cause 'men' isn't necessarily about lust and can be shorthand for 'stands up to pee'.
It could be. But . . . it isn't. If I look up men in the dictionary, I won't have "stands up to pee" in the lexicography. Men who sit down to pee and women who stand up to do so don't use the opposite sex's bathrooms.
And when we (men) don't need to stand up, we don't use women's bathrooms. We use the ordinary sitting-down toilets in men's bathrooms.
I wouldn't have a problem with "stands up to pee" bathrooms, except insofar as they acted as a way of invisibly re-inscribing gender and ended up not being about excretory mechanics at all, as I expect they would in a patriarchal society. . . .
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Date: 2008-03-27 04:35 pm (UTC)It could be. But . . . it isn't. If I look up men in the dictionary, I won't have "stands up to pee" in the lexicography. Men who sit down to pee and women who stand up to do so don't use the opposite sex's bathrooms.
And when we (men) don't need to stand up, we don't use women's bathrooms. We use the ordinary sitting-down toilets in men's bathrooms.
I wouldn't have a problem with "stands up to pee" bathrooms, except insofar as they acted as a way of invisibly re-inscribing gender and ended up not being about excretory mechanics at all, as I expect they would in a patriarchal society. . . .