Why do men need to take a device to the bathroom?!

[BumbleBee27]

Is it just my oh who can't possibly go for a crap without taking his iPad with him?! I'm led to believe this is a 'man thing' and many of my friends partners need some sort of entertainment while on the loo. For me it's a get in and out ASAP scenario not an opportunity for relaxation.

He can be in there for ages! Wonder what he's looking it anyone else?

Someone suggested last week that the reason is, women push but men just sit and wait for it to fall out of their bum!

I think there could be truth in this. I don't even go into the loo until I can tell the moment is fast approaching. Why waste time by just sitting there? Why go in before you are ready and just sit and wait.

Exactly, if it's not ready to come out then surely you don't need to go yet

My husband does the same he just loves to watch YouTube and some times suddenly he just connects his phone in tv and it causes that my tv contents changed 😏 and it is the annoying one.

I'm not sure why anyone needs to read whole they poo because if it routinely takes so long that people are talking about "being stuck without anything to read" there's a problem with that person's diet! Sitting on the toilet straining for extended periods causes piles/ hemaroids eventually.

I'm not baffled by why people use the toilet to "hide" / take a break but whether it's blame worthy or not depends on a lot of things, mainly how many toilets there are and whether their "hiding" means someone else is doing their share of unavoidable or time sensitive tasks such as childcare.

When I'm doing a shift alone at work I sometimes hide out in the toilet for 10 minutes when I know all the clients can manage without me for ten minutes because I will otherwise get no other break. I love my job and it's not one where you constantly have to rush, there are times when nothing urgent and time sensitive needs doing as well as pressured times, but the toilet is the only place I can actually be alone. Wherever else I am my clients assume I'd like them to sit and chat to me if I sit down with a cup of tea to take my unpaid break, or someone will want something, want to show me something, want me to help with something or do something or go somewhere immediately. In a nine hour shift I generally need that five or ten minutes completely alone at some point in order to remain patient, and I'm not paid for 30 minutes of the shift as it's a compulsory "break" which there is no actual way to take except in the toilet!

So I understand why people do it but think if it's actually because it takes them so long to defecate that they get bored and actually can't leave the toilet so are driven to read shampoo bottles they have a problem they need to address!

@Jasmineallenestate I was about to say when I was little and forgot something I'd read the back of the shampoo or toothpaste

I have 3 sons and 1 daughter ( adults). My sons all take over the toilet with their phones and my dd and me don't.
It really annoys me, not least because we only have one toilet and I'm hopping about desperate to go and they take ages. I dunno if it's a gender issue, but it's fucking gross!

I am also on the toilet right now. I don't think it's just a 'man thing'

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We have better pushing muscles than them! So makes sense we more effective.

I said to DH if it was men who did it quicker they would announce "I'm going for a power shit" and go on about how awful it must be for women having substandard strength

Intake my devices with me, I'm easily bored and get little me-time so seems like a good opportunity

Porn usually. Doesn't bother me

I do it too. Not just a man thing!

Men don't really go to knock one out in the middle of the day to paid rape porn?

These devices must me covered in germs 🤢

To drown out the moaning of nagging wives asking them what's taking them so long

• must be

When did how quickly someone is able to use the loo turn into a contest?

These devices must me covered in germs

Presumably, they put them down before commencing wiping? I certainly do. Assuming this is the case, how is it any different from one's clothing?

My DH does and my autistic DC also. My DC was advised by the incontinence nurse to take the Ipad In, among other things. I do not see the issue. I regularly wipe their screens daily as I do the door handles, remote controls , banister and light switches. Not a problem to me.

I’m in the bath

My ExH used to take a book into the toilet. Would sit there for up to an hour reading. Personally, if I've had a shit I don't want to sit in amongst the smell for longer than I have to. 🤢

I put a little shelf on the wall for all his books in the end as they started to fill up and block the tiny window.

Millions of threads on here asking why on earth men take so long to have a crap.

Vast amounts of women find it baffling.

All the men I've gone out with have taken ludicrous amounts of time to have a shit. Of course we notice.

I think male pushing muscles are inferior which makes sense when you think about it.

Mayeb think of it in same terms as men talking about women taking ages to get ready? Although the reasons for that are more obvious.

I do it and I’m not a man. I also don’t wank in there, or watch porn

I get the daily news update from my partner after he's taken a shit. It's a daily occurrence!

I can never understand how my husband takes 20 mins to do a shit. Does it take that long to come out? I can't eat my head around it. I take a max of a few minutes in the bathroom and that includes washing my hands etc

My DP (phone in hand) regularly announces that he's "going to go check to see if he needs a poo" then disappears for 40 minutes. why does he need to check? Can they not tell?

They do it because they can.

Men disappear off for a shit and they get 40 mins peace on their phone. The minute i sit down someone has lost something only i can find, or is hungry, or needs something.

Pre kids i’d read on the loo for ages. Post i’ve simply got out the habit as it’s unlikely i’ll manage to sneak of for that long.