Monday, April 18, 2016

Book: Toilet

Book: Toilet
Author: Harvey Molotch

Short synopsis: Edited series of articles on the public toilet.

Longer thoughts:
I learned things! Such as:
1. The gendered of public bathrooms was originally to protect women's virtue. Because Victorians.
2. Continued gendering of public and semi-public bathrooms is remarkably like the jim crow south, because women are gross.
3. The romans had public bathrooms. Whether these were gendered is uncertain, because there's nothing to tell us.

I'm still looking for stats on speed, though I'm starting to think public urinals are a negative as they are only of benefit to an elite and not to everyone.

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