thats what feminists are saying
Young Swedish women now demand that their men use the lavatory in a strictly sedentary posture - partly, I am told, for reasons of hygiene, but, more crucially, because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity and, by extension, degrading women. To micturate from the standing position is now viewed - among the more progressive Swedes - as the height of vulgarity and possibly suggestive of violence. "All my friends demand that their husbands or boyfriends sit down,says Jessica, from Uppsala. “I think it shows respect for the women who clean,” adds the 31-year-old biologist. “My brother, for example, would not dream of standing up. Among the young leftish intelligentsia there is also a view that to stand is a nasty macho gesture.” Her English husband has refused to be cowed, she admits, because “it infringes his manly rights.” Reward for his heroic stand? Full-time cleaning duties.
Yola,a 25-year-old trainee psychiatrist, is yet more strident. She dumped a boyfriend,in part,for refusing to comply. His replacement is better trained. “What can I do?” implores Ingvar, the new boyfriend,and one can see his dilemma: Yola is painfully pretty. As she says,"They either want me and they do what I say,or they can go.
“The way they go to the toilet is just another example of why men are so bad. They watch football,they have not good manners. Women have had enough.”
Already,a feminist group at Stockholm University is campaigning to scrap the urinals on the grounds that their construction - allowing male-only use - is intrinsically sexist. According to Yola, they are encountering none of the virile opposition they would meet elsewhere. At least one Swedish primary school has already ditched the wall-fixed porcelain to acculturate young male Swedes to the new order. Others are expected to follow. In most cases, the reactionary will huff about the absurdity of “these progressive ideas” but his more rational side will often accept that PC is a disguised form of politeness. But this men-to-pee-like- women project is beyond parody. What is theie rationale?