Young women in Sweden, Germany and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene -- avoiding the splash factor -- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the English magazine The Spectator, "more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women." One argument is that if women can't do it, then men shouldn't either. Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is "a nasty macho gesture," suggestive of male violence.
A feminist group at Stockholm University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. In Australia, an Internet survey shows that 17 percent of those polled think men ought to sit, while 70 percent believe they should be allowed to stand. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year-old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. "What else can I do?," said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.
nasty macho gesture, what? That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. We do it cause we can. Hey, if I'm at home, I'll sit, but otherwise 1) don't want to sit on those nasty public seats, 2) it's quicker, easier and you get the peep out the competition, yo.
People do the funniest things. Maybe in Sweden, Germany and Australia men and women share the same public toilets, otherwise this story makes no sense.
Saying that, I have always felt incredibly triumphant in my masculinity when standing to pee (sometimes no-handed while whistling!!) and to be honest there's nothing like a bit of daily nasty macho gesturing to brighten up my day.
What I can't understand is how do women know if the guy is standing or sitting? call me old fashioned but when I go for a pee the door is shut and sometimes even locked.
H@ts I havaen’t learned to master that skill yet..lol..”hey look ma,,, no hands!!!” lol.
Somehow I conjure up images of a water hose uncontrollably spaying around soaking everything in sight..lol
Man, talk about going overboard, some women are just too much of a feminist for their own good. Of all the things to be concerned with, they are bothered by a man standing while whizzing?
Dekka hit it on the hose, I mean nose. Classic case of envy here. The lady who dumps her boyfriends because they stand is crazy. The men who comply are idiots.
On a lighter note, looking through the eyes of an inventor, I think I see a market here. I’d invent some apparatus women could tie around their waist so they can stand while taking a leak. I’d make a fortune in German Bara bonds….lol
