HUMOR/BOOK REVIEW
A Thoughtful Analysis of the Book “Everybody Poops”
A classic that not many people talk about seriously enough and an important epic for generations
Someone had to say it. Every living thing poops. Everybody poops. A fact that many of us don’t want to think about but something that we all do. We all eat. That food gets processed in our bodies. Then we defecate.
This book starts by comparing animal poop sizes. Elephant poop, mouse poop, and even asks the question about how big whale poop is without showing us what that might look like. I’d imagine they’d need the illustration of more than one page to show that massive load. That might be another book in itself.
This book is designed to help infants understand this simple fact and that they need to learn how to properly dispose of that poop. The thing is, this is a wonderful book to show children so they learn at a young age to potty train and therefore take most of their poops in the toilet.
I guess my sister didn’t pick up on this fact. I don’t even know if she’s shown her children this book. She probably thinks it’s too communist for them to read. She has just let them stay in diapers until they’re no longer comfortable doing so. I won’t even mention how old her youngest children are still in diapers but you get my point.
I think this book is an important read for everyone. Even non-toddlers. I’ve seen poop in places where poop really shouldn’t be but sadly is. San Francisco has an entire map dedicated to the poop that can be found in the city. It’s depressing. That’s public poop for a different reason but still crazy to imagine that so much poop is out there not in a toilet. Which again is okay because we shouldn’t shame those who have to.
Other animals poop in public too. If you’ve ever been to a farm or the country somewhere, you’ve smelled more than your share of animal poop for a lifetime. This book also makes it easier for you to cope with it because of that. This book is simple yet elegant in the fact that everybody poops and it’s nothing to be ashamed of.
We are taught the basic way to get rid of our poop. Everybody knows how to do it. We should all have basic access to get rid of it. Most of us do. I don’t want to get too political here. So I’ll just say that generations of people now have been saved because of the publishing and translation of this book.
This book is also available in Spanish and Thai. So yay to having more countries have access to help the youth of today have less shame in their basic bodily functions and learn how to properly potty. Even if they have to resort to pooping in public, at least that shame isn’t going to be too terrible for them.
The takeaway I got from rereading this book many years later after helping my nieces to potty train over a decade ago is that we could all benefit from going back to this book once in a while.
I’m not going to suddenly be into Scheiße porn. “Two Girls, One Cup” was enough to traumatize after the 32nd rewatch. We shouldn’t be ashamed of our bodily functions. Many people have it worse. And this book looks to remove that shame and show us that all animals need to do this very simple natural act.
