By Lucy Kenningham In 1969 March Fong Eu mounted the steps in front of the Californian State Capitol and smashed a porcelain toilet to smithereens with an axe. Eu, a Democrat at the California State Assembly, was taking a stand against what she saw as the inherently misogynistic state of public toilets in the US – men could go freely outdoors whilst women had to pay to pee. Eu’s revolt inspired a birth of the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (Ceptia) formed to “eliminate pay toilets in the US”. Ceptia’s campaign, which included publishing a pamphlet titled the Free Toilet Paper, was ult…