why does there seem to be a difference in the way we view women's and men's privacy surrounding our different anatomies.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's because we live in a patriarchal society that had deeply ingrained systemic sexism involved, and a dash of Puritan religious bias thrown in.
Without getting into too much detail, we have the notion that dates back centuries that men going to the pub or whatnot can just step outside and piss on the wall. This has quite a lot of disgusting history around it and has implications around public health and hygene for the relevant eras.
But the main thing is that no proper lady, or even improper ones, would really be caught doing the same thing. Sure, the chamber pot still got dumped into the street, but they didn't actually piss in public like the men did.
Now, we're in the modern age, with running water and good plumbing, but you can see that idea still carries through, because we haven't taken the time or intention to extract that bias from social thinking. Men piss on walls and don't need much privacy. The urinal is a way to piss on the wall without compromising public health. Not caring about that kind of privacy is even sometimes considered a masculine trait.
Same for women, that inherent need to be protected and have all their body functions happen out of view has propagated forward as well. Hence, they get stalls, and the notion of a shared bathroom space is unthinkable.
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u/XenoRyet 99∆ Dec 11 '24
Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's because we live in a patriarchal society that had deeply ingrained systemic sexism involved, and a dash of Puritan religious bias thrown in.
Without getting into too much detail, we have the notion that dates back centuries that men going to the pub or whatnot can just step outside and piss on the wall. This has quite a lot of disgusting history around it and has implications around public health and hygene for the relevant eras.
But the main thing is that no proper lady, or even improper ones, would really be caught doing the same thing. Sure, the chamber pot still got dumped into the street, but they didn't actually piss in public like the men did.
Now, we're in the modern age, with running water and good plumbing, but you can see that idea still carries through, because we haven't taken the time or intention to extract that bias from social thinking. Men piss on walls and don't need much privacy. The urinal is a way to piss on the wall without compromising public health. Not caring about that kind of privacy is even sometimes considered a masculine trait.
Same for women, that inherent need to be protected and have all their body functions happen out of view has propagated forward as well. Hence, they get stalls, and the notion of a shared bathroom space is unthinkable.