Why is the Internet obsessed with what women do in the bath?

One speaker even noted that the ads showed that women were very busy in the bath for a very long time. This 1872 ad shows a woman writing a book while taking a bath in the bathtub. "A woman's whim: or genie and water – a literary woman from Beacon Street, Boston, writes a book in a bath," says the legend in the New York newspaper. Imagine if the manuscript fell into it. Disaster.