> but a bathroom is a bathroom, and the activities therein are not rituals.
Why not? It's only because you bring your own bias of what a ritual is that you don't view bathroom rituals as a ritual. Either that, or you're so steeped in bathroom culture that you fail to understand it as a ritual.
It's as if I said: "A wheel is just a circular object, a shape. It's an indefensible and incorrect conclusion to say that it is a technology."
Why not? It's only because you bring your own bias of what a ritual is that you don't view bathroom rituals as a ritual. Either that, or you're so steeped in bathroom culture that you fail to understand it as a ritual.
It's as if I said: "A wheel is just a circular object, a shape. It's an indefensible and incorrect conclusion to say that it is a technology."