Walls of pencil marks to knife carvings fill public space everywhere, including the school bathrooms. There are sayings like “Nobody has the right to say your [sic] not beautiful” on the girls’ stall wall. The mens’ bathroom walls have names with numbers scribbled across them. The only difference between the two spaces is the gender specific to the artwork.

The most common mens bathroom graffiti is scribbled insults whereas in the girls bathrooms it’s more inspiration, according to 2012 study done by Nicholas Matthew, a  PhD candidate at Indiana University. He explains this as evolutionary psychology. Matthews thinks boosting up oneself is a male mating strategy and women putting women down is classical female action, but they feel the need to build each other back up.

Students are already seeing the graffiti in their bathroom experiences in the halls at school.

“When I read the writing on the stall walls I laugh a little,” said senior Isabella Martin “I mean, yes, it is so called inspirational, but it’s funny because people are not usually nice. Plus, there are rude comments responding back.”

The walls of the boys bathrooms also follow the facts of Matthew’s survey with explicit words to titles like “bruh.”

“I think it’s a disgrace,” said sophomore Jesse James of the bathroom art. “I read things all the time where people are using other students names and numbers to decorate the stall. I just think it makes the school look bad. Guys can be so rude to each other.”