urinary health, schools
It occurs to me that I and many many others grew up being told in school to "try to hold it in until after class" when we needed to take a piss, and yet every single medical professional I've spoken to in this kidney transplantation process has told me that doing so is bad for your kidneys, even for healthy people.
Same story for toilets in public spaces. Often simply not available (whether non-existent or too expensive or too dirty) and the response to criticism about this is to "just hold it in until you get home".
Why exactly are we teaching people to "hold it in" if we *know* that doing so is bad for you?
urinary health, schools
@joepie91 this is something I really appreciated when I was at university
none of this raising your hand, asking if you can go to the bathroom bullshit
just leave
you're an adult who can decide how to spend your time
urinary health, schools
@joepie91 But seriously, it's a power trip. There is literally no reason to force kids to hold it. "You will miss part of the class" Oh please, do you really think that a child that desperately needs to pee will be able to concentrate on whatever you are teaching? If you are so concerned, put the class on hold and do a short quiz of something.
I really wonder how is this not classified as child abuse.
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@joepie91 because if we took all the healthcare advice seriously we wouldn't get away with all the blatantly anti-human shit we get away with?
@joepie91 for public toilets its about cost-cutting, so we don't dare bother those poor billionaires with paying as much as - say 15 percent of their income.
Where school toilets are concerned, its entirely about ~ 50% of teachers being obsessive control freaks being put in a position of near absolute authority over defenseless minors. What could possibly go wrong?
@Bfritz0815 well there's the cost-cutting aspect, also the moralizing drugs aspect, and the contributuing to the suffering of homeless people aspect. Literally any segment of the population society doesn't like the first move is always "take away the bathroom" as a means of trying to force them out of public existence.
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There's a fantastic line, I think in Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" that you can judge the state of a civilisation by the number and condition of its public toilets.
urinary health, schools, genital ment
@joepie91 and there's also a fun patriarchal dimension of this issue affecting the part of the population that doesn't have a penis even more.