Word: toileting
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...sort of social critique of today’s humdrum realities, engaging a universal longing for something beyond the banal.But Holder’s material doesn’t spark much more interest than that. Title characters like “The Woman Who Sat on the Toilet for Two Years” fail to enthuse. What seems to be Holder’s heroic effort to show readers what lies beneath the grim faces he writes about is ultimately unsatisfying. To say that he even succeeds in rendering his insipid characters relatable is dubious. Is a woman...
Early in Yu Hua's novel Brothers, young Baldy Li sticks his head into a hole in a public toilet and hovers inches above the putrid waste below, all for a glimpse of naked female bottoms on the far side of the partition. For the next 600-plus pages of this satire of modern China, the reader is suspended in similar fashion - curious but teetering dangerously close to the muck...
...According to Weishan, the preservation of the room’s features from the original floor plan to the antiquated pull-chain toilet is intended to not only pay tribute to the former president, but to serve as testament to the dramatic changes in student life that have occurred since FDR first occupied the suite more than ten decades...
...right. It doesn't matter if you're a male or female, it's not about strength - it's a mental and strategy game. Women have not always been allowed to compete with the men. There were some rules about sexual privacy - that toilet issue held women back a number of years. They weren't able to fish. That got thrown out, and a number of ladies started competing. They certainly could compete with all the guys. It's just that a lady has never qualified for this event. They decided to open up it up to one position from...
Wait, what were the rules about "sexual privacy?" What's the "toilet issue?" Can you explain this...