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

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

Having once used men's rooms on a fairly regular basis, I have no idea how I would react now to the idea of going back into one, even if it were an emergency. I still suffer from sufficient body-image issues as to make the idea unappealing for fear of being "misidentified", or "read".

It's entirely possible that a matter might arise in which the options are men's room or nothing; when I first started my transition I was invited to a tea house with my parents that literally did not have a men's room. They had a women's and a women's overflow that could serve as a single-occupant men's bathroom in time of need, but no dedicated men's room. I still don't know how I feel about that.

Ultimately I think (or at the very least I hope) that society will at some point in the future get over its collective hangups about the body and about sex and gender and all of that silliness, and people will simply go to "the bathroom", not "the men's room" or "the women's room" or even "the unisex room". I suspect it will not happen soon, or easily, but I hold out hopes that it will one day happen.

Kristy

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I agree, both on the 'ideal' and on the feeling that it will happen one day, but it may take a while to get here.