How psychology, gender roles, and design explain the distinctive way we behave in the world’s stalls.
When Oprah Winfrey served on a Chicago jury in 2004, she couldn’t go to the bathroom attached to the jury room unless her fellow jurors sang to drown out the noise. One of the songs they sang was Kumbaya.
When Alexis Sanchez used the bathroom in her college dorm, she brought her iPod with her.
“I would blast it,” she says. “I would play ‘D. A. N. C. E.’ by Justice, and some Maroon 5 song. That was my poop playlist. It had to be a ritual or else I would focus too much on if there were other girls there who could hear or smell what was happening.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/the-private-lives-of-public-bathrooms/360497/
