30/10/2020
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Dear Dudes: Put The Toilet Seat Back Down
If you're a dude and you're already lifting the toilet seat to p*e, congratulations, you're halfway there! Everyone is very happy that you're realistic enough to admit that your aim is imperfect, and that lifting the seat now is easier than wiping up a bunch of p*e later. But unfortunately, one other lingering bathroom issue remains: are you putting the seat back downafterwards?
If you care even a little bit about the ladies that you share your house with, you should be willing to spend one second going out of your way toflick the toilet seat up and down in order to help them avoid the sad, soggy fate of accidentally falling in the toilet. Seems simple enough. But for some reason (cough, cough: casual misogyny), a lot of men have gone to a lot of trouble in order to justify leaving the toilet seat up.
In fact, leaving the toilet seat up is OK. You know what would have taken way less time that researching and creating a graph about how it's OK to leave the toilet seat up? Putting the damned toilet seat DOWN. And that economist is far from the only dude to put their extensive education to work developing complex theories about why falling on your ass into toilet water after they leave the seat up is simply not their problem.
So, if the dude in your home feels like his energy is best used arguing that leaving the toilet seat up is somehow ethically defensible, please feel free to print this article out and tape it to the inside of the toilet lid/his face.
1. It's More Sanitary
If you need a reason besides common courtesy (which we'll get to in a minute) to put the toilet seat back down, try this: we should actually all be putting both the toilet seat AND the toilet lid down, because flushing with the toilet lid up can cause germs from the toilet to spread into the air.
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