Hello everyone sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have a topic today that is very interesting to me and I hope it is food for thought for you. I first want to say that this is in no way pointed at anyone directly. This is a thought that I have and if you know me I over rationalize thoughts continuely. I have panic disorder and with that comes the curse or gift of having compulsive and obsessive thoughts. So excuse me while over analyze and over think and go completely off about this subject.
Having said all of that this is the subject: Toilet Seat Duty: Who does it belong to?
Now back several decades ago, I am not good with my dates in history so no exact times will be given, women burned their bras and fought for the freedom to be considered as equals to men. Now this is a subject that I completely agree with. One of the main things that women fought for equality in was being able to visit court rooms and be jury members of large trials. Now the reason they were not allowed to do this at that time was because husbands considered their wives to be delicate beautiful flowers and did not want to expose them to the gruesome testimonies of murders and rapes. However, in fighting for this right women were actually saying, "I do not want you to look at me as being delicate and beautiful, I want you to see me as an equal." Ladies let me just stop and say right here, "BIG MISTAKE." I believe in equality but what women were asking for was for men to stop viewing them as the beautiful, exquisite, pure, lady creatures that God had made and ask us to view them in the same way we view other men. Now as exagerrated as this may seem ladies you have to agree that to some degree this is very true. Even on the job I have to view a woman as a co-worker just as I would view another man. Now the only problem I have with this is that I don't want to I want to view you in the way that God intended me to view you. As the beauty of God's hands, the supporter and help mate that God created you to be, the person I come home to and find solace in at the end of a hard day's work, the person God made for me to protect and to provide for, the longing of my heart and the desiring of my loins, NOT my co-worker. Thus the need for all the sexual harrassment laws that we have. LOL.
Now on to the toilet seat problem that I have. Although, in my own opinion, I would have loved to kept the ladies at home and kept them being something that we upheld as being pure, dainty, delicate, honorable, dependant, admirable, proper, loveable, etc., but I can't continue to look at them like this because they won, they gained thier equality. Which brings me to the toilet seat because it all hinges on this. If you want to be equal then we have to discuss this problem that we have. As a homosapian male standing in front of the toilet seat, it is my duty to raise the seat so that I do not accidentally urinate on it. In my opinion that is the end of my job, but I hear women saying you didn't put the lid down. Ok, well put it down yourself. What I mean is this, I have done half of the work it is up to you, as an equal, to do the other half. Now I know you are sitting there saying to yourself, "the nerve of that insensitve prick." It would be a nice thing for me to be sensitive and raise it and lower it, but ladies you didn't fight for sensitivity, you already had that and didn't like it, you fought for equality. Here is a problem I have had in the past that led me to this thought. I go in to the bathroom and there is pee already on the seat, I raise it, pee, and then lower it. A woman goes in behind me and sits in the pee that was already there and accusses me of not raising the seat and peeing on it. So if I leave the seat raised then you know that I have done what I said I would do, which is my half of the work. Another question I have is what is the big deal anyway. Do you not see that the lid is raised before you sit down and fall in. I know that you sit on the toilet but do you walk all the way to it backwards with your butt hanging out, because in my mind you walk toward the toilet seat forward so you can easily look at it and put it down before you set on it. Another thing if I have to lower the seat for you to sit on then you should have to raise it when you are done so that I don't pee on it.
I know that this is irrationale and crazy to you but this is where it all begins. If I don't share equality in this with you then I feel like I have the right not to share it with you in other things. You are misleading me. Do not think I'm a sexist or a bigot because I am not. I have had women bosses which I regarded and still do with the upmost respect, I have a woman pastor in whom I think is the best pastor in the world, and I give all women that I know, especially those out there doing it on there own, a great amount of respect and reverence. I'm just saying stop crying about how bad you got it and how horrible your life is, because nobody is going to do anything for you out there you have to make it on your own. It is the product of the decision that your fore-mothers made a long time ago.
In the words of Tupac, "I ain't mad ya."
how true!! although im a woman, i agree with what you said! women shouldnt be too lazy to wipe the seat or put it down just because we all have to do things that inconvenience us n we get over it! but while alot of women agree with liberality, alot dont, i kinda like the idea of being a delicate, dainty and pure! and i believe that God made women to be that!
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