Return to article: How to Get the Men in Your Household to Put the Toilet Seat Down
on 10/4/2008 WHY THIS IS A NON-ISSUE WOMEN NEED TO GET OVER USING THE "STEPS ARTICLE" AS EXAMPLE: 1. Making "vague" comments about cleanliness insults the intelligence of your partner and shows how much a silly issue it is to begin with. 2. Urine spots/stains are nasty i admit...Any real man would clean up after himself as a sign of self respect if anything. 3. If you want the lid closed, then simply close it. It takes 1.5 secs to close, and if you are going to the bathroom you are going to raise it anyways...JUST FLUSH GUYS ;) 4. Again, any self respecting man will clean up after himself..ones who don't are nasty and no...most men DO clean up after themselves. 5. Going on a sex/shopping/whatever strike is selfish, and VERY trivial considering it takes so little to open one's eye and notice you have to just flex some arm muscles to lower the seat. Seems like a stab at girl power to me.
on 9/17/2008 i never understand this complaint...You should be sooo happy if a man actually lifts it up when peeing, so you could have a clean seat...some men(clearly depends on culture a bit too)donot lift the seat and pee it dirty sometimes.So now thats rude.But this is only my opinion.
on 8/28/2008 It is not only a sanitary issue but a safety issue to put the seat down. I taught my boys to put the seat down from the time that they were old enough to use the toilet and they have always put it down. As far as safety goes-men, have you ever left the seat up, gone in the bathroom (needing to have a BM), sat down and fallen in? You could seriously get hurt! Think of it as caring for your loved ones and preventing accidents. What do you think would happen if your little old Grandmother were to fall in-they could break a hip. So please gentleman put the seat down as because you care about your family. PS-my grown boys still put the seat down!
on 7/13/2008 I believe that a person should be smart enough to look at what they are going to sit on before doing so. But, My mother demanded that I put the seat up before urination. Next she told me that putting the seat down when I finished was an act of courtesy to women just as holding the door or tipping your hat. Then Came The Women’s Liberation Movement! That’s where “they said” they wanted “equal treatment” (A Two Way Street?). “NO DOUBLE STANARDS FOR ME”. It’s much easier for me not to touch the seat at all, I’ll do that if they want! I can hit the water with most of it.
on 5/7/2008 Caution: Withholding sex for leaving the toilet seat up may cause said man to leave you. Warning: If you refer to "training" your man he may not appreciate you "training" him like he's a dog. Fact: This method of behaviour is not efficient (see www.msu.edu/~choijay/etiquette.pdf mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/856/1/MPRA_paper_856.pdf http://www.scq.ubc.ca/a-game-theoretic-approach-to-the-toilet-seat-problem/ ) Tip: Perhaps some female scientists/mathematicians should do a writeup asserting why the seat should be put down (i.e. even if the seat is made to be put down why should we?) This idea is not logical. If we always used things as "they are made to be" we would have never made advances such as the development of computers. In short, the argument to put the seat down is not a strong one.
on 3/19/2008 What the hell is with this issue? I'm a man and I always put the toilet seat down (lid and all) because it seems more hygenic to me, plain and simple. Why can't women lower it when they go and men raise it when they go? It's an equal effort for BOTH parties that way. Get over yourselves and realise it's not worth fighting over. Now, if one of you tears the toilet seat off, THEN you can fight.
on 12/1/2007 Lowering the toilet seat when we finish was an act of courtesy before Women’s Liberation! “NO DOUBLE STANARDS FOR ME”.
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on 6/23/2007 For the men....Just ignore the mad cow.
on 5/2/2007 Now im not sure if moving in with my boyfriend is the right idea.
on 3/8/2007 I used the following method: Everyone needs a little extra boost of money in their lives and it is an actual feng shui detail. This was told to me by my boss and she said it has shown results in money and I told my live-in boyfriend who never puts the seat down about. They say that if you keep your toilet seat closed and the shower curtain pulled closed it will help ease financial stress. It is to help the feeling that money is being "flushed out". I told him about this and I noticed that immediately he stopped leaving the toilet seat up. Try it, it might work.
on 12/17/2006 I am a man, and I always put the seat back down, then flush; it's cleaner for your bathroom air, anyway. When you flush, if the lid is up, all of the particles in your waste go flying into the air! I actually don't understand why men have a hard time putting down the lid after going number one; what is so hard about it? Sheesh. I'd have to question what else they have a hard time doing if they can't simply put down a toilet seat and/or lid.
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