"Scan your biometric ID here in order to use the facilities," is a statement I would expect to be followed by a cheerfully voiced but thinly veiled threat about compliance and an advertisement for Amazon.com.
The "Cancellation" of J.K. Rowling
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Is this what you're picturing, or were you thinking facing the wall?
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I actually tried to think of how to use them both facing them and away. When women sit on an actual toilet with a seat, we spread out legs a bit to open our Labias so that the pee doesn't actually get on our vaginal opening. The two openings are very close together, but getting urine in our actual vagina will cause infection so we keep the opening of the vagina very clean at all times in order to prevent infection. We would have to balance like that diagram with our legs slightly spread WHILE having our clothing preventing us from spreading them further or our clothing could touch the ground ( which would be gross). We also are supposed to wipe after peeing, unlike men, our urethras are just holes, so we have nothing to " shake it off with" and in order to keep the urine away from our Vagina we have to wipe or jump up and down or try to remain balanced like that for an extended period of time in order to air dry. In addition, unlike the diagram, I see no toilet tissue near the urinals, nor do I see a bin directly across from them. So if we gathered tissue elsewhere before going to them, we would then have to simultaneously hold on to the tissue with pee all over it WHILE trying to balance and pull up and fasten our clothes at the same time until we could find a bin to toss our tissue in to?! ALSO Notice how the actual urinals curve up in the front in the photo, unlike the diagram, so they would not actually work like the diagram. When you change the shape of the urinal in the diagram, the front upper curve would be touching the woman using it unless she either straddles it or sits too far away, making it less safe than a regular toilet seat. You either have to be too far away and still have it spray out to the sides getting everywhere because the urinals are too narrow to catch it all or actually touch the gross urinals. All of this on top of being able to balance like that in the first place without falling into the urinal, and after a few pints, many women are not going to be able to pull that off without making a mess of themselves. Also looking at the height of those things, what about short women who barely touch the ground on a normal toilet, how would they use one of those at all?
When I go out Clubbing, I often do not even bring my purse with me, I just have my date hold my ID in his wallet since most of my clothing does not even have pockets. For those guys who suggest a woman carry one of those pee cups that are supposed to make it so a woman can use the Urinal, would they too be willing to hold a pee cup in their pocket for the girl who has no pockets as well? LOL!
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.... and would they also smell better?
Given the existence of Fetish Websites, there are some who might consider that foreplay for later that night...
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Having control of when your girlfriend/date gets to pee sounds like a creepy fetish waiting to happen.
Yikes, so complicated!
I still think there's an innovative design solution out there somewhere waiting to be found by some imaginative engineering/geometry-minded person.
There was this cool female portable urinal for festivals I saw.
Lapee female urinal designed to reduce festival loo queues
Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg have designed an industrial-standard female toilet for festivals and outdoor events that allows people to pee sitting down quickly and safely.
www.dezeen.com
Bottom line though it's really sad that women have been made to feel vulnerable and unsafe when having to do one of the most basic human functions.
Those actually creep me out a bit as well. like what about people wearing a leotard or catsuit? My many years of wrestling gymnastics, dance and cheerleading outfits always keeps that in my mind as you essentially have to get naked in order to use the toilet. They are also obviously not handicap accessible, and if we are on our period, are we expected to have everyone watch us while we insert our tampons? where in those things do you actually PUT the tampons?! I personally would prefer the regular bathroom stalls to anything I have seen offered. I know it is not as " cost or space efficient", but single use stalls and bathrooms are still going to be better for women due to our needs and their functionality. As for safety, if it is not a single occupant bathroom that you can lock, designing multi person restrooms to have more than one entrance would greatly help prevent a single individual from blocking both escape routes. As for girls being taught to run and scream from men, that is something that can only change when society itself changes to be safer so they do not have to. Until that happens, there is no design that will keep us safe no matter where we are. Predators are opportunists, they wait for when you are vulnerable, when you have your guard down and are not expecting it. Whether that is a woman leaning into her car to fasten a child into a car seat or a girl walking home alone from a friend's house, they will always find a way to target us until we find a way to make this less prevalent in our society.Yikes, so complicated!
