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what the actual fuck

Men don’t know women can pee

ive been sitting on the toilet for 20 minutes trying to piss but the pee keeps getting lost in my confusing Woman Body

Do you know what this means, though? Not only did some cis man write that and think it made sense, but not a single person with a vulva was involved in the editing of this book before it went to publication (or they simply weren’t listened to). 

Having diversity in your creative team makes for better media! 

How does any man who lives with a woman not know that we pee faster than they do?

I think this is yet another case of men projecting something onto women that they feel themselves. Penis envy was Freud imagining that women were profoundly unhappy with clitorises instead of penises because men are obsessed with the size of their penis and he couldn’t imagine a man being happy with a tiny penis, so how could a woman be happy without one? 

In this case, men are liable to get swollen prostates that interfere with the ability to pee, and also, a man who is hard finds it biologically difficult to pee. (Not impossible, I guess, or piss kink wouldn’t be possible, but very difficult.) There’s no common equivalent for women… being aroused doesn’t make it harder for us to pee, and we don’t have prostates.

I mean, this is one of the few biological advantages of female equipment. Our shorter urethras make us more prone to UTIs. But we are less likely to have trouble peeing. (I’ve also observed that we are less likely to be constipated… I don’t know whether this is because of biology, diet, or the fact that we have to sit on the toilet multiple times a day, so we have no motivation to hold our poop. Men have to make a special poop trip, and if you hold your poop when you need to poop, you get constipated, and busy men might not want to take time for the poop session. Women were sitting down to pee anyway, so might as well poop.)

I suspect this writer is a guy who assumed that all the time his wife spends in the bathroom is because she is trying to pee, because she has to spend a lot of time putting on makeup and doing hygiene to impress him without him knowing she’s doing it because he’s just that much of a jerk. Like that poor woman on Real Housewives of New Jersey or whatever who brags about the fact that her husband has never, ever seen her go to the bathroom to poop, like she hides it from him to create the illusion that women don’t poo. Really, lady? He’s that fucking insecure that he needs to believe you’re not human to love you? But for some reason we put up with this shit from guys and don’t kick their asses to the curb like we ought to.