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Raising and lowering the big issues
In our thoroughly modern society no subject is safe from sexual politics...not even that most sacred of activities, going to the can. (Also known as Number 1s and Number 2s). On this page you can find out some of the issues feminism has raised/lowered in regard to the toilet seat. It's a subject that every thinking person should understand. This is no piss-take!
It is easy to forget that the toilet has not been around for such a long time. We know that in most parts of the world people still squat in ditches to clear their bowels and bladders. But in the Western world plumbing has been an accepted part of life for decades. In Australia we had the outside toilet for much of the 20th century, until this activity was brought into the home. But the fact remains that it was a stand-up or sit-down toilet.
With the advent of feminist agitation in the 1960s the subject of toiletry etiquette saw increasing controversy. Women were encouraged to identify oppression and unfair treatment in every corner, every crevice and every toilet of their lives. Nowhere is safe from the ravages of male ignorance, incivility and the blighty penis. Feminists have therefore necessarily contemplated their condition and discovered that even men's urinating really pisses them off.
The basis of the issue is that men allegedly leave the rim of the toilet seat up in order to shoot a stream of urine into the bowl, while women invariably sit to defecate or urinate (though some men I know insist women do neither of these things!).
In a relentless quest to expose ideological error and foul play in feminist theory this page analyses the subject and comes up with a golden shower of startling new information, insights and dilemmas.
Let's start with that old bug bear of male logic. What most men haven't figured out is why do women want the lid down all the time. This seems in fact unegalitarian. If everybody just leaves the lid the way they like it then everybody is inconvenienced equally. Aaahhh, that poor male rationality.
Modern women don't see it that way. They like men to do what they are told. It is an exercise in domination, to test whether the individual man will obey instructions or whether he will resist. In a sense she wants to usurp his throne by emasculating his toiletry habits...turning his gendered biological need into a social unacceptable activity. The evidence for this is confirmed by the various other aspects of feminist ideology.
We know already that Freud identified penis envy among some women. Feminism is of course penis envy writ large. So the obvious question some readers will be asking is "why don't feminists piss standing up?" Indeed, any man confronted by this prickly subject should use this as his response. If women want true equality with men and enter the realm of macho power then aiming for the bowl will be the new goal. Pissing like a girl is for sissies.
Are there any ways that men can resist the encroachments on their freedom and fight back? I know an unconscious method used by one guy I used to know. You see he had the perfect solution. He just never lifted the seat at all, like a true chauvenist.
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Visit Restrooms.org Attention ladies! Time to prove your mettle.