I still think there's an innovative design solution out there somewhere waiting to be found by some imaginative engineering/geometry-minded person.
There was this cool female portable urinal for festivals I saw.
Lapee female urinal designed to reduce festival loo queues
Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg have designed an industrial-standard female toilet for festivals and outdoor events that allows people to pee sitting down quickly and safely.
Bottom line though it's really sad that women have been made to feel vulnerable and unsafe when having to do one of the most basic human functions.
This is what I was thinking about last night.
I do not get what it is with people, but they keep trying to design things between women and men as exactly the same. We are the same mentally. Our bodies are different. This is like how women historically have had more complications from undiagnosed heart attacks because the symptoms didn't fit what some doctors have been taught all heart attacks look like.
When I go to the bathroom in public, there's three things that I'm probably doing. Urinating, washing my hands, and getting a tissue.
... I really try not to do number 2 because people are freaking gross.
Anyway, The number of things that a woman could be doing in the stall is myriad. A Bathroom is more essential to women than guys because it's more than just relief for women. I think the solution is just freaking have a bigger space for women's bathrooms. 2 times a man's. More stalls, less problems.
Don't even get me started on the gender gap in medical research, until recently, women were almost entirely excluded from clinical trials. Still, even now, we are extremely lacking on research for women's health issues, how females respond to widely used medications and chemical vs males and teaching different surgical procedures on both males and females. There are a good number of differences from common reactions to differences in how we heal that are not adequately being addressed.
The medical research gender gap: how excluding women from clinical trials is hurting our health
When it comes to health research, large gender gaps limit how much we know about the difference between women’s health and men’s
www.theguardian.com
They have not even determined a diagnosis for all of women's health issues yet. I first started suffering from Menorrhagia as a teen, but the doctors here did not even have a name for it yet and had no clue how to treat it. Even now, so many physicians STILL do not even know what it is or how to treat it because they were not taught these things in school at all. They instead just gave me tranquilizers and knocked me out for days and sent a note to the school for me to miss school EVERY MONTH because they had no idea what to do that would help me. It interfered with work and school and they didn't even address the other health issues it caused at the time resulting in me repeatedly fainting at school. Due the severity of it, my mom, who has had many normal periods of her own and the mother of 6 girls, actually thought I was dying and was bleeding to death and took me to the hospital over it being so bad. It is honestly terrifying when even the doctors do not know what is happening to you as a patient. We still have a VERY long way to go for Women's healthcare will catch up to men's, it is just too far behind and too much funding is needed to make it happen.
No I'm usually good at cleaning up etc though some places when I've arrived have admittedly smelled worse than public toilets......
Oh no! All her scrolls and enchanted items must have been ruined too! That's an easy way to end a good run. That's why you never zap yourself with an unidentified wand unless you are absolutely sure of what you are holding!
OT: I have no idea what it means to be "cancelled". It always seems like suddenly everybody is using words in a way that has no meaning to me. I must be getting old.
OT: I have no idea what it means to be "cancelled". It always seems like suddenly everybody is using words in a way that has no meaning to me. I must be getting old.
I've done some... research in this field, and it is indeed possible for women to pee standing up nearly as accurately as men. Some can do it through the fly in their jeans. The key is to expose the urethra without also putting pressure on it. Most women just don't put in the practice required to develop the skill.
Sure, and we humans can all spin webs out of our backsides just because spiders can, too.
As an aside, I still think it's incredibly dumb that the one thing, the one thing, that everyone thinks about when they think about what makes spiders special is not one of Spider-Man's powers but is something he just so happened to invent.
Well, there's no ambiguity about her position now. If you think trans women are women, you are dead to her.
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J.K. Rowling deletes tweet praising Stephen King after he shows support for trans women - National | Globalnews.ca
The 'Harry Potter' author deleted her tweet after Stephen King told another Twitter user: 'Trans women are women.'
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