Society's ever changing gender roles

[Guest Astro]

If someone wanted to do a documentary on the changing gender roles in our society, one would only need to look at my family’s household. The older generation (my parents) have the old school stereotypical roles in full effect. The man is the primary money earner, fixes things around the house, and holds a certain amount of power over his spouse’s extracurricular actions. The woman is in charge of cleaning up after the man, washing clothes, doing dishes, making sure the meals are made, taking care of the children, and being overall subservient to the man’s desires. Only one generation later (my brothers and I) have the new school gender roles. The men and women both have jobs, they both care for the children, both partake in cooking and the women are free to gallivant from place to place without having to get permission from their men to do so.

 

Overall society has changed other sexual stereotypes that had previously been considered the norm. Couples now actively and freely live together and are sexually active before marriage, in the past this type of behavior would have been scandalous had it become known. However I’m not of the belief that our society as a whole was as sterile and perfect as some people would like to believe. I feel the 1960’s and 1970’s were less of a “sexual revolution” and more of a “sexual revelation”. The younger generations of that time got tired of pretending that sexually promiscuous behavior was a rarely occurring sin. That generation merely let the cat out of the bag. Everyone’s family trees were littered with childbirth’s that occurred less than 9 months after marriage. It was time to change the stereotypes, the sins that occurred were the norms of society, everyone was guilty, and it was time to move on to bigger issues.

 

Its funny to listen to my mother preach on about how disgusting it is that all this premarital sex and sleeping around on your spouse goes on in this country, when she herself was pregnant before marriage, and she lost her virginity to a man who did not become her husband. Her rants on JFK, Bill Clinton and Elvis’ sins are classic.

 

One has to wonder which direction gender roles will go to next in our society. Women seem to be gaining more and more power, and men are sharing more responsibility. However the powers that be in the business and political worlds will probably continue to subtlety make sure that their sectors remain “boys clubs” and men will continue to hold the highest offices and continue to make most major business decisions. Men’s strongholds in those two avenues have been there for centuries and I don’t feel it’ll change anytime soon.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

What part of this am I supposed to care about?...

[Guest Astro]

Its more of a comment at your leisure type of thing.

 

I'll go find some masterbating judge stories for you.

[Guest Astro]

Here this should tide you over:

 

Potty training for joy of the Grand Pee

 

By AMY CHAVEZ

 

One thing most foreigners are surprised to see when they come to Japan is men urinating in public. Taxi drivers, salarymen and just plain drunks can be seen standing against a wall, a hedge or over a grid in public streets any time of day or night, peeing. I call it the Grand Pee.

On the island where I live, men are constantly peeing off the piers as well as off fishing boats in the port. When your house is on the port like mine is, this gives a new meaning to the idea of a picture window. Every Thanksgiving, my dinner guests are entertained by these men outside my living room window peeing, oblivious to the foreign crowd amassed just 10 meters away.

 

Indeed, it seems like Japan is obsessed with peeing. Even Western-style toilets come with instructions on the lids. What were they thinking -- people might jump in? Perhaps the instructions are there because Japanese have always had an aversion -- and rightly so -- to putting their naked BUTT down on the same place someone else already has sat on. Therefore, I think we should get rid of the ugly word "BUTT" altogether and just call it the "upper hamstrings." The Japanese have only warmed to the Western style toilet recently, with the advent of heated toilet seats.

 

Apparently, Japanese people start preparing for the Grand Pee at a young age. One day on the bullet train, I noticed the woman across the aisle reading to her son. But she was reading no ordinary children's book -- The cover of the book, called "Shikkokko," had a boy holding his penis and peeing large raindrops onto the ground. I'm presuming it was a potty training book. Now you know why it's called potty training -- it's done on the train. Not only that, but the book even had the boy peeing from a train onto the ground outside, peeing into a drain and various other public places. Makes you wonder what the book for girls is like.

 

Perhaps you've heard of a new product for women that allow them to use a paper or plastic extension to direct the stream of pee away from their bodies. Women seemed to feel liberated by these new gadgets: "Now women can pee just like men!" they said. Hmm, I've never had the desire to pee like a man. Until recently, that is.

 

I received some samples of such a product from a company called "My Sweet Pee." I decided to try it while on a boat, since there are times at sea when it is too rough to stay atop a boat toilet anyway. Some boats even have a "pee bottle," a special plastic bottle with a large mouth and a handle made specifically for this purpose. You'd think hospitals would have caught on to the pee bottle by now rather than making you carry around those humiliating little flimsy paper cups with your urine sample inside.

 

So, there I was standing on the edge of the boat, the gadget in place, aiming into the sea when EUREKA! I finally understood why men pee in public: because they CAN! I had achieved the Grand Pee!

