Posted on 04/18/2014 3:58:50 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Dear Crabby,
A recent column of yours attempted to answer some questions posed by an individual identified as “Full of Questions.” One of the questions was “Who is in charge of putting the toilet seat down?” Your rather glib answer was “Whoever put the seat up.”
I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I think you overlooked a more fundamental question that must be considered, namely: Why is it necessary to put the seat down in the first place?
After all, if one leaves the seat up, the next user can easily enough put the seat down if she or he wishes to use the facility in seat-down mode. On the other hand, if he (and in nearly all cases it will be a he) wishes to use it with the seat up, it will already be up and ready to go, so to speak. It’s easy to see that over the long run it will maximize efficiency to just leave the seat wherever it is and let the next user move it if necessary.
Now, I know some folks (women mostly) will say that a toilet with the seat up is not aesthetically pleasing, and is even a little gross. Come on, people! I’ve seen lots of toilets in seat-down mode that look pretty disgusting, too. The sad fact is that, unless it is cleaned after every use, a toilet can look pretty bad no matter how you maneuver the seat.
Generally speaking, I’m not the kind of person who subscribes to conspiracy theories, but clearly this whole seat-down business is another passive-aggressive attempt by women to demean and control men.
Sincerely,
Male Chauvinist Pig in Yakima
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I have never understood that either. There are times when men need to put the seat down and they just... put the seat down.
Likewise, as the writer implies, the best presentation of a toilet is with the cover down, which makes it gender-neutral. Both men AND women must adjust the toilet to their respective needs.
Any man who has lived with females knows the default setting is seat down. Just a fact of life. A little thing which can help ensure domestic tranquility.
The easy answer to this if for the man just not to put the seat up in the first place...
Personally I just put in a bidet and use it as a urinal...solved the whole toilet see thing because its doesn’t have one..and women can’t complaint because bidets are classy European stuff don’t you know
If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
Real men put the seat down because they don’t want to be woken from a sound sleep at 2 a.m. by a pregnant woman past her due date who sat into the toilet instead of onto it because they forgot.
It’s just one of those little ways to show you care.
Everybody...just put the lid down! For the love of all that is holy, put the lid down!!!
Hey, who’s in charge of putting the seat up? The last person who put it down.
Considering that when the toilet is flushed, many particles of whatever is in the toilet become airborne as they are splashed out of the bowl, it is more sanitary to put both the seat and the lid down prior to flushing.
However, the best answer is to realize that other people are not going to always do it your way and you should forebear and forgive one another.
To men: women are silly and unreasonable over this. Be courteous and put the seat down.
To women: Realize men are pigs and won’t put the seat down. Stop whining.
a better question is why would anybody sit down without looking to see if the seat was acceptable first? Personally I leave it with the seat and the lid down every time before I flush because if you flush with the split up that stuff like everywhere in your bathroom it aerosolizes and sparays everbwhere....nasty!
women who make a big deal about a seat being left up are not trying to control the man they’re trying to remove responsibility for their own failure from themselves. It’s another example of a person not wanting to be responsible for the own circumstances of their life.
That’s what she said..
That's the way I see it.
One of the things this discussion reveals about the sexes:
I have never, ever, had a conversation where a guy gripes about having to raise the toilet seat.
I learned a long time ago that you can avoid any conflicts over the toilet seat by peeing off the back porch.
Exactly, if it becomes an annoying issue, then the man can just ignore the whole thing and never adjust the seat again, and just take it as it comes.
I have never, ever, had a conversation where a guy gripes about having to raise the toilet seat.
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Well, maybe that’s because guys don’t fall in the toilet by raising the seat.
Trust me, if you got up in the middle of the night and landed in the toilet, you just might have something to say about it.
Practice kung fu. Use foot to put seat up and down.
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