Just a single data point: a housemate of mine installed a bidet in one of our toilets, and as a result of the way the bidet changed the overall shape of the toilet and the positioning of the seat and so forth, my genitalia were physically smushed up against the front of the bowl when I sat. Like actually touching the porcelain. This was unpleasant.
I don’t consider this a dealbreaker for bidets =P. But it’s a bit of weight on your second point; there are ways bidets can fail to be great and fail to be a harmless improvement over the status quo.
I’m a bit hungry for … the thing that bidets are a metaphor for, here? Like, I think there’s an interesting object-level question about the adoption of (almost strictly) superior ways-of-being, but I’m more curious about something like “what does the non-adoption of bidets tell us about how we are probably thinking and behaving sub-optimally elsewhere?”
I’m a bit hungry for … the thing that bidets are a metaphor for, here? Like, I think there’s an interesting object-level question about the adoption of (almost strictly) superior ways-of-being, but I’m more curious about something like “what does the non-adoption of bidets tell us about how we are probably thinking and behaving sub-optimally elsewhere?”
That’s the post that I wanted to write, actually— but I wasn’t sure how to do it without being too aggressive
I’d like to note that that particular problem is that your housemate got a bidet that didn’t fit the toilet. This is a somewhat common problem since the top tier bidet (which certain types tend to want) doesn’t come in the most standard toilet size.
My boyfriend has done the same thing and I find it low grade bothersome. At some point in time, I’ll make him upgrade the toilet to match the bidet. (Because God forbid we downgrade the ultra fancy bidet)
Just a single data point: a housemate of mine installed a bidet in one of our toilets, and as a result of the way the bidet changed the overall shape of the toilet and the positioning of the seat and so forth, my genitalia were physically smushed up against the front of the bowl when I sat. Like actually touching the porcelain. This was unpleasant.
I don’t consider this a dealbreaker for bidets =P. But it’s a bit of weight on your second point; there are ways bidets can fail to be great and fail to be a harmless improvement over the status quo.
I’m a bit hungry for … the thing that bidets are a metaphor for, here? Like, I think there’s an interesting object-level question about the adoption of (almost strictly) superior ways-of-being, but I’m more curious about something like “what does the non-adoption of bidets tell us about how we are probably thinking and behaving sub-optimally elsewhere?”
That’s the post that I wanted to write, actually— but I wasn’t sure how to do it without being too aggressive
I’d like to note that that particular problem is that your housemate got a bidet that didn’t fit the toilet. This is a somewhat common problem since the top tier bidet (which certain types tend to want) doesn’t come in the most standard toilet size.
My boyfriend has done the same thing and I find it low grade bothersome. At some point in time, I’ll make him upgrade the toilet to match the bidet. (Because God forbid we downgrade the ultra fancy bidet)