Dismuke Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) The new rage among the politically correct in Europe. Can we here in Nancy Pelosi's America be far behind? I'll bet that Teresa Heinz already makes her pathetic hubby John Kerry do this. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnLeo...ught_to_justice - - - - - 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. Edited January 12, 2007 by Dismuke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 The only men that I've known that sit while urinating are the ones with Prince Alberts, esp. ones that are gauged. They definately "sprinkle when they tinkle." Fortunately, my piercing down there does not interfere at all with urination. I wonder if Ingvar ever gets the urge to tell her that not only did he stand this time, but he also missed the bowel completely... I guess parents then wouldn't even have to teach their sons to aim at Cheerios... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene -- avoiding the splash factor -- What a crock. Tell me that sitting on -- actually touching -- a public toilet is somehow more sanitary than not. No. Pfft, next thing, I suppose they'll tell me that CO2 is causing the globe to warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) What a crock. Tell me that sitting on -- actually touching -- a public toilet is somehow more sanitary than not. Oh, I assumed when I read that that it referred to it being more hygienic for women because now men (apparently) splash on the toilet seat. Edited January 12, 2007 by Maarten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOdden Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 That's the European approach. The American approach is to teach women how to pee standing. I'm working on how to do the other thing standing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimpy Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is "a nasty macho gesture," suggestive of male violence. Wow. Just wow... since when is peeing suggesting of violence now? And it's not like the woman is there...witness to his "violent" behavior. Feminists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterrose Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 *agrees with DavidOdden* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejohngaltline Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 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." ...Wow. Personally, I've never felt degraded by man's anatomical inclination to stand while urinating. Nor by a man triumphing in his masculinity. Where's the head-shake emoticon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) People probably have a problem with a man standing upright in any circumstances. How dare such a lowly and debased creature stand up straight as if he was actually worth something! Men should crawl, instead, you know. Wow. Just wow... since when is peeing suggesting of violence now? And it's not like the woman is there...witness to his "violent" behavior. Feminists! I'd say that peeing becomes a suggestion of violence when you haven't been to the bathroom in like two days. Edited January 12, 2007 by Maarten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Royce Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 What is worse, in my opinion, is the first story in the article Dismuke refers to: the 6 year old boy who is charged with sexual harassment for jumping out of his bathtub to shout to the bus driver to wait. What sick educators there are here in America! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Oh, I assumed when I read that that it referred to it being more hygienic for women because now men (apparently) splash on the toilet seat. Why would women be in the mens' restrooms? I'm working on how to do the other thing standing. It's... tricky. I gave up on it once they started putting in those seat-shaped tissue-thingies. It's still usually better to hold off until you get home than either option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Why would women be in the mens' restrooms? Well, in the article they quote this woman who said that she dumps her boyfriends if they pee while standing up, and generally people don't have seperate bathrooms at home, do they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) People probably have a problem with a man standing upright in any circumstances. How dare such a lowly and debased creature stand up straight as if he was actually worth something! Men should crawl, instead, you know. Right, cause that will make it much easier to get raped by muslims who don't sit down once they're invaded like france is. Then they'll have the full 'woman experience', since 11 out of every 10 women is a rape victim according to feminists. OUt of all of the efforts at emasculation I have heard, this is clearly the worst. 17%? remind me never to date a swede. Bad odds. I'd prefer to stay intact. Edited January 12, 2007 by aequalsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maarten Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 17%? remind me never to date a swede. Bad odds. I'd prefer to stay intact. The 17% figure was from Australia, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 The 17% figure was from Australia, by the way. Not dating Aussies either then. Man...keep this up and I'll have to rule out the entire western world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Squat? Squat my left foot! No, for true equality, we all ought to wear diapers, or catheters and bags, and banish public toilets altogether! /unhinged mode off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KendallJ Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Well, in the article they quote this woman who said that she dumps her boyfriends if they pee while standing up, and generally people don't have seperate bathrooms at home, do they? This strikes me as natural selection taking it's proper course. If one defines most male actions as being tinged with some sort of agression to females, I would think one is not gong to get the pick of the species then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrassDragon Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 What is worse, in my opinion, is the first story in the article Dismuke refers to: the 6 year old boy who is charged with sexual harassment for jumping out of his bathtub to shout to the bus driver to wait. What sick educators there are here in America! No, what is worse is a section on the next "page" of the article: Because it begins with the masculine-sounding syllable "his," the word "history" has been banned at Stockport College, in Manchester, England. Also banned are the phrases "ladies and gentlemen" (offensive connotations of class), and "slaving over a hot stove (which "minimizes the horror and oppression of the slave trade"). No word, though, about that offensive first syllable of "Manchester." A government-run employment bureau in Walsall, England, banned the words "hard-working," "reliable" and "smart" on grounds that they discriminate against the disabled. The phrase "commitment and a desire to succeed are vital" was banned as well, apparently for insensitivity toward lazy people. Striving to be reliable and smart, the Labor government rescinded the ban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 No, what is worse is a section on the next "page" of the article: Anyone else get the feeling we are discussing articles out of The Onion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOdden Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Well, in case anybody is curious, this story appears here in July 2003, which cites as a source this from 2000, which cites US News & World Report 8/21/2000. Anybody got a copy to check? I'm just curious whether this really happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guru Kid Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 I personally follow this rule: If you sprinkle while you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejohngaltline Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 A government-run employment bureau in Walsall, England, banned the words "hard-working," "reliable" and "smart" on grounds that they discriminate against the disabled. Oh man, that is appalling. I guess it's not enough to hate the good for being the good... They have to limit the good's vocabulary, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dismuke Posted January 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 That's the European approach. The American approach is to teach women how to pee standing. I'm working on how to do the other thing standing. Rumor has it that both Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton stand while they pee. And when Nancy Pelosi pees, her eyebrows are still raised up in a look of perpetual surprise. (Her botched plastic surgery makes me think of the comprachicos) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsalt Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 What is worse, in my opinion, is the first story in the article Dismuke refers to: the 6 year old boy who is charged with sexual harassment for jumping out of his bathtub to shout to the bus driver to wait. What sick educators there are here in America!You see, the educators in this country, having eschewed Euro-centrism, now march in lock-step with European Progressive Transnationalism. The key tenets of this latest mutation of Marxism are politically correct oppression of speech and multiculturalism. Having eschewed any of that old Western logic, they are unable to see the irony. Alternate headlines for this story: The Metaphysical and the Woman-made Girls gone wild The Effects of Not Taming the Shrew Lysistrata takes over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeatherFall Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 I never expected to find such delightful toilet humor on this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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