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Women: Lean In and Poop at the Office, Already
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/lean...e-already.html Lean In and Poop at the Office, Already BY MAUREEN O'CONNOR Public restrooms induce a certain low-level anxiety in users. There are etiquettes to observe; puddles to dodge; sounds to ignore; dilemmas surrounding flushing. But the anxieties of the public restroom need not induce shame, because they are also universal. We are all at the mercy of public restrooms — supermodels, world leaders, regular gals. Shared toilets are equalizers. Sit or squat, we do it in solidarity. Nonetheless, the Daily Beast's Laura Dimon (daughter of Jamie) reports that "the last office taboo for women" is "doing your business at work." Really? [W]omen report going to different floors, or walking roundabout routes from their desk to the bathroom. And some say they’ve experienced the “standoff,” when two or more women are in the bathroom, but all decline to do their business until the others leave — instead waiting awkwardly, in silence, writhing in emotional and physical discomfort, until someone surrenders. These anxieties are not exclusive to females. In seminal guide "How to Poop at Work," Brian Moylan, a man, also describes the "unspoken shitting toilet" phenomenon. Still, women are widely believed to experience greater pooping anxiety than men. Dimon continues with the sad story of one such woman: Jill, 28, a Vancouver native now working at an insurance company in New York City, said that if she absolutely can’t avoid the act entirely, she lifts her feet off the ground and props them up against the side of the stall to avoid the “chance that the person next to me would recognize my shoes and forever hold in their heads that I was the girl” defecating in the ladies’ room. How is that even possible? Wouldn't the angle and leverage be all wrong? I'm picturing Jill pooping like a ping-pong show. Her effort is unnecessary: Nobody peeks under the edge of a stall to identify a pooping woman by her shoes. Nobody. (Several Cut staffers note actively avoiding identifying details in that context.) If anything, Jill's actions are counterproductive: If I had reason to believe a woman was pooping in a contorted pretzel position like Jill's, I would stick around to ask for yoga tips. But back to Dimon: The office environment takes this anxiety and kicks it up a notch. “The workplace still remains men’s space. Women may be more hypervigilant of not breaking rules of gender by monitoring their femininity even more,” [sociologist Samantha] Kwan says. Harvard anthropologist Kimberly Theidon agrees. “Office space is already pre-determined as a masculine space and women enter it,” she says, adding that there is a “long history of women trying to manage their bodies in their workplace,” and a struggle to not be identified with or associated solely with their bodies. This logic doesn't make a lot of sense, because the workplace that requires a woman to poop right in front of a man is pretty rare. (Ally McBeal's co-ed bathroom notwithstanding.) But since Dimon managed to find a few neurotic females terrified to the point of contortion at the prospect of pooping at work, let's make sure we make this really clear: It is okay to poop at work. Nobody is judging you. Nobody cares. Nobody gives a shit about your shits — we're too busy shitting in our own stalls. Go poop in your office bathrooms, everyone. It's what our feminist foremothers would have wanted. Every woman deserves a poop of her own. (more poop links at the original) |
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And your first thought was to poop on it?
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No. I'm a scientist. I made careful observations and recorded my results. Then I pooped on it.
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The worst shits are when you have to fart a lot when you crap. Of course those are the ones that seem to happen in public bathrooms.
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Come on. Those are great. It's like those self propelled torpedoes you see in the WWII submarine movies. FIRE IN THE HOLE!
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YES! The assplosion. I love those. Real loud, and the bowl makes it echo throughout the lavatory. I walk out with a strut and a very proud look on my face when I can pull those off. A lot of times those are the ones where you could shit through a screen door.
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They opened a new set of classrooms at the high school where I work and my new room is one of them. They put in two new faculty restrooms across the hall as well and they have a little sign below the door knob that says "occupied" when someone is in there. Since our area of the building is about 80% male, we wanted two coed restrooms. The women freaked out and said no way. So over the first couple months any time a gal was in the restroom we would either jiggle the doorknob a bunch, go in the men's room ( they had a common wall) and grunt, talk, make noise so they could hear us or just randomly use their restroom and leave nasty smells and odors. Fast forward 8 months later and that restroom never gets used by a female. Took some planning but worth the effort.
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Oh God, that's gonna itch when it dries!
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