I don't know if this happens wherever you live, but in my family there's one toilet. Whenever I use the restroom I have to lift the seat up (as to not splash my liquids on the seat) and then the girls in my family complain that I didn't put the seat back down. Why should I have to put the seat down for them? In my opinion it's actually dirtier to lift the seat up (because it's next to the toilet rim) then to put the seat down.
I have tried to complain about this issue before and the girls in my family got triggered at me for even starting such a complacent argument. It's like they were born with this right and everyone should accept it. That's when my dad signaled me to stop because he has tried the same argument before and got shut down. If anything needs to be "equal rights" it needs to be the rights to the toilet seat being up and not having to hear a complaint everytime I do it.
[–]DangZagnut2 points3 points4 points (0 children) | Copy Link
How weird. Living alone seems to have solved this issue.
[–]NickTesla20181 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Just stick her head in the toilet, and we'll call it even.
[–]MaestroLogical0 points1 point2 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Had this out with my ex fiance when we moved in together 14 years ago.
She was all about equality.
First time she bitched about it, was a long the lines of "I gotta say this now before it becomes normal/tolerated, you have to put the seat down for me."
I countered with; "Then you have to raise it for me."
She got a puzzled look.
"It's only fair" I said as if stating a fact.
"If I go to use it and the seat is down, I'll raise it. If you go to use it and the seat is raised, you lower it. If I got to use it and the seat is raised, yay! If you go to use it and the seat is lowered, yay! See, equality!"
She laughed/sighed. A peculiar sound the laugh-sigh, but it told me she wasn't having it so I gave her my best 'okay I'll hear you out' face.
"Do you like having sex with me?" She replied with a questioning tone. I decided not to say anything, trying to decide how to handle the fact she was jumping to using sex as a weapon so soon. I fully expected her to counter with, if you don't do what I want, no nookie for you! Just the thought of it was getting my blood hot.
"Look, I know how it seems." She softened her voice as she spoke.
"To you it looks like women wanting special treatment, wanting men to get dirty so we don't have to, but there is a real reason we don't want to touch the seat before peeing. When do you wash your hands?" She ended with the question out of left field.
"When I get done" I bluntly responded.
"Exactly!" She proclaimed.
My 'huh' face must have gave me away because she went back to explaining before I could ask.
"Should Women be expected to wash their hands before and after peeing? Because when we have to lower the seat, we do. We go to pee, see the seat left up and lower it, then we have to wash our hands before sitting down. Because if we don't, we end up wiping with said hand and lo and behold, yeast infection city! UTI train for 1! Because we have a big open wound down there, a hot moist breeding ground for any tiny little bacteria that leaps from our fingers to higher ground. So either women take the chance of increased urinary problems, they end up washing their hands twice per trip OR... they bitch out the man leaving it up."
I had no counter. This was news to me but sounded plausible enough I couldn't protest. Her health was important to me, as was my own and I did enjoy touching her vagina on occasion so... I started being a good little boy and lower it.
Asked my doctor a few years later and she said it was a possibility for infection but was highly unlikely, unless the girl was easily prone to infections (which my fiance was it turns out)
I don't bother doing it anymore. I live in a bachelor pad and when girls come over they can just deal with it, wash those hands style. But figured I'd relay the story so guys know it's not as black and white as it first seems, for some girls it's not just laziness, they've been told matter of fact that they'll get sick if they do!