Why do men have to leave the toilet seat down, but women won't think of us and leave it up?

Question

They wanted equal rights, well isn't this part of it?

Answer 1

Because MEN can't fall in and get their bum wet with nasty toilet water!!!! Men sit maybe once a day while a woman has to sit everytime!!!

Answer 2

I've thought of this several times and I'm a women. I've tried to come up with a better rebuttal than, ah ah ah because they should leave it down and I can't.

The best I can come up with is that the toilet looks better when the toilet seat is down....

and

Well guys sit too, just not every time. So it's more efficient to leave the seat down....

Answer 3

Seems to me that this is a big problem. Why don't you just keep the whole toilet seat plus lid down so both of you have to lift it up. Compromise people. Quit sweating the small stuff.

Answer 4

because the toilet came with a seat...and the seat is meant to stay down otherwise they would have just invented the toilet w/o the seat, don't you think?

my questions is... why can't men piss with the toilet seat down? i mean all you have to do is aim, and if you can't make that...well then geez, you needa lil' bit more help there than you think!

Answer 5

this question baffles me , I always thought you were supposed to lift the seat...... then I hear how bad it is to leave it up ?? I am confused , and why dont you just look to see if it is up or down before you sit , I have sat down on the toliet plenty and I aint never fallen in , just cause i pee standing up I still may need to sit to take a dump , so men have the same potential hazzard of ''falling in'' but I aint never heard a dude complain , ..women say there is pea on the seat ,, then oh you left the seat up .........what is it up or down ...........

Answer 6

In my home, everyone closes the lid of the toilet when they are done with their business. So it doesn't matter whether you are male or female. Equal rights here all the way.

Answer 7

Because they DO NOT want ACTUAL equal rights!!!!

They want us to spend all day kissing their ***, because they are emotionally fragile and as such can't handle being treated the way that we men treat each other without spending a month complainingt about us, treat us like ****, and still CALL it equal rights because they assume that they are automatically entitled to every single courtesy that they expect of men no matter what they do, even though us men don't generally have this standard amongst ourselves. Sorry ladies, but when you expect us to treat you more daintily than we treat each others that is NOT EQUAL TREATMENT.

Answer 8

Good question I'll think of my boyfriend next time since you mentioned it. I never get on to him anymore it does no good.
Men dont think to put the toilet seat down is just like women not caring that they blow their mans money on clothes and shoes..Oopps

Answer 9

LOL! Well, even as a man, I have to admit that the plain truth of things is that while women might actually get injured or embarrassed by sitting on a bowl with the seat left up, nothing happens to men when it is left down. Hence, the imbalance.

More interestingly, your question brings up something about which our generation is scarcely aware. Yes, many women were for the Equal Rights Amendment, but the ERA never actually passed. That's not to say, then, that women are inherently unequal either via superiority or inferiority. It is to say that in the eyes of the law in the U.S., even still and most unfortunately, women are not yet treated equally. In fact, that poorer treatment, as a function of the law, is not only a gender bias, by an institutionalized prejudice.

Our legal states as separate, unequal genders in the eyes of the law is why men's and women's restrooms are still separated like Caucasian and African-American public bathrooms were once. It is why women still do not get equal pay for performing the same career tasks and by extrapolation why there are only 11 female executives in the Fortune 500. The ERA failure means that while women can choose to be in the military, they cannot be drafted as would men if ever there were another draft. It is why many sports teams are allowed to remain segregated by gender from the Junior High level all the way up through professional levels. The cycle is endless.

On a more positive note, smaller battles that fall shy of the momentous undertaking that was the ERA have been won and do serve as stepping stones to equal treatment under the law. In absence of a national law forcing equal pay for equal work, some states have implemented procedures to level that playing field. Otherwise, several corporations have also realized that just because the law doesn't force an equal pay rate upon them, that didn't stop them from treating employees equally themselves. Enforcement has, in recent years, made certain to prosecute female teachers who've had sexual relationships with minors to the same extent they would male offenders. Women have won a few local court battles to equalize costs of haircuts and medications and other such consumables across gender lines. Men have won battles to get baby changing stations in men's rooms and paternity leave. Hate crime laws have both directly and implicitly extended the protections availed of law enforcement and prosecution based on gender bias. Sexual harassment proceedings have become focal points of the business world that once swept such actions under the carpet. Laws have gotten tough on date rape, spousal abuse, mechanics that overcharge women, medical malpractice on women, legal rights of single mothers, opening the doors for women into previously all-male institutions, and so on.

While all these triumphs are significant, they are merely a drop in the bucket of what SHOULD BE so long as we profess to be a free and equal nation. It is almost as if the reporting of these drops in the bucket, while educational and inspiring, was alternatively meant to force us to forget how far we still have to go.

Hey, my wife still hates pumping gas, thinking of it as a male job. She hates doing the driving and killing bugs in the house. She also does all the cooking and asks that I take out all the garbage. If these little things are based on male-female, even if we both agree to them, imagine that multiplied by every household, every workplace, and every situation each person can think of for all eternity. That's a pretty hefty bill still needing to be paid. It's no wonder so many such issues seep into the law and matters of basic human rights. Our notions at home can be perfectly healthy, agreeing to them as individuals. There might be nothing wrong with them whatsoever. Yet, all the thoughts based across gender lines being that voluminous, it is simply a matter of history and of odds that such notions crop up in poor practices of law and of business.

Interesting fact, the ERA, while it had met much opposition by males in power, was actually overwhelmingly voted down by women who supposedly did not want to share public bathrooms and did not want to be subject to drafts. I wonder if the women of this generation, given the same rights and responsibilities of a newly proposed ERA, would vote the same way.

Answer 10

I leave it down so my cats won't drink out of the toilet.

Answer 11

If they don't leave it up and we use it, big wop, a few sprinkles to be wiped up.

If we don't leave it down and they use it they are suddenly sitting in cold, 'yucky' water.

Which result is more surprising and worse?
There's no laws, there's no pay involved here, it has nothing to do with equal rights!