Getting home tonight, for the first time since Friday, I felt a significant comfort. It's always good to make your way home eventually, despite how much fun you had for the past few days. I kicked off my shoes, and noticed them like gaping maws begging for my feet to be put back in. I ignored their cries and went to the bathroom.
This is where I first made this thought. As I finished, I leaned forward and put the toilet seat down before I flushed. Why did I do this?
I was raised by women. I was taught the utmost respect for females and I cater to their every whim whenever possible. I have always done the best I can, and usually I understand why certain needs have to be met. However, I do not understand why I have to put the toilet seat down.
We, as men, have no problem lifting it up. Even if we get up in the middle of the night, we lift the toilet seat up. It's reflex to us. So why is it that even if you get up in the middle of the night, you fall in the toilet if we don't put the seat down for you?
It's like protecting a retard from himself. Depending on his level of degradation, we grant them special equipment for safety.
We childproof our cabinet doors so they don't get in there and drink poisons, and we do this to protect them from themselves.
A mature, female, adult, should not need to be protected from such things. You never hear about men asking women to leave the seat UP in case they wake up in the middle of the night and piss all over it. No, we lift the seat, and it takes the same amount of energy to lift or lower it.
So tell me, why do we have to protect you from falling in the toilet? What is it about your heads that you cannot check the toilet, or reach to lower it by instinct, that is so difficult?
Why have we, as men, been tasked to save you from falling into a toilet bowl?
