So Reddit’s Men’s Rightsers are in a tizzy over a bullshitty piece in the Daily Telegraph warning of an evil worldwide plot to force men to pee sitting down.
The evidence for the existence of such a plot is a bit on the skimpy side — the Telegraph writer leads off with a reference to a 2012 proposal from a County Council member in Sormland, Sweden that doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere legislatively but that’s been a favorite evil-feminist story on conservative websites ever since.
The very notion that some evil feminist might force them to sit while they spray has Men’s Rights Redditors in an unusually combative mood. Heck, it’s got some of the regulars thinking that it might well be time to start doing some good-old fashioned murdering. No, really.
Yep. In case you’ve been wondering, suggesting “a campaign to assassinate feminist figures” because some local council member in Sweden had a dumb idea will in fact win you upvotes on the Men’s Rights subreddit.
Strikerfm1, by contrast, seems almost moderate with his “tie feminists down and urinate on them” proposal.
The World’s Greatest 21st Century Human Rights Movement, folks!
Thanks to the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to this horrible crap.
EDIT: The “let’s murder feminists” comment has been taken down by the subreddit mods, though the user hasn’t been banned for it; the “I want to tie a feminist down and pee on her” comment remains up, and still boasts upvotes.
@Hyena Girl – YAY! Thanks for letting me know! 🙂
Husband came up with this suggestion too on seeing this post…. Like, maybe they can stand up, ass toward the toilet, do just a minimum of squatting and then push really hard to make the pieces of poop sort of fly out of their asses and into the toilet bowl?
Strikerfm1: “I’m not an MRA, but I am virulent homophobic misogynist!”
emilygoddess: Ooo yes, shoulda said to always use sterile water, and to clean the pot between uses.
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm316375.htm
Apropos of nothing, I love my Neti pot; I get sinus allergies and its my best friend during pollen season. 🙂
Me too. I grew up in an moderately isolated immigrant community (and I’m old enough for this to be pre-Internet) and I really thought ‘American’, or in my case ‘white Canadian’, culture was something they made up for tv. It wasn’t till I moved away that I found out just how wrong I was. (Not that my childhood’s community was in anyway perfect, it was heaped full of prejudices, just mostly different ones from mainstream).
Even after all these years living in the mainstream, I still often stumble over culture shock.
*that should have been ‘in any way’. Damn.
moldybrehd – another YAY! There’s two of us!!! Yeah, it’s like culture shock all the time here – I’ll say something that I think is completely normal, and everyone will stop and stare at me and I’ll realize I goofed. Yet again.
What I find funny about the “Where are you really from?” question is that sometimes the target has a longer family history in America than the questioner. Of course, length of time nor country of origin does anything to change legitimacy.
I currently live in Texas where a number of people can rightly claim they didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them.
I had an ex that kept trying to tell me I was forbidden from peeing standing up. I just started being more thorough in cleaning any splashback and she didn’t even notice.
Also, one time in high school I was pooping, and had to pee. So I peed while sitting down (didn’t see the point of stopping to stand up). Three kids wanted to beat me up when I cam out because what I did made me a “British cigarette” Lazy maybe, but I don’t see what homosexuality has to do with it.
This is my first post in this forum. I first peed sitting down when I was a teenager. Although I occasionally pee standing up, sitting is my preferred way to pee. I have to push my penis down to do it though.
Because predicating one’s gender and orientation on petty little rules is the mark of the mature.
Well, I have final proof (if any were needed) that Louis really is a mangina.
Last night over t’other side we were sitting cuddled up on the couch and eating …
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bonbons.
WOW! I’ll have to let all my gay guy friends know they better stop peeing standing up or else they are totally impostors in the world of gay and I’m going to expose the truth!
Say, how are bi men or asexual men s’posed to pee? This could be mighty confusing.
Bi men stand up and urinate for a little while and then finish while sitting down.
Or they bring a chair into the bathroom and sit on that while peeing into the toilet.
Presumably asexual men don’t pee at all. Convenient!
That’s a great image, katz! 😀
Pansexual men would urinate a unique way every time they go to the bathroom.
Does this mean that as a woman who’s bi I have to stand up and then sit down again? Does it depend on who I’m in a relationship with at the time? Because this is all sounding like far too much work, and I’m lazy.
One would think that it’s better (and less messy) to keep your urolagnia and your politics in separate spheres.
Someone in poly relationships across the sexes could be in real trouble.
If nothing else I guess you’d end up with really strong thigh and butt muscles from all the standing then sitting then standing again mid-piss.
Do incels just hold it in all the time then? On second thought that would explain a lot.
Better’n Kegel exercises. 😀
Myoo – gives the term “all piss and wind” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?