Bathroom habits of uncivilized creatures
Apr. 16th, 2003 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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debate topic - bathrooms and all - and found this woman's response:
Women's Bathroom Behaviour:
Sometimes chatting, sometimes not. No particular embarassment about peeing while all this is going on. #2 is, however, sort of a touchy issue. Sometimes you can get by with pretending that's not going on. Sometimes not.
Sometimes a mom has to bring her small kids into the bathroom to either wait while she uses the toilet, or help them use the toilet. Sometimes this is accompanied by a narrative.
There's bumming toilet paper. Or tampons.
Chat while washing hands and putting on lipstick also happens.
I remember that. IT WAS HORRIBLE!!! *cries* It was downright traumatizing, is what it was. Embarrassed? Fuck no, it needs a stronger word than that.
There was absolutely nothing worse than being trapped in a stall listening to two total ditzes blab on about how cute Josh crashed the party on Friday night. Except for, maybe, the girls at the sink swapping lipstick and blabbing...and refusing to let girls who needed to wash their hands reach the sink.
I used to watch girls come in, spend forever rearranging their hair in the mirror, and walk out with it looking either exactly the same or worse than when they walked in.
I had a profound hatred for women in high school, and having to use the women's didn't help. Actually, it made it worse.
Really, what the hell is WRONG with women? Why can't they just walk in, do their business and leave? Why must they travel to the bathroom in packs (even though only one or two girls actually have to go) and take up all the room standing around and making meaningless chitchat? Why do they feel the need to talk even when dealing with basic bodily functions? Why do they continue to hold faith in the delusion that if they run their hands through their hair like the chick in last week's teen slasher, it'll make them look that sexy when they're stabbed?
Jesus, I could never understand why women make taking a piss social hour.
endogenousardor's debate topic - bathrooms and all - and found this woman's response:Women's Bathroom Behaviour:
Sometimes chatting, sometimes not. No particular embarassment about peeing while all this is going on. #2 is, however, sort of a touchy issue. Sometimes you can get by with pretending that's not going on. Sometimes not.
Sometimes a mom has to bring her small kids into the bathroom to either wait while she uses the toilet, or help them use the toilet. Sometimes this is accompanied by a narrative.
There's bumming toilet paper. Or tampons.
Chat while washing hands and putting on lipstick also happens.
I remember that. IT WAS HORRIBLE!!! *cries* It was downright traumatizing, is what it was. Embarrassed? Fuck no, it needs a stronger word than that.
There was absolutely nothing worse than being trapped in a stall listening to two total ditzes blab on about how cute Josh crashed the party on Friday night. Except for, maybe, the girls at the sink swapping lipstick and blabbing...and refusing to let girls who needed to wash their hands reach the sink.
I used to watch girls come in, spend forever rearranging their hair in the mirror, and walk out with it looking either exactly the same or worse than when they walked in.
I had a profound hatred for women in high school, and having to use the women's didn't help. Actually, it made it worse.
Really, what the hell is WRONG with women? Why can't they just walk in, do their business and leave? Why must they travel to the bathroom in packs (even though only one or two girls actually have to go) and take up all the room standing around and making meaningless chitchat? Why do they feel the need to talk even when dealing with basic bodily functions? Why do they continue to hold faith in the delusion that if they run their hands through their hair like the chick in last week's teen slasher, it'll make them look that sexy when they're stabbed?
Jesus, I could never understand why women make taking a piss social hour.