# How badly do you women stink up the bathroom? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005 "2016-08-26T11:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/21 "2016-08-31T20:23:55Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Do none of these people’s bathrooms have fart fans? Ours does but I still need to light and blow out a match after my husband has been gazing at his kingdom. ---
**Author:** ![memyselfandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@memyselfandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/memyselfandi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/22 "2018-03-16T04:42:23Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I have to believe, that, like BO, people become accustomed to their own smells. > > So how can we accurately judge how stinky we are? He’ll just shut the door and tell everyone NOT to go in there for a bit as it smells like, “fresh baked chocolate chip cookies” while the wallpaper is sadly weeping… LOL!! We women don’t smell so sweet either, we just don’t brag about it…while we keep the fan on in the bathroom and silently put that invisible sign on the door that says, “Enter at your own risk…” My son had to immediately go after I “left the room” once…and his reply was…“Good Lord Mom…REALLY!??” Not in those exact words, but you get it. We all make a stink sometimes…and sometimes worse then others…but when ya gotta go…ya gotta go!! What a subject…LOL!! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/23 "2018-03-16T07:19:40Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > 'Scuze me? Have you ever been to a farm? I can assure you that livestock manure smells like, well, shit. Yeah, but a cow shed smells less bad than, say, the lion house at the zoo - when properly scaled for volume - The smell of a farm can be powerful because there’s a lot of it, but if you were exposed to the same amount of carnivore poop, it would knock you right off your feet. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/24 "2018-03-16T07:53:07Z")
I’d say it’s women, because they “hold up” all their farts due to propriety instead of following nature and just letting them rip. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/25 "2018-03-16T12:50:03Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Clearly you’ve never been married! Women stink up the place as much as men, although they’re more conscientious about covering up the smell with something out of consideration for others. Not me, I mark my territory proudly. I am woman, smell me roar! ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/26 "2018-03-16T12:55:51Z")
I know this is a zombie poop, but I feel compelled to clear up for the OP the fact that men and women are from the same species. Poop smell is largely based on diet. Drink a lot of beer; you’re going to stink. Eat a lot of junk food; you’re going to stink. Have a gastric bypass or other gut issue; you’re going to stink. Etc, etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/27 "2018-03-16T13:02:34Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Not me, I mark my territory proudly. I am woman, smell me roar! I think I’m starting to understand your username. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/28 "2018-03-16T13:12:17Z")
Who thinks lighting a match is going to do anything for the stink? It just makes the toilet smell like rank shit AND burning match. I’ve never understood why people continue with that completely ineffective act. Is it some sort of ritual sacrifice to the Stank Gods? Hate when the toilet at work smells like shit AND incipient arson. WTF, people? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/29 "2018-03-16T14:10:10Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Who thinks lighting a match is going to do anything for the stink? It just makes the toilet smell like rank shit AND burning match. I’ve never understood why people continue with that completely ineffective act. Is it some sort of ritual sacrifice to the Stank Gods? > > Hate when the toilet at work smells like shit AND incipient arson. WTF, people? I believe the smoke smell is supposed to distract your nose from the smell of shit. It works the same way as air freshener - the shit smell is still there, but you are distracted by the other scent. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/30 "2018-03-16T14:28:21Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I believe the smoke smell is supposed to distract your nose from the smell of shit. It works the same way as air freshener - the shit smell is still there, but you are distracted by the other scent. I thought it was that the flame burns up the stinky gases? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/31 "2018-03-16T14:28:31Z")
Distracted? Two ugly stinks are still two ugly stinks. It doesn’t hide anything. As for “burning” the stinky gasses - great, let’s replace stank with a methane explosion. Winning! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/32 "2018-03-16T16:13:47Z")
Threads like this make me really appreciate our situation. She has her bathroom, I have mine, and there is a guest bathroom for anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/33 "2018-03-16T16:19:06Z")
I used to clean bathrooms at a movie theater and the women’s was by far the worst smelling. It wasn’t the stinky poop smell, it was the underlying raw meat/iron smell that permeated everything. I don’t really get grossed out by anything so it really wasn’t terribly bad, but it was constant and impossible to remove. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/34 "2018-03-16T16:26:27Z")
After reading all of this, I think I’ll wait another hour before eating lunch. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/35 "2018-03-16T16:35:47Z")
I used to clean the bathrooms at a zoo, as well as animal cages of all kinds, so I feel I have a certain level of expertise in this subject. The gents smelt (to me) worse than the ladies, but the ladies always had a window open, while it was often closed in the gents if it was a bit breezy. Both had a fan, but they were a bit rubbish. For the animal hijack, herbivores are by far the least smelly, carnivores are much worse, but omnivores are just the worst. Meerkats won the stinkiest animals contest, by general consensus of the staff, with leaf-cutter ants coming in a somewhat surprising second. I think the ants got artificially bumped up the rankings though, because who expects ants to stink? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/36 "2018-03-16T17:45:48Z")
Leaf-cutter ants grow fungus to eat - that’s what all the leaf-cutting is about, to provide fungus-food - so basically their nest is full of rotting stuff. Yeah, that’s going to stink. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/37 "2018-03-16T22:33:05Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Leaf-cutter ants grow fungus to eat - that’s what all the leaf-cutting is about, to provide fungus-food - so basically their nest is full of rotting stuff. Yeah, that’s going to stink. You couldn’t smell it normally, the nest itself had a faint mushroomy aroma, with just a hint of compost. Quite pleasant, really. The smell came from the moat keeping them in; they dumped all their anty trash in there. No noticeable smell most of the time, but when you drained the water this amazing stench appeared out of nowhere. The first time anyone cleaned it, they always thought it hadn’t been drained in months. It was actually done at least twice a week… ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/38 "2018-03-16T22:36:42Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > the underlying raw meat/iron smell that permeated everything. what…??? 😕 menstruation? or what? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/39 "2018-03-17T00:30:32Z")
My shit don’t stink.😉 ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005/40 "2018-03-17T02:01:21Z")
Ms. P is a vegetarian, and I’m not sure I’ve ever had a problem going to the head after her. I grew up going in after my dad, which made anyone else’s smell like the sweetest perfume. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-badly-do-you-women-stink-up-the-bathroom/764005.md?page=3)