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

[paka.livejournal.com]

I really hate urinals - this is because as a kid, it meant you were distracted while your back was perfectly open. That's a wonderful opportunity for bullying, so I started using stalls when I absolutely had to go - that puts a solid locked door between you and any peers with brilliant ideas.

These days if I just need to pee, I'll use the urinals because who knows, someone might come in desparately needing to shit - and it'd be rude to take up a stall instead. The big exception are those big aluminum troughs you're supposed to pee in, in some public places. I would rather pee in the bushes than use one of those things.

I kinda wish that people were more relaxed and also installed stalls intead of urinals. It'd be more utilitarian, in case a bathroom were out of comission or needed to be cleaned.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Your lucky... our schools didn't have locks on the doors. If you used the restroom, you did number 2 in front of everyone...

I learned to wait till I got home...