Comments on: FOR THE LOVE OF EVE

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:07:08 +0000

If you’re not going to sit on it, you don’t need to put the seat down. Lift it up if you’re not using it.

By: Raa

Raa — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:58:32 +0000

If you’re going to squat, lift the seat please.

My University has a handy invention in our toilets though. Little dispensers of sanitising liquid in all the stalls and a diagram on the wall showing how you can squirt some on to a piece of toilet paper and wipe the seat down before you sit. Thus eliminating the need for hovering by sanitising the seat.

By: liam

liam — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:58:36 +0000

what about some trans women and other lady-identified folks for whom it is much easier to stand to pee? we all miss the toilet sometimes. the much less transphobic request is to clean the seat off, not a demand to always sit.

By: monsterwoman

monsterwoman — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:25:48 +0000

thank you for sharing this! too many times have i been in a rush and sat on a wet seat. for all you hoverers saying how un-sterile urine is, why don’t you take your own advice and save us practical ladies from wet “un-sterile” asses! i don’t care how awesome you think your aim is, unless you’re actually sitting on the seat after you’ve done your business, you don’t know. i swear that stuff blends in sometimes!

By: diane

diane — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:27:38 +0000

I will NOT sit on the toilet. The urine in the seat is not sterile anymore. It’s already rotting. And imagine this: there is menstrual blood from unknown women, feces and some other undetermined stains. NO. I will not sit on the toilet.
The solution: I have learned to aim properly. If I ever miss, I have in my purse a very well known germ-killer and tissues. I use them so the next woman will use a clean toilet.
People, learn to clean after yourselves so one day we can all sit on the toilet.

By: safety sister

safety sister — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:30:42 +0000

1. Urine is only sterile in the bladder, once it is in contact with the urethra, vagina etc… it is not.

2. Putting toilet paper down on the seat will do absolutely nothing. TP is absorbent – whatever it touches will soak right through, leaving you right where you started.

3. None the less … sit your ass down! Less mess makes everyone’s day.

4. Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands – and don’t touch the taps, or door knob on your way out or you’ve wasted your time.

By: kd

kd — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:28:14 +0000

Okay, I have to say, it pisses me off pretty damn bad to see piss all over the seat. The reason for this is that generally when someone has pissed all over the seat and not bothered to clean it up, they have not only willfully created a nasty mess for me to clean up myself, but they have likely done so with the snobbish belief that *they* are too CLEAN for the toilet seat. Fuckin assholes, man!

On a less angry note, I really don’t think the issue should be how people choose to pee. If you are more comfortable squatting, then that’s fine. Stand on it for all I care. Just don’t leave a mess. And that goes for sitters too, please.

It is most upsetting to walk into a stall when ya gotta go, only to discover that you can’t sit down and take care of business yet, because you need to wipe up someone else’s PEE first. Hmm, wipe up someone’s pee, or experience the pleasant sensation of cold piss on your bare legs. Uhhhhhhhhhh…Man, just thinking about it puts me in a bad mood.

So um, to sum up: Please, just DO NOT LEAVE A MESS. No pee on the toilet seat. Thank you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:05:01 +0000

Yes, thank goodness. SIT THE HELL DOWN and stop flushing with your footwear. Goddamn if every woman would stop their bathroom shenanigans it would make life easier for us all. I hate the people who mess up the bathroom and then whine about it being disgusting. If you make a mess, clean it up. If it disgusts you that much then plaster the seat with toilet paper, but stop hovering. Most women are just not that skilled and end up making a mess; which they don’t clean and leave for the next person to deal with.

By: double

double — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:29:44 +0000

Well, I’m almost exactly an entire year late to this party, but HOLY SHIT YES.

“Sit on the toilet” is my new mantra for the week.

By: Snow

Snow — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:03:21 +0000

I agree. Sit on the toilet.

But, if you absolutely must hover, do so without peeing on the seat. Rip off a little square of TP, delicately lift the seat out of the way, then squat over the bowl. With another square of TP, put the seat back in place.

Wash your hands.