@bhavy Yes, in a technical way they indeed are just holes on the ground. But all the advances were made with comfort in mind, which tells me that crouching while taking a dump is not the best way to relieve our bowels.
@Kynnath I'm sure he was full of assumptions of her from rumors and decided that she was not worth his time. If the author makes him ML I'll be disheartened, because even if he mistreated her by silly mistakes, he didn't care enough to know more about her .