"Convention often emerges after hundreds of years of custom and practice. Take a seat momentarily, girls, whilst I make a male observation. Given that a man needs the lavatory seat 'up' to urinate and a woman requires it leaving 'down', doesn't a man have as much right as any woman to express his preference of toilet code etiquette that should prevail in the matrimonial abode. Why should he always be rebuffed by his wife for having, yet again, forgotten to 'leave down the lavatory seat?' Why should he always be the one that risks infection by forever lifting and lowering the lavatory seat when his wife is cooking cup cakes in the kitchen with her nice clean apron around her?" William Forde: November 28th, 2012.