 

And it was a good thing I had it pretty well perfected by the time I found myself, a couple of weeks later, trying to squat over a Japanese-style toilet with a sprained ankle. With "My Sweet Pee," I could just stand on one leg, stork-style, and aim. Not only that, but I no longer had to crawl on my hands and knees down the stairs to get to the toilet from my bedroom -- I could just pee out the second-floor window.

 

I'm not going to tell you whether I actually did this or not, but I assure you, no one was looking.

 

Unless, that is, I was oblivious to a Japanese crowd amassed just 10 meters away.

[Guest This Thread Is Ghey]

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[EL BRUJ0 0]

Pee-Brained

 

Summer brings with it a lot more travel, and travel brings with it…a lot more pee anxiety.

 

For the ladies, of course. Guys generally don't devote a lot of psychic energy to worrying about taking a leak. But women? It's a world of, as the inventors of My Sweet Pee put it, "lining the toilet with paper, crouching, or having to sit down on filthy seats in a public restroom!"

 

The urgency denoted by that exclamation point led to creativity from Vivian Lipman and Joyce Nimetz, retired twin sisters from Houston who are marketing the My Sweet Pee shield.

 

Despite its name, the shield does nothing to sweeten your urine; instead the flat piece of rubber allows a woman to pee standing up. "It molds into a funnel shape and acts as a splash guard and trough," Lipman says. (But can you write your name in the snow with it? Apparently not.)

 

My Sweet Pee comes in both reusable and disposable models. A "citrus cleanser" allegedly allays any fears that a woman (who refuses to pee normally in a public restroom) might have about sticking a urine-soaked piece of rubber in her purse.

 

It's $14.95 for a reusable and $11.95 for ten disposables. And if you're not interested at the moment, "It's a wonderful little stocking stuffer," Lipman says.

 

We're sure it is. Our suggestion: Put it in a Tiffany box before you wrap it. Imagine the look of surprise on the little lady's face…

 

 

[Guest T®ITEC]

Tremendous. I'll take eighty.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

These people do realize that an ass is more germ-free than a face is, right?

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

One thing most foreigners are surprised to see when they come to Japan is men urinating in public. Taxi drivers, salarymen and just plain drunks can be seen standing against a wall, a hedge or over a grid in public streets any time of day or night, peeing. I call it the Grand Pee...

 

Big deal. When I used to go to school in Pittsburgh I saw people pee against public buildings in broad daylight. Ain't no thang.

 

I'll never do my business in a porta-potty either -- those things are disgusting.

 

I'd say more but I have to, of all things, go to the bathroom...

[Guest Hero to all Children]

Your average keyboard has a lot more germs than your average public restroom toilet seat. And if you're so concerned you can just wipe over it with a paper towel. I mean .. it's not like you disinfect your hands before touching a chair in public. Do you have any idea just how frequently people don't wash their hands after using the toilet and then touch that chair?

 

 

In Germany people piss in public but generally it's drunk men who do that and it's also a minor offense, but no one really cares. It's still not the city of piss (Munich in this case) as that tiel is reserved for France.

 

 

 

And finally: You girls are obsessed with pissing. I was working as an interpreter for the US Army during exercises in Germany and sitting between and infront and behind a bunch of female 'terps in the mess hall, eating. They were talking and talking and most of the time it was connected to urination in some way. Funny things that happened on the toilet, having to pee badly and then being called to duty while they're squatting down in the field, peeing peacefully in the field and then being hit by a sniper from just three meters away from where they took a leak less than five minutes ago, et fucking cetera.

 

It's maddening. They have to be some kind of reverse camels that produce more urine than they consume fluids. I don't think any of the men who had to pee more than three times during the whole exercise (three weeks) while on duty, I know I didn't.

[Jingus 0]

I don't think any of the men who had to pee more than three times during the whole exercise (three weeks) while on duty, I know I didn't.

Wait one minute... you're saying that NONE of the men urinated more than once PER WEEK?

 

Either you guys were out in the blazing sun 24/7 and sweated out every single drop of moisture in your bodies, or you're all just freaks of nature.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Urination is never a concern for me. I have a bladder the size of San Marino or something.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Your average keyboard has a lot more germs than your average public restroom toilet seat.

If you're talking to me, I'm not referring to public restrooms. I'm talking about those porta-potties.

 

And yes, I know there are probably a million things that have more germs than those things, but those million+ other places don't stink as bad...

[Guest Hero to all Children]

No, we just managed to hold it until after the current exercise or to piss in our free time.

 

Porta potties where the only thing we had in field camp. Trust me .. you'll take a shit anywhere if you really have to. The worst days were Mondays as they emptied and refreshed them on Tuesdays. Sometimes you could legitimately fear that shitting just another turd would cause the shit pyramid to touch your ass.

 

Also: I was talking about the ad-slogan for that woman-piss-funnel thingy.