The kidneys work to remove impurities from the bloodstream. Whatever gets processed is excreted in the form of urine. For those without kidney failures, it usually works like clockwork, except whenever you have to take a mandatory drug test. No matter how much water you drink, you just can't "go". Whenever you are in the middle of something else important, like the good part in the movie, you can't help but need "go". Karma seems to hold a lot of pull in the world of "going".
Different apparatuses have been created to collect and dispose of urine. Trees, canyons, walls, cups, buckets, toilets, balconies and urinals all serve this purpose. Of all of the different objects, one has the most stigma, urinals.
Urinals have one purpose and one purpose only, to collect urine from males. There are nothing fancy about them, they simply are mounted on a wall and have water released from the upper portion of the contraptions. Gravity does the rest. There is no suction and no hydraulic engineering marvels about them. They collect, release, then flush away. The men that use urinals do so, because it is quick, efficient and they simply can. I, myself, have used a urinal or two and can't complain. Urinals with partitions are widely used, yet urinals without partitions built between them are seldom used. Why is this?
My understanding is that some men are either well endowed, or not. Being well endowed is a matter of opinion and reference. A concern for some men, is that they do not want to have to deal with a potential situation of another man looking over and complimenting or prodding about. Insulting one's manhood can be devastating to the psyche and could possibly destroy even the most egotistical of males. This behavior all goes back to childhood years. Everything is compared, everything. At what point or age does a man move on from hiding, or being concerned with self-perceived inadequacies? Is there such a stepping stone in life? I believe there is. This stepping stone is called the "screw it phenomena".
The "screw it phenomena" is the point in life when you realize that you aren't the only one. You are not Neo, and you definitely are not special. The concern that you have with yourself is a concern that many others share as well. Groups and communities are built on such inadequacies. Once you realize that the "thing" that you have been hiding is the same ratio as the other "things" in this world (for the most part), you too can use the urinal in the middle and will never have to wait in line or casually walk over to the enclosed toilet that just opened up. FREEDOM!!!!!
haha... Not a problem I have, obviously, but the "Empowered Individuals ONLY' also refers to the seat left open between 2 men in a movie theater. (My hubby and I call it 'The Gay Seat').
ReplyDeleteWe observed such phenomenon once at a guy movie (can't remember which) where it seems all of Georgia Southern's Football team was in attendance. And I kid you not, it took the whole theater to seat them since they refused to sit next to each other! If I'd had a camera....