><<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000821/21john.htm
>
>US News
>
>John Leo on More PC Folderol (8/21/00)
>
>An excerpt
>
>
>Now sit, Ingvar, sit.
>
>
> Young women in Sweden, Germany, and Australia have a new cause: They want
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>men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns
about
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>hygiene- avoiding the splash factor- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the
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>English Spectator, "more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is
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>deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading
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>women." One argument is that if women can't do it, then men shouldn't
either.
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>Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is "a nasty macho
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>gesture," suggestive of male violence.
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>A feminist group at Stockholm
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>University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish
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>elementary school has already removed them. In Australia, an Internet
survey
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>shows that 17 percent of those polled think men ought to sit, while 70
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>percent believe they should be allowed to stand. Some Swedish women are
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>pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year-old
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>Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on
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>standing. "What else can I do?" said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.>>
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