It seems like people are constantly assuming women are too pretty, too feminine, and too doll-like to possibly have regular bodily functions. No one knows this better than John Updike, a renowned 20th-century author who had no idea how female bodily functions work.

Julia Carpenter, a journalist, was recently reading one of Updike's novels when she found a passage that claimed that all women have trouble urinating and that men are wholly superior at urination.