all too graphic to publish.

The reasoning behind why the two bathrooms differ so drastically can only be speculated. Harley Kowalsky ’15 points to the difference in maturity levels between the two genders.

“Girls are more mature,” said Kowalsky. “Boys still have about the same brain capacity of five-year-olds.”