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mens_studiesI found this article online a few months back (don't know where it's from or who wrote it), and am curious as to what anyone here thinks of such weirdness:
SYDNEY, Australia— Young women in Australia and Sweden have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from hygene concerns – avoiding the spalsh factor-but as reported in The Spectator magazine, “more
crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women”.
Frieda Nightanvil of Women Arise Australia is gathering pledges from young men to abstain from urinal use and recommends they pour fast drying cement in to urinals around Sydney during the Olympics.
"We are hoping this will draw the attention of the world’s media to this ongoing fascist symbol of subjugation. This will be the last generation of males who will employ such tactics of oppression as the urinal. But it will be a struggle with the Cave Man mentality that even today is the mindset of too many Australian males”.
Stockholm University is about to ban urinals on campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. “What can I do?” said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.
SYDNEY, Australia— Young women in Australia and Sweden have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from hygene concerns – avoiding the spalsh factor-but as reported in The Spectator magazine, “more
crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women”.
Frieda Nightanvil of Women Arise Australia is gathering pledges from young men to abstain from urinal use and recommends they pour fast drying cement in to urinals around Sydney during the Olympics.
"We are hoping this will draw the attention of the world’s media to this ongoing fascist symbol of subjugation. This will be the last generation of males who will employ such tactics of oppression as the urinal. But it will be a struggle with the Cave Man mentality that even today is the mindset of too many Australian males”.
Stockholm University is about to ban urinals on campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. “What can I do?” said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.
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Date: 2005-01-02 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-02 04:26 am (UTC)If you like that one, there's a dying child out there who needs a kidney transplant -- collect enough pull-tabs from cans, and he'll get one!
Feel free to check me on it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Yola,+a+25-year+old+Swedish+trainee+psychiatrist&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=30&sa=N&filter=0
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Date: 2005-01-02 04:43 am (UTC)I tried to do a background check on it when i originally found it, as I do with most of what I find, but couldn't find the original source (apparently on usnews.com). I found this copy on some guy's personal site, and otherwise it's just posted to various forums and blogs. It's been floating around too long to find the origin, methinks.
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:02 am (UTC)I think ...
Date: 2005-01-02 05:14 am (UTC)The fact that its conceivably true says something all by itself doesn't it?
Re: I think ...
Date: 2005-01-02 05:17 am (UTC)Have you heard about what the queers are doing to the soil???
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Date: 2005-01-02 03:28 pm (UTC)Why are these women watching men pee? Just close & lock the damn door and put the seat back down when you're done; it's common courtesy to do both anyway. And if you have a psycho girlfriend who insists you sit, dump her.
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Date: 2005-01-02 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-02 10:18 pm (UTC)I found the older story after checking out some comments on fark.com on a story about some German novelty item that bitches when someone lifts the toilet seat:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/18/wpinkl18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/18/ixworld.html
The "WC Ghost" is sold by the German company Patentwert (both do in fact exist):
http://www.patentwert.de/patentwert_erfolge.php
So I assumed even if the story was bogus, someone or some group out there must be pushing this idea, against a steady tide of resistance, but still--what a waste of brainpower.
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