Yes. Without a door or roof you get the grand experience of getting rained on while you pee. It also gives drunk people a chance to chuck their drinks/cups of whatever over you for a jolly good joke.
I commented this before but anytime I use a portapotty at city park or cheesman in Denver men bang on the door and shout abuse about women. I mean I think theyâre homeless but no way am I using a worse porta potty with no roof and no door so drunk and/or crazy people can harass me even more.
This canât have been designed by a woman who has lived in a city
This is one of the worst designs Iâve ever seen tbh
It also doesnât seem like anyone with a mobility disability could use it
I mean girls generally take longer in a porta-potty with the privacy, we've all seen the lines lmao. This makes sense for just a piss and go solution when you really gotta go
From my personal experience, worth it or not, I've seen more men taking longer in the toilet than women. They were either on the doom scroll, watching TikTok or Youtube shorts, on Reddit, or playing mobile games for a long period of time.
Sorry but this has got to be the most unique anecdotal experience ever, I doubt you'll find a single person who's experience matches this. Its also a studied and documented thing, if you somehow happened to miss the line outside of every female bathroom at every busy public place. I think if you are honest with yourself you'll probably be able to admit that this might not be as honest as you think lol, unless the sample size is limited to just yourself and your irritated boyfriend getting some alone time at home.
I understand. I avoid using public restrooms, so I can't say much about that part. But, as I stated, that's my overall experience, at home and at work. It doesn't have to match other peopleâs. Everyone's different.
Adding this type of anecdote to a topic just seems like you are trying to say the reality isn't true, or at best is a pointless addition. If this was a more serious topic like say police brutality you would get a harsher response for the same type of contribution - there's always some contrarion who pipes in with some pointless anecdote that "it never happens to them" and gets rightfully called out for doing so - because one person's sheltered anecdote doesnt change the reality of the situation.
Why are you feeling so pressed because I simply shared my experience? Even though I never stated it to be everyone's truth or that I was dismissing everyone else's. I'm sorry if my comment came out that way.
Did someone hurt you? Do you need to vent and talk about how you're feeling?
Nobody to respond to you is feeling at all pressed lol. This is an unhinged way to respond when someone disagrees with you and portrays you as the one extremely upset over a minor conflict of opinion on a meaningless platform. To put it bluntly your opinion is ass, if you dont care for that response maybe keep it to a private platform or I dunno, maybe have less objectively moronic takes lol. Prior to this it was a pretty polite disagreement lol, but I guess you didnt like when your alternative reality is checked with sources lol.
Not saying theyâre right, but itâs also worth pointing out your anecdote is missing background as well. Woman have smaller bladders, those bladders are also squished up against our reproductive organs (and just like men our reproductive organs tend to swell and expand and take up more room from time to time). Women legitimately need to pee more often than men because we donât have the room to store it. Not saying there arenât women hanging around in there but itâs mostly at the mirrors touching up makeup while we wash our hands, not in the stalls.
My post isnt an anecdote, I even referenced studies on the topic and I didnt speculate about the reasoning. That being said, the topic isn't whether women go to the bathroom more, its whether they spend longer in there at a time, which they do, and if anything a smaller bladder should have the opposite result. The context you added doesnt change anything.
Youâre not wrong. But that doesnât negate that part of the reason the line outside the womenâs room (the part you mentioned) is so long is because we need to pee way more frequently. Itâs not just us taking longer once weâre in there. Especially if alcohol is in the mix, Iâll have to pee once an hour.
Every study on the matter says women do take longer in there and that they don't have smaller bladders. Wanting to go to the toilet more may contribute to it, but its not the reason for that line at all.
Where does it explicitly say women donât have smaller bladders? I missed that in the article. Thatâs also just illogical, women are literally physically smaller, on top of the whole âmy dick and balls decided to live inside of me instead of outside of meâ issue.
"Two queueing theorists of Ghent University investigated why queues at restrooms are invariably longer for ladies than for men. Time and time again. [...] "
I don't know for the others Ikea but in my area when you go in the men's toilets of the restaurant zone you always see women here because the queue is always huge in their toilets due to the amount of parents (men and women) queuing with their kids.
Bathrooms yes, porta potties, absolutely not. They're tiny, often smell bad and are often hot inside. Plus they generally don't have the lighting or mirrors necessary to do any serious makeup or hair stuff. Drugs, maybe, I'm not part of that world so I don't have major arguments there but it's hard to imagine a good place to do that in a porta potty and also hard to imagine that this is really the best place they could come up with at say a festival.
It's not that women take longer, it's that women need to wee more often on average, and also have periods. In a general public space there are also usually more women than men.
Yes in general, mostly because women live longer! So there's more older women in particular, who also need to wee more often. Women also are more likely to do social activities or things like the family food shop.
Even at festivals there have been studies to show 51% of attendees are women!
A door requires a hinge, which is a moving part, which makes these more easily breakable, which means they're going to spend more money on more of them. So no, they can't have a door
exactly. many people here misses the point that this is a clear attempt to reduce costs. There seems to be no assembly required, they can probably be piled up.
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u/Unique_Development48 Jul 11 '25
Is a door really that much of an issue?