Men, Women and Toilet Seats
I was at a friend’s house chatting with two couples. One of the guys said he didn’t understand why men had to put the toilet seat down when they were done instead of women having to put it back up. I didn’t think of it at the time, and since I can’t go back to be witty and timely, I’ll just blog about it.
My answer is this: You husbands are to be to your wives as Christ is to the church and Jesus would so totally put the seat down. He would never leave it up for his church to fall in. Easy.
May 3rd, 2005 at 11:35 pm
THANK YOU!….now you need to teach him to put the toilet seat down before sending him back…or I might UPS him back to you.
May 4th, 2005 at 12:41 am
I never thought it was possible to take WWJD too far… until now…
May 4th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Quote of the day
“You husbands are to be to your wives as Christ is to the church and Jesus would so totally put…
May 5th, 2005 at 2:38 am
Easy. I don’t think so. We have to “lift” up the lid AND the seat. All that mass AGAINST gravity. All you would have to do is exert a small amount of energy by tipping the seat and -voila- you’re ready for business.
May 5th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
Here’s the thing I’ve never gotten about women complaining about us not putting the seat down.
When we, ahem, use the facilities, as men we are expected to put the seat up, so as to protect the cleanliness of the seat.
So, my point is, if men can be asked to put the seat UP when we take care of business, why is it such an outrage that women be forced to put it DOWN later?
Maybe this is why I’m single, but I’ve never understood all the outrage from the fairer sex on this topic.
May 5th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
I’d only be outraged if I fell in.
Ron, perhaps you need a review of scripture included in the catechism:
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
This begs the question: Does this mean that if you don’t put the seat down, your prayers will be hindered?
Hmmmmmmmmm…
May 5th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
I think a case such as this one can only be resolved in the wisest court there is, Solomon’s. Would Solomon include “tipping the seat” a trait worthy of a wife of noble character (Proverbs 31)? I so “totally” think so.
If the wife of noble character would tip the seat and to teach her daughters to do the same, then “Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:” (31: 28)
May 5th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
yes but the woman of Proverbs 31 did EVERYTHING around the house, and outside the house…. I think for the sake of the man’s name being kept ‘noble’ he could at least do this one thing and put the seat back down. No?
May 6th, 2005 at 1:35 am
Are you advocating that there are some things a woman can’t do?
May 6th, 2005 at 2:00 am
“Does this mean that if you don’t put the seat down, your prayers will be hindered?”
Yes, and that I’m going to hell.
May 7th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
Ron,
We knew that already.
I still think the best theological comment on this thread was made in the post itself.
May 9th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
We have a simple solution. We always put the lid down. Roughly equal inconvenience for all, the bathroom looks better, and it poses less danger to any animals or toddlers that might be straying through the house.
May 9th, 2005 at 7:21 pm
If men were required to put the seat down, their intrinsic laziness may cause them to just leave the seat down. Since the “aim” of many men is highly suspect, a policy requiring the seat to put back down would endanger both men and women. Empirical proof of this theory can be found in any male bathroom stall. Women should just be happy that men are putting the seat up at all.
May 10th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
God calls us beyond our intrinsic laziness. Remember that part about loving your wife as Christ loved the church? It’s a good thing Jesus wasn’t too lazy to go to the cross, huh?
May 16th, 2005 at 11:37 am
Ron, I know where you live. Thanks to somebody *cough* while I was on crutches from my multiple knee surgeries somebody left the seat up and me being disabled, fell in. Nobody knows me really, but if you did you might be a little bit scared.
K thanks
May 16th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
Christine - it wasn’t me. Talk to your brother, Dan the Man! I’ve been preconditioned already to put the seat down! Erica would kick my ass.