<p>While I understand that most girls seem to enjoy forcing guys to put the toilet down (a totally unfair practice, but let’s leave that for now), is it generally acceptable for a girl to tell me to physically go put down the toilet seat for her, right before she goes to the bathroom, because she’s tired of doing it herself?</p>
<p>I have never lived with an American girl in the same house for an extended period of time before, so I don’t know if this is common in the US… but this just seems bizarre to me.</p>
<p>Would you like to live a long happy life with a woman? Put down the seat. My darling son thinks that he has such wonderful aim that he just leaves it down. I am not sure whether I would rather have him leave it up or get it wet.</p>
<p>If it’s not that hard, why would a girl literally force me to put the toilet seat down right before she uses it? It doesn’t make any sense. If it requires no effort, who cares?</p>
<p>Have you ever had your bare ass fall into a toilet and then claw wildly in the air trying to pull yourself out? That’s probably why she’s a little peeved.</p>
<p>Granted, while girls should look before they leap–it doesn’t always happen–especially if you’re used to living in an environment where you don’t need to check regularly.</p>
<p>It’s more out of being courteous. Just as you would probably expect the last person to use the last of the toilet paper to replace it so that you don’t have an interesting scenario on your hand. You could change it yourself…but it’s general manners for the person before to do so. Get it? Same deal.</p>
<p>In short, the extra millisecond to be considerate and put the seat down for her won’t kill you. If it does, then you probably were going to die anyway–but at least put the toilet seat down before you do.</p>
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<li>because the toilet seat is gross and women usually hate touching it</li>
<li>because YOU put it up so it’s only polite to put it back down - the same way you’re expected to clean up after yourself or not leave your dirty gym socks lying around</li>
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<p>Also, don’t you wish you had a urinal in your house? I always wondered why men can’t buy urinals to put in their bathrooms. If my genitals dangled I’d certainly get one.</p>
<p>Sometimes females don’t look and it hurts when they sit down on the rim. Someone with a smaller bottom might land in the water. It isn’t very pleasant. Put down the seat.</p>
<p>Cross-posted with the two above. Plattsburgh loser put it better than I did and I am rofl.</p>
<p>anyways just put the toilet seat down with your shoes. men usually wear closed toe shoes so it’s usually easier for the men to put it down than for the women to put it down (cuz women wear open toed shoes a lot more)</p>
I never touch the toilet seat. Call me crazy, but I hate when you sit and it’s warm from the person before you, or if it’s a public toilet who knows how often it’s cleaned - so I always take a little strip of toilet paper and layer it, then sit.
Because it makes you an inconsiderate ass, and by refusing to put the seat down you’re going out of your way to bother the your roommate, and believe me, you do NOT want to live with an angry roommate. Often girls let the “little things” that bother them slide and say it’s “fine”, but eventually something will make her very upset and it’ll all come out in the end - not only the toilet seat, but also the other 20 annoying things you do which you’re not even aware of but she probably is. (I’m being kind of facetious here, but still)</p>
<p>Basically what Plattsburgh and MDMom said. For christ’s sake, put the toilet seat down Ray.</p>
<p>Considering my question was about whether or not it’s acceptable for girls to force me to physically put down the seat before they do their business (as in, knock on my door, tell me to put it down, I do it, they go on the toilet), and not whether nor it’s fair that guy should always put it down when they’re done, none of the responses really answered my question at all.</p>
<p>But if you really believe putting down the toilet seat is correct, then there must be a logical reason for it.</p>
<p>^your question was answered. several posters here said it’s inconsiderate and rude. aside from the obvious, it’s bothering your roommate. you could at least do so out of respect for her.</p>
<p>why not chew with your mouth open?
why not talk loudly on a cell phone?
why not let doors slam in people’s faces?</p>
<p>only somebody who’s on the socially clueless train would have trouble comprehending this.</p>
<p>hell, i’m a guy, i live with three women (2 sisters and my mother) and i know damn well not to ever leave the toilet seat down or i’m getting chewed out. as i would probably deserve to be too.</p>
<p>answer: it’s inconsiderate to your roommate. if it’s bothering her and it’s not like she’s asking you to make a huge adjustment or anything unreasonable, just put the toilet seat down.</p>
<p>What if I’m germaphobic as well, and hate touching the seat?</p>
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<p>But it doesn’t make any sense. If by forcing them to put down the seat every time makes me an ass, how is them forcing me to lift the seat every time justified?</p>
<p>I have no problem putting the toilet down. In fact, I do it when I remember (you guys know that 21 years of habit isn’t easily broken). What I am rather miffed about is that someone actually forced me to go put it down when I forgot. Why is it so important it becomes a rule? It requires no effort!</p>
<p>Either put it down or make sure your aim is very good.</p>
<p>“If you sprinkle while you tinkle, be a sweetie not a meanie.
Just be neat and wipe your seat!”</p>
<p>I do agree that women should just look before they sit down. And if it’s up they should just put the seat down, they’re not gonna get AIDS and herpes and the clap from touching a toilet seat. I mean honestly how the hell do you not notice that?</p>
<p>There are two reasons why it’s more logical for you to be required to put the seat up than for her to be required to put the seat down. </p>
<p>The first is simply that the seat is down by default. Whenever you buy or close a toilet, the seat is down. You have to make the effort to put the seat up, so you should put it back down. She shouldn’t have to put it down and then back up, since the default state is for the seat to be down.</p>
<p>The second reason is utilitarian: it makes everyone better off if the seat is left down after every use. You can go number one whether the seat is down or up, though obviously the latter is somewhat more convenient. She cannot go number one if the seat is up, only if it’s down. So it’s logical that you should leave the seat down. This way, when one of you forgets to move the seat, there’s not a problem.</p>
When my parents were house shopping several years ago, we looked at several houses that actually had urinals in them. Also, some of our dorms at school have urinals in the dorm bathrooms (I’m talking suite-style dorms, where 4-6 peole share a bathroom- not hall style).</p>
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The girl is nuts for knocking on your door to get you to do that. However, why can’t you just do it immediately after you’ve gone?
To answer your question: it should be your duty to lower it, and not a girls duty to raise it because guys use toilets with the seat down too. Last time I checked, everyone has to sit when they do #2.</p>
Haven’t you ever heard that kitchen sinks are even dirtier than PUBLIC restrooms?</p>
<p>Two random points I feel I should make:</p>
<p>1) Girls, if you rail on your guys too much for leaving the seat up, I think you run the risk of them not lifting the seat up at all when they use the toilet, which I assume is not a desirable alternative for most of you.</p>
<p>2) Everyone (guys included) should always put the seat down, but not out of politeness for girls. No, you should put the seat down because that’s the only way to put the cover down, which is your only line of defense during flushing against fecal mist landing on you and your toothbruth.</p>
(I’m being kind of facetious here, but still)</p>