Huh. [link] Okay, I *used* to be able to make it through a work day without peeing, but I know that's not healthy. Or normal. Is this a vaguely practical thing to do? Or can we just admit that it's really hard, and it really sucks to be between that rock and that hard place and then not raise our risk UTIs for a month?

I'm not a big namer of things. I've never named a car. The cats coming to their names is kind of hit and miss.

Dean will come when he's good and ready, Penny usually comes to her name and she'll come to some of her nicknames. Normally I'm not big on nicknaming cats, but Penny has ended up with quite a collection (Penners, Pen Pen, and Penn-a-licious).

If I was responsible for the bathrooms, I'd just be happy they were being used less often. I don't understand how this works as a statement.

I don't understand how this works as a statement.

If you're the sort of person who'd do this, don't you already get the inequity? You don't get a badge for the pee pee dance, or anything.

Wait--is there a badge?

If you're the sort of person who'd do this, don't you already get the inequity?

That's what I figured, so I don't understand how it influences others, unless you stand in the hall in front of the bathrooms doing the pee pee dance while explaining the inequities of the Male and Female signs.

I think it's a "gain empathy to understand the importance of the issue, so that you will hopefully actively support it" kind of thing. Although that was based on a cursory reading.

I think it's a "gain empathy to understand the importance of the issue, so that you will hopefully actively support it" kind of thing

But it pretty much means trying to not use any public bathrooms for a month. If you're going to even try that, aren't you already pretty down with the cause?

Or maybe there are more people that haven't started thinking about it yet, and they will start next month.

There's being down with a cause, and then there's "holy crap I tried to deal with it for a WEEK and got a UTI." Walking a mile in hir shoes, so to speak.

I did know someone who refused to use public restrooms, but it was because he had some kind of phobia about them. If a bunch of us were out at a bar or restaurant or something, and he had to go to the bathroom, he'd take the Metro home and use the one there, then call us to find out where to rejoin us.

Completely off topic, but I want this dress! Except I also want it to be a little bit longer.