11 thoughts on “Report: Standing Up to Pee Gives Boys an Unfair Advantage in Physics”

  1. Note the feminist obsession with genitalia rather than focusing on differences between male and female brains. As I typed this I realised that standing up to pee could indeed make it easier for boys and men to think than for women, who need to sit on that part of their anatomy in which they keep their heads, thus restricting the flow of blood to the brain and so making rational thought difficult if not impossible. She-Wees on the NHS for girls should result in an increase in those taking STEM/M subjects, shouldn’t it?

    Problem solved.

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  4. It’s hard to know what to say do do justice to such idiocy. Just when one thinks we’ve reached peak idiocy, something else comes along, and one’s vocabulary (mine, at any rate) is no longer equal to the task of keeping up with it.

    Maybe peeing standing up gives boys a better understanding of gravity (or so we may be told, with all due “gravitas”)!! Now, that would be an unfair advantage to end all unfair advantages!! LOL!!

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  5. I always thought the domestic toilet bowl was sexist. It favours women, since men are obliged to lift the lid to avoid accidents (and invite the usual opprobrium when we don’t put it down again). In Japan. it is commonplace for ordinary homes to have a urinal as well as a bowl. Why do we not opt for this egalitarian solution?

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    • ‘ … since men are obliged to lift the lid to avoid accidents (and invite the usual opprobrium when we don’t put it down again) … ‘

      That’s not been my experience, which is that women complain when men leave the seat up and when we leave the lid down. I always leave the seat and lid down and have noticed that women almost never shut the lid after them. The conclusion I have drawn is that they object to the tiny exertion required to arrange things as they wish. They expect to be able to plonk themselves down and walk away without closing up because they are that lazy.

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  6. Just when the world of feminism seems to have reached peak idiocy, something else, such as this, comes along to surpass the previous ‘peak’. Something that beggars belief (though maybe it shouldn’t, given the insanity of the times in which we live) is that university academics are paid to conduct this kind of “research”.

    Maybe these academics will tell us, with all due academic gravitas, that peeing standing up gives boys an unfair advantage over girls when it comes to understanding gravity!!

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  7. This looks pretty silly but I do think the simple logic of our different bodies is important. Having your genitals on the outside of your body with pretty clear signalling of your readiness for mating must make a difference in some way for instance. Just as the reverse having internal more secret organs would logically make women regard sex as more intimate. General size, muscle mass , arm length resistance to pain and so on . Without invoking brain differences the many physical differences would logically influence differences in behaviour.

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  8. This may, of course, also assist boys with understanding Newtonian parabolic trajectories perhaps.

    For example, Victorian urinals sometimes had a picture of a bee at the best and most desirable aiming point since the Latin for that insect was….
    “apis”, and that was where one should ideally take it.

    Physics, classical linguistics and humour all rolled into one.

    So that’s why men are also usually regarded, on balance, as better comedians too.

    What’s not to like…

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