To want the ground to swallow me up?

[gingergenius]

I'm working. Consumer Client-facing media type role. Self employed. Experienced and usually very professional. Busy time of year so a bit tired.

I was standing in the toilets of the venue I'm working at with two women who are part of the client group. All the loos are full so we're waiting patiently as you do, as a woman, in a public toilet environment.

My mouth opened and I can't quite believe what came out of it!!!

"Omg it's at times like these you wish you had a penis"

WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING????
I'm mortified.

I feel I need to do the walk of atonement.

@SerfTerf I try to travel light!

Quite Team

if the penis is on a woman it's a female penis.

If you believe that bollocks you'll believe anything.

A penis is male, through and through.
That's not transphobic, it's fact.

No amount of campaigning and brow beating of people will change that fact

OMG! I'm sorry your thread has been hijacked OP as that's clearly what's happened. I'm outta here.

Oh my.

I admit I had entertained some idle thoughts about cracking a joke that you must be trans because you wish you had a penis, but the transwacktivists were faster, it appears.

And they are being transphobic!

OP is clearly a transman, obviously! She wishes she had a penis what more proof do you require?

You calling her transphobic is therefore transphobic, and you should be ashamed of yourselves!

I may ask mnhq to delete this thread. It was meant as a lighthearted omg moment about something that happened to me this afternoon and has somehow been turned into a rant about how a penis is in fact the ruler of the universe and a vagina is a non-thing.

Thankyou all who had a rational response to my mildly awkward penis faux pas. X

... sorry for misgendering you, OP, I obviously meant "he wishes he had a penis" and "you calling him transphobic", SO very sorry!

Haha @VestalVirgin no problem!

I've used the gents (cubicles only obv) on occasion. In concert venues and such like where the Q for the ladies is beyond my pelvic floor exercises. lol.

I made a joke of it and in fairness they were pretty empty at the time.

Men don't give a shit (sorry) and will laugh and say go ahead. I don't care TBH. Needs must and the devil drives!

Bring on the day that ALL loos are communal and urinals are banned.

If anyone comments on your comment, make sure they know you are genderfluid and identify as male whenever you need to pee, and that it is transphobic to criticise you for it.

Where did the notion that OP is transgender come from?

Just wondered.

I got from the post that it is SO much easier for men to go and have a piss communally. Because they have an appendage that is suitable for communal pissing.

So I am wrong then. Sorry if so.

And fwiw, before it gets deleted. Females have vaginas and males have penises.

That's biology.

Identify with whatever gender you choose, and as far as I'm concerned you can identify as a three legged porcupine if that works for you, but your biological sex is your biological sex. Put it this way: you might feel you identify as a fish. Fine! Now Try breathing underwater!

MNHQ? Time to pull the plug I think!

I got from the post that it is SO much easier for men to go and have a piss communally. Because they have an appendage that is suitable for communal pissing.

According to transactivists, said appendage can be female, if it is attached to a male-bodied person who "feels like a woman" for whatever reason.

But at the same time, a toddler saying that she wants a penis would be proof of her being trans and having to be put on puberty blockers and testosterone.

Don't feel bad if you don't understand it. Most people don't.

@VestalVirgin

I don't really give a damn.

My point was in relation to OP. I got the feeling that her post (she said "as a woman"), that having a penis was easier in the public loos.

I agree that it is.

The Q for the ladies is snakelike for ages, but the gents is get in and go!

But I use the men's loos when I absolutely need to (cannot hold on anymore) and don't give a damn either. Neither do they IME.

@VestalVirgin

I don't really give a damn.

My point was in relation to OP. I got the feeling that her post (she said "as a woman"), that having a penis was easier in the public loos.

I agree that it is.

The Q for the ladies is snakelike for ages, but the gents is get in and go!

But I use the men's loos when I absolutely need to (cannot hold on anymore) and don't give a damn either. Neither do they IME.

Apologies for double post there.

What the heck is going on, on MN? Every sodding time a penis is mentioned, someone seems to jumps on the thread and starts accusing people of being Transphobic.

FUCK OFF YOU TWATS !!

I did not get any transphobic vibe from OP at all.

Who did?

Every sodding time a penis is mentioned, someone seems to jumps on the thread and starts accusing people of being Transphobic.

I think they might have some program that searches mumsnet and automatically directs them to threads that is about anything remotely connected to trans.

Might have been the penis, might have been the toilet.

Sorry for derailing, OP, but since you asked for the thread to be removed anyway, I guess it doesn't matter.

😂 female penis

IfYouGoDownToTheWoodsToday male twats or female twats?

Bollox.

Sits back and pours a long drink

Even with the whole to sit or to hover debate; having a penis would infinitely make it so much quicker

It's not good to hover. It doesn't fully empty your bladder.
It's just the positioning thing. Naturally, you would squat.
It makes you vulnerable for an infection if you do it a lot.
Just saying.