Interesting take. I’d not heard about urination, but drinking heavily is obviously a given.

The minutiae of who went where and what exactly they got up to isn’t really that relevant. The point is that he withdrawing room exists because men felt they should be separate from the women just because they were men. Whether that was because they didn’t feel women were “up to the intellectual discourse level” or whether it was because they didn’t want to misbehave in front of “the delicate women” doesn’t really take from the fact that it was a sexist attitude.