Agreed. Plus statistically speaking the toilet in general has a greater probability of needing to be in seat down position. “Averages” for healthy people of no particular life style work out to 6-10 pees a day, poo is a little harder but is generally 3 plus. Using the most favorable number to “seat uppers,” that’s 10 tikes it needs to be up, and 16 it needs to be down. So it needs to be down more than it needs to be up by a significant margin. Further- men can just as easily per sitting, so in theory a toilet with an eternally down seat will service 100% of able bodied users 100% of the time versus a toilet with no seat or an eternally up seat which services less than half of users 70% of the time- for a total service of 100% for seat down, and 34% service for seat up. So.... seat up is the clear loser by the numbers and the logical choice is down.
I put the lid down, then when she forgets to put the lid down I roll my eyes and sharply exhale and passive aggressively remind her of our shared obligation to put the lid down. Ya’ll ain’t ready for true equality.
Putting asides pets or other reasons one might want to have the lid down- the principal of mid down for equality is the same principal that giving everyone a pap smear, or no one a Pap smear is equal. If you are ready for true equality you could also just sit when you pee- then the seat is down 100% of the time, except cleaning etc. you can still put the lid down- and you’d still both be using the same effort as the other to use the toilet- so all other factors, lid down is not inherently equal, especially for those who wouldn’t put the lid down if they weren’t doing so as a concession to equality. The ability to easily pee standing up is an advantage- so to put burden on the person who already has the disadvantage isnt an equalizer, it’s simply imposing the same disadvantage on everyone, while one party keeps an advantage, making the sum total 1 to 0 or 0 to -1 as far as advantage goes- and those scores are not equal. So I’m not arguing against your system or what works in your home
Just saying that the assertion that it is equality that the y’all among us are not ready for, is not really applicable as the equality it is founded on can be proven false with demonstaratable evidence and quantifiable data.
We are room mates. I only use the tv to watch cartoons. You use the tv to watch cartoons, but you also for Xbox. When we watch cartoons, we both turn the volume way down. When you play Xbox, you turn it way up, you don’t even have to- you can play on lower volume, just sometimes you don’t like to. Is it smarter to have the tv on full blast by default, or agree to turn it down by default? What about when I’m sleepy, or a little drunk or sick, or there’s an emergency and I go to turn on the news, or it’s the middle of the night and I go to watch tv, and.... the volume is all the way up and I get an unpleasant and possibly dangerous result- probably wake you up too? But women (effectively) NEED seat down to use the bathroom practically, you WANT to pee standing (unless disabled.) Asking someone to put your wants above their needs, especially regularly is NOT a sign they value you, it is a sign you value yourself more than them- regardless of how noble you try to make it seem to yourself.
men, you aren't the disgusting creatures that many try to depict you as. You can put the whole seat down before flushing to prevent the ejection of fecal material into the air.
I mean just close the toilet lid before flushing, otherwise all the bacteria and waste gets into the air with the flush.... Plus everyone just has to lift the lid regardless of who is doing it or what they’re doing.
1 we have animals.
2 we still do it out of habbit from when my daughter was small enough to get stuck in it.