/johnny
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...
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.
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.
Practice kung fu. Use foot to put seat up and down.
Seat up if you value mechanical simplicity. Females dominate the down position and males use both up and down; therefore, the courtesy should favor males.
Seat down if you value women. Sacrifice is the key to masculine dominance and domestic tranquility.
Women often say they have to use the toilet in the dark at night, so men should always put the lid down.
Only a fool sits down without first checking the seat. Depending on someone else to do what you wont do is lazy.
Just another step towards forcing men to sit while peeing.
My simple rule: put it back the way I found it.