Thinking about peeing

[beetiger]

I got Rhys a potty, since he's been really interesting in flushing the toilet whn I use it. I took off his diaper and put him on it; he promptly hopped off, stuck his head in it, and peed on the floor. Not sure what to make of that.

I've been thinking a lot about gender-neutral bathrooms these days. I was at a performance of the Vagina Monologues last weekend, and the bathroom situation was just silly -- lines down the hallway for the women's room, and no one in the men's room. I couldn't get any of the women to hop overto the other side, though I suggested it to several. Part of it is the cultural taboo, I think, but part of it is just...the urinals.

Urinals are weird. We don't have them in bathrooms at home. Women's rooms don't have them, and generally they don't have extra stalls to compensate. I would think that standing with your genitals exposed in a public area would be really odd. So, why?

I have to know.

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Comments

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Bwhahaha! :) You're great, Beetiger. :)

I didn't know that y'all's bathrooms did NOT have extra stalls to compensate the fact that you don't have urinals. I thought they always did? What on earth do y'all have on that blank space on the wall?

No, men do NOT peak. We pretend that by god we are the ONLY person in there, evein if people are stacked up 3 deep behind you waiting their turn. Eyes front and NO TALKING! Those are the rules. :) Male bathroom etiquette is different than female. :)

WHY on EARTH would I want to sit on a public toilet??? In a mens room, generally, they're only used for sit down business. Would you want to sit down on one that was doing double duty so to speak, and doubly used because it's multisex?

Loxley

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

... And this is why I hate being a man. :'D

Well... among other things, as well.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

What on earth do y'all have on that blank space on the wall?

*thinks a moment* Usually either a shelf with a mirror above it for fixing/applying makeup, or one of those disgusting Koala Bear Kare baby-changing stations that never gets cleaned.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I've had to use those. I wipe them down with disinfectant cloths and then put my own pad down on top of it.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[hbergeronx.livejournal.com]

many mens rooms have these as well.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

When was the last time you saw someone use it?

Me, Personally? Disneyland, New Orleans Restroom, back in November. First and last time I saw it used...

[hbergeronx.livejournal.com]

it's not so much that they are used, as much as they are there. The implication was that the changing station supplants the urinal, and that's not generally true. If there is a changing station, both bathrooms have one.

I have seen them used often, particularly in the mall. Give a man a tool to make his life easier, and he will use it, IMO.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

1) Girls learn to hover when we use public toilets.

2) Do people actually wait on line behind the urinals? In women's rooms, we wait on line in the room, but we only see people washing their hands or maybe using the changing table or putting on makeup.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I don't bother to hover. I'll pick up more germs opening the stall door than sitting down on the seat.

[rowyn]

I'm with you. I've *never* understood the whole "hovering" thing.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

The first time you experince sitting down when someone has missed the center... well, there you go...

[rowyn]

Nope, that just makes me annoyed with the hoverers, because they're the only women who can miss. And I always *look* at the seat before I sit down.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

YOu never know in unisex bathrooms, though.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

In my experience, the line in the men's room stops, at the closest, about ten feet of the way from the urinals. Guys just do not want to risk being accused of looking at each others' cocks. They're programmed with a lot of dick-size insecurity, and a lot of queerphobia. And fear of being seen as queer.

I casually used urinals my entire male life, and yet never used this to have a sense of where my dick stood in the grand scheme of dick size. TMI: Everyone who's ever held it and expressed an opinion has said that it's thicker than most they've encountered, and a functional if unremarkable length, but I never learnt that myself through observation in public bathrooms.