Feminism out of control

As my friends can attest, I am the best feminist out there. Ok, maybe not. But at least I'm not as bad as some schlubs. Still, this worries me. What is with feminists and their offense at men standing to pee? I mean, who wants to be a sitzpinkler, as the Germans call 'em.

I was duely stupified reading John Leo four years ago when he described a feminist group's cause to eradicate urinals from Stockholm University. Here's what Leo wrote:

Young women in Sweden, Germany and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene -- avoiding the splash factor -- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the English magazine The Spectator, "more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women." One argument is that if women can't do it, then men shouldn't either. Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is "a nasty macho gesture," suggestive of male violence.

A feminist group at Stockholm University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. In Australia, an Internet survey shows that 17 percent of those polled think men ought to sit, while 70 percent believe they should be allowed to stand. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year-old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. "What else can I do?," said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.

Want to see WASPMs protesting like it's 1972? Take their urinals away. Can you imagine the non-violent protests that would come from this? How many UIPs would be handed out?