Thinking about peeing
Mar. 4th, 2005 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerI 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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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.
[Poll #448516]
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Date: 2005-03-05 03:01 am (UTC)Having said that I am having difficulty convincing
So, my question, as someone who's used urinals since about the age of 3, and is thus very used to them: What's weird about them?
Then again, I also like squat toilets.
(And bidets!)
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Date: 2005-03-05 04:32 am (UTC)1) You are doing an act in public with only the illusion of security being how big and buff you can make yourself feel while peeing. (I have ALWAYS wondered what would happen if someone started to fondle someone else while using an urinal, and the mayhem to persue that)
2) YOu are doing it STANDING UP... for the longest, longest time, I found that completely weird. I didn't like it that much... It wasn't as high as #1, but it was pretty up there.
3) I know I had another reason when I started this... Cats walking distracting me...
I think it's the fact that I do this while others are looking that just freaks me out... I use urnals only when pressure of time (Like other people are waiting on me) call for me to. Otherwise, I perfer to sit down.