
Originally Posted by
RoseWhite
*puts dukes up*
Look. Greedidlady summed it up pretty well. PART of it is about falling into the water, literally, if the seat is left up. Try it sometime, guys - I insist. Leave the seat up, and then try to sit ON the rim. How does that feel? Hmm?
The other one is an aesthetic one, which simply supports the above. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION. Everyone here, just LOOK at the toilet with the lid left up. It LOOKS WRONG, doesn't it? It's supposed to look wrong. It looks like a door left ajar. Frankly, I think that ultimately both seat AND lid should be put down whern finished, ideally, so that's on both the man and the woman.
And about the issue of leaving the seat down resulting in spraying problems. Look. NOWHERE is it written - I promise -that men have to pee standing up. It's true! That's a choice, and I suspect that some part of you guys does it because they enjoy the taking-aim-with-your-weapon part of it. Come ooonnnnn, think about it and admit it. It may be convenient when camping or watering the roadside bushes on long driving trips (and I confess that I envy you on that point), but inside, in homes especially, it's a choice.
Point of fact: I have dated not one but TWO men, long-term, who regularly peed sitting down as well. They were secure enough in their masculinity that they didn't buy into any macho bullshit teasing about such an act making them girly - they just knew it wasn't true, and preferred to take 2 minutes to get off their feet. After all, they both reasoned, they sat down to shit & didn't feel their manliness was compromised, so what was different about peeing, other than force of habit and memories of potty-training when they stood and aimed for the Cheerio that Mommy put in there for a focal point, making it into a game? Nothing, they realized. Therefore, they sat, and for them, having the lid down was just as important to them as it was to me. Life was harmonious.
But ultimately: Potayto, potahto. It's an age-old argument never to be won.
*heads back to her corner of the ring*
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