# Sometimes, in the winter, I hate being female **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593 "2005-02-23T22:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/41 "2005-02-24T23:51:24Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Peeing on the seat is not the answer. Peeing on the seat is _never the answer._ Damn straight. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/42 "2005-02-25T00:11:44Z")
There’s a local ocean-front park that has those stainless steel toilets. They also have stalls with no doors on them–all in a row, so that everyone who comes in has to parade by the occupied ones. You can hurt yourself trying to pee that fast. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/43 "2005-02-25T00:18:41Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > There’s a local ocean-front park that has those stainless steel toilets. They also have stalls with no doors on them–all in a row, so that everyone who comes in has to parade by the occupied ones. > > You can hurt yourself trying to pee that fast. What?! I had a bad dream once, about a bathroom with no doors. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/44 "2005-02-25T00:21:00Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > Forget toilet seats. How about the gender unfairness that is peeing in the woods in winter? First time I’ve heard of a female suffering from penis envy… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/45 "2005-02-25T00:28:46Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > There’s a local ocean-front park that has those stainless steel toilets. They also have stalls with no doors on them–all in a row, so that everyone who comes in has to parade by the occupied ones. > > You can hurt yourself trying to pee that fast. Never mind not wanting other people watching _me_ do my business in there, I have no particular desire to see anybody _else_ sitting there, straining and grunting. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/46 "2005-02-25T00:29:33Z")
**Anaamika** , it is rather like a bad dream. I think the idea of making everything steel to make it difficult to deface or otherwise vandalize. The door thing is to discourage illegal activity and keep “vagrants” from hanging out in there (as if). It’s a popular picnic spot that often draws crowds of folks who couldn’t afford the fancy hotels on the other side of the road. The local gentry don’t want the riff-raff to get too comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/47 "2005-02-25T00:38:23Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > What?! I had a bad dream once, about a bathroom with no doors. A common theme of my nightmares is to have toilets with no doors, or big communal toilets that everyone has to use at one time. I hate the weird dystopias I dream about. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/48 "2005-02-25T00:57:59Z")
> [@AwSnappity](#): > > A common theme of my nightmares is to have toilets with no doors, or big communal toilets that everyone has to use at one time. I hate the weird dystopias I dream about. Oh, so it’s not just me. And hey, just as I wrote this I happened to notice your Valentine on the wall with all the others. Just kind of a cool coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/49 "2005-02-25T01:23:59Z")
I frequently have low-grade nightmares about bathrooms where everything is just a little bit poor… missing doors, toilets about to flood over, urinals which are a bit too public. Never hidous sewagey messes, and there are never other people there watching me or anything… just enormous mazelike bathrooms full of fixtures I don’t quite feel comfortable using. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/50 "2005-02-25T01:30:15Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > Ok, so we’re not the only toilet seat users, but what about skirts in the winter and the wind that blows up them, huh? _shiver_ Pants. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/51 "2005-02-25T01:31:55Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > Pants. Yeah, that was my thought but I didn’t want to sound snarky or anything. Nothing, nothing, can induce me to wear a skirt when it’s that cold \*and \* windy. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/52 "2005-02-25T03:01:20Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Never mind not wanting other people watching _me_ do my business in there, I have no particular desire to see anybody _else_ sitting there, straining and grunting. Lordy-and I have yet to warm up to communal dressing rooms, ala Loehman’s etc. I think I’d be holding it for a “wee” while… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593/53 "2005-02-25T18:32:57Z")
Communal dressing rooms? Yikes. All the contortions and completely ungraceful poses required to get into some clothes…I’ll take my Canadian nudity prudery any day, thank yew very much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-in-the-winter-i-hate-being-female/291593.md?page=2)