women often seem not to act according to any common sense or courtesy or decency but from a programmed set of commands that have already been deemed acceptable by some borg female overmind.

So, to feel part of the female overmind, she has to riff ONLY from the list of things women are allowed to riff on. Totally UNCREATIVE.

Thus, women's mindless obsessions with toilet seats being up or down, for instance. The 'rule', as it were, becomes a standard marker for their power and ability to manipulate a man.

I do not see men acting this way universally towards women, you never hear how 75% of men demand women put the toilet seat up, which leads me to believe women lack the creative instinct as compared to men.

Why would men EVER say this, men unlike women apparently, know that they have to make sure the seat is down BEFORE they sit down. In fact if men had a preference it would be for the seat to ALWAYS be left up so no one pisses on it (no men anyway). It's kind of funny that women feel all righteous and superior that men don't memorize 20 different laundry settings but most women apparently can't manage to remember a two position toilet seat.

My house for one, my girlfriend pisses all over the seat all the time. I've been tempted more that once to "practice" pissing through the hole rather than lifting the seat up just to make a point (she doesn't need this device though because she's the only female who uses this bathroom, actually she DOES need it but she has no reason to think so).

for her to dislike him this much after she was willing to bring him home. Actually if he was that bad why was he still there.

Boohoo, brightstar. Didn't you read all the other letters giving reasons how this could be useful?

Also, if you practise enough, you can pee standing up without a plastic thing. However, unless you're wearing a skirt, it's easier to just sit down.

women seem obsessed, like the princess and the pea, with those things they cannot have, even if those things do not materially affect women in any significant way and are only imagined shortcomings.

HOW PETTY.

I mean, do women cup their hands when they pee, collect the pee, and then fling it at trees or rocks? Of course not, if they are sane, yet I could imagine this would be no different, and indeed superior to only being able to pee in a thin stream like a man can.

Really, men have never thought two seconds about their ability to pee standing up being a positive thing. It is all in your heads if you think we men get off somehow on doing this. It never occurred to me that this is somehow a cool male talent until I heard over and over from women how cool it would be to do this.

I can only surmise that women's clits somehow have nerve endings that excite the tips of the clits at the area women imagine they would have a pee hole. This tingling being a marker for something women imagine men must somehow feel when they are peeing through the correspondsing organ. That is the only logical explanation I can come up with that would drive women's obsession with being able to pee standing up.

Geez. Ever try to piss off the side of a boat as a woman?

And the commercial was funny. After last night, shouldn't the guy, you know, KNOW?

Especially if you add oil to your car while standing up.

Wait....what?

...how hairy that dude's back is.

I thought the ad was funny and I agree that the guy who would be homophobic and not remember a one-night-stand makes himself laughable.

To the commenter who claimed that women would react differently if an ad made the girl the butt of a joke: I think a negative response is appropriate for any "humor" that reinforces demeaning stereotypes against a group or individual.

The product is OK, but I prefer the disposable p product.

This product is not really a new idea. Women who spend time outdoors (rock climbing, backcountry skiing, etc.) have been using something informally referred to as a "Lady J" for some time now. You can buy it at REI, where it's called Sani Femme Freshette (got to be the worst name ever!). It's great for when you're stuck in a climbing harness or it's too cold skiing to drop your pants. Highly recommended. And--it doubles as a beer bong!!!! JK.

I've seen the insides of plenty of public ladies' rooms over the last several decades, and have RARELY come into contact with a seat that I felt would give me "cooties" or worse if I used it in the usual "ladylike" way. At most I'd have to towel off the seat with bathroom tissue before use. Just where ARE these places that are apparently so grungy that a woman would go to this "extreme" measure to avoid skin-to-seat contact???

Started my day with a big laugh. Thanks for sharing.

I don't know about the product, but I got a good laugh.

And the man is the butt of the joke, which is almost universally the case in advertisements. When the woman is the butt of the joke, well then we see a different reaction around here. . .

I'm not so over the top about the product (for the record, I have several pmates, in daypack, purse, car, go-bag) because I prefer the pmate. And no, it's not gross -- please recall urine is sterile as long as you're healthy. Position, use, flush, rinse, zip in bag and you're done. In the wilds, I use a babywipe on it. No big deal, no stink, no worries and no wet shoes.

But the commercial... oh, that's lovely. How better to get rid of a fun once, now leave? And make him question his memory, sense of security... Sure, it plays on homophobia, but homophobia is not seen as admirable -- it's seen as ridiculous. Presuming the one night stand, doesn't that make the male actor even more ridiculous? Is he so incompetent he didn't know who he slept with? So useless he didn't bother with foreplay? Such a drunken sot he can't be relied upon to remember? Adding in his homophobia just makes him all the more a waste of molecules.

Nicely satirical.