I prefer our home toilets to be left with the seats down. Sometimes I want to sit on the toilet, too. And if it's really urgent it saves me a second or two in checking and lowering the seat. If I have to pee and it's getting down to the wire, I can always manually hold it in for the time it takes to raise the seat. I can't manually hold the other in, and in the consequences of failure are so much greater in that case that it's not worth the risk. On a similar note, I prefer public seats be left up. Some men just won't raise the seat, which invariably gets pissed on. If the seat were left raised, there'd be no pee on it. Just lower, and voila! Clean seat. Again, if in a poo-related rush, lowering the seat is far quicker than wiping it off.

“f@#$ing razor” how ladylike! Sure these are good tips but the tone screams “Be*tch”. If she hates him that much or he's that much of a dog, they should break up or she deserves him. Very insulting to equate men with a patio. However true that may be. Decorative soap be damned!

@Ric: Man, no lie. At least, it's why I'm GLAD I am…lol. Many of the most well-respected relationship researchers (real ones who publish in peer-reviewed journals, not self-help gurus angling for a spot on Oprah's stage—see John Gottman at www.gottman.com, for instance) have been saying for years that same-sex couples tend to get along better on average than even the best opposite-sex couples in their studies. A big part of the reason, the studies show, is that same sex couples tend to be less hostile and bitter when they argue, more truthful with each other while incurring fewer negative consequences as a result of their honesty, and more positive and hopeful about their conflicts and disagreements in general. This list of ridiculous, sexist, condescending, shrill whining and bitching makes me feel sorry for anyone who has to put up with this kind of crap. Oh, and about having to pee while erect: The writer of this bitchfest suggests that men ought to “walk it off or do something about it”. I wonder what she'd say if I expressed the same sentiment about her menstrual cycle—another normal, natural bodily occurrence that can't be helped. I, for one, would like to have avoided the open trash cans of used sanitary napkins I've encountered at the homes of some of the women I've known.

As I woman, I have to say that I think the majority of this is ridiculous. 1)I really don't care if the lid is lifted or not. As long as there's no pee on the seat or the floor when you leave the bathroom. My ex was a disgusting person and apparently could not control himself and I would find myself always having to wipe off the toilet seat or worse, stepping in pee in the dark. 2) I also don't care if you close the lid when you're done. I'm a big girl and know not to put my ass down anywhere until I look where I'm sitting. 3) I don't mind shaking hands with genitals. Heh, heh. 4) And come on, is this “Lady of the House” 7 years old? Who gives a shit about pubes. I mean…if they were my dad's or my brother's I would be grossed out but if it's my boyfriend I really don't give a shit. Besides, he uses the bar and I use liquid. Who gives? 5) 1 thing I do agree with is the shower curtain one. 6) Don't give a shit if my boyfriend uses my “fertilizers” (seriously, who talks like that?) 7 & 8) and don't care about the toilet brush. 9) I use my boyfriend's razor sometimes, he's never used mine so I got no complaints on that. Ha. 10) Decorative soap is pointless and tacky. 11) I've never complained about an erection, in any circumstances and I don't care if you pee in the shower either. Guess I'm easy to please but apparently some uptight bitches are not.

Love it!

this is exactly why i'm gay!

If a woman I was dating had the kind of attitude displayed here, I'd drop her faster than a fistful of HIV-infected needles. Remember ladies: you're not getting any more desirable as you get older. Try a little kindness if you want to hang on to a dude. Otherwise: NEXT!

Equal rights, yes?
If you want them, you have to accept them in all facets of life.
Lets look at toilet seats:
One view of “equal” is that everyone deal with whatever they find. Ok?
But is this equal?
Actually it is skewed in the woman's favor.
Both men and women use the toilet in ways that require the seat down; i.e. pooping. Then, with peeing, there is a split. That means that more often than not, the seat will be in the woman's favor.
But you don't hear men complaining.
In fact, they would be joyous if the woman would accept this skewed (in their favor) or “equality”.
Another point:
If men have to lift a seat to do their business, then it follows that a woman should, to be equal, lower the lid if necessary when they encounter it.
But NO, their whole argument hinges on their desire to sit without looking, thus ending up in the toilet. Do men pee without looking? Oops the lid was down…no, they probably don't. One more instance of entitlement instead of equality: men must look before they pee, but women don't have to and can expect it how they want it.
Ladies, make up your mind.
Either way is fine: equal, or not equal but with certain privileges (flip side being men get theirs too).
Either way. Pick one; can't have both.

Who touches their balls with the bar of soap? (Rhetorical question.)

The “don't wash your balls with hand soap” rule is ridiculous. If you don't mind my pubes when we have sex, why do you mind them in the soap?

What I just read is penis envy in text form.

I'm waiting for the companion piece about how “women can't drive.” If we're going to be sexist, we might as well dish it both ways.

Women are idiots. In our house we close the toilet lid completely not just the seat. Leave the lid up and a small child could fall in or a dog can drink from it. Leave the lid up when you flush and over 12,000 feces particles fly into the air. Always close the seat and lid when you are done peeing.

Some people might want to shake hands with a man's genitals. Just sayin'…

I was trained as a little kid to clean up any errant twinkles. I can't count how many times I've gone to use a toilet and the woman or girlfriend before has blasted the underside with urine. So when I go to lift the seat up I get a nice surprise on my fingers. Most women never realize this because they leave the seat down and never look. So ladies, are you sure you're as “next to godliness” as you believe? (I believe you are and I like when you smell all fresh as flowers…)

if you dont look before you sit down on a toilet you deserve to fall into “ass-water.”

“My conditioners and shampoos are my fertilizers. Do not use them. You are like the patio next to the flower. You need a hose and a brush.” If your shampoos and conditioners are fertilizer, I don't plan to use them. Thankfully, I have my own lemongrass goat's milk soap and organic tea tree shampoo to use. And stay away from my alpine spruce essential oil. This whole list is inane.

Obviously this woman has some “man” issues

there are a few points on here that are valid, like the liner curtain inside the shower to keep the water contained and washing your hands, I had a boss who NEVER washed his hands after he went to the bathroom and it we all kept HUGE bottles of sanitizer at our desks, but I keep waiting for the day that he gets a staph infection in his eye b/c he doesn't wash his hands.
As for the rest, if you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat… this rule should apply to EVERYONE not just the men…

How much do you want to bet that whoever wrote this list learned what “being in a relationship is like” from watching reruns of According to Jim?