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Why is it accepted that men will pee on the seat/floor?

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Kibble29 · 27/10/2024 14:56

Why is this a thing, like “oh, he’s a man, that’s what they do”?

Heard it lots of times from friends and colleagues and have seen similar posts on here. Why is it treated like an unavoidable event that a grown man (or anyone over the young child age)
finds it ok to leave body fluids on or around the toilet?

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TheKhakiBiscuit · 27/10/2024 15:17

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VenusClapTrap · 27/10/2024 15:19

Dutch men sit down too. No pee around the loos in my house.

As for emasculated, what’s sexy about a man who pisses everywhere and expects someone else to clean it up? No thanks.

morinaga · 27/10/2024 15:19

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Can real men not tell the difference between a urinal which is designed to stand and pee into, and a sit down toilet, designed to…sit on?

UnderOverUp · 27/10/2024 15:19

Yep. Went to a train station toilets today. Turn right for women’s - didn’t smell of anything in particular. From the left turn to the mens was an overpowering stink of urine. Gross.

Attelina · 27/10/2024 15:20

My father, brother, husband, son, stepson and other male family members do not behave so disgustingly.

TheKhakiBiscuit · 27/10/2024 15:22

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AEP123 · 27/10/2024 15:22

I thought that was just grotty public toilet issues? DH has never left wee on the toilet or the floor.

why arent they weeing into the toilet? how messy is their pee stream to be going outside of the huge toilet hole and onto the floor?

TinkerTiger · 27/10/2024 15:22

Tulip8 · 27/10/2024 15:09

I dunno, I've been in some pretty disgusting women's toilets in my time too.

There's always one!

menohnopausal · 27/10/2024 15:27

We all sit to pee in this household, including the hunky, athletic men. I'm genuinely laughing at the thought of a man basing his masculine identity on standing up to pee 😆. Sounds a bit Andrew Tate, doesn't it?

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/10/2024 15:30

menohnopausal · 27/10/2024 15:27

We all sit to pee in this household, including the hunky, athletic men. I'm genuinely laughing at the thought of a man basing his masculine identity on standing up to pee 😆. Sounds a bit Andrew Tate, doesn't it?

It does rather.

Which is interesting because as someone said recently, AT is a 14 yo boy's version of manly. Not a grown man's.

Fully formed men can clean, think of others, and be manly at the same time. It's the peeing version of a kilt. If you can be manly sitting down to pee or cleaning up, you're a MAN. If you can't, you're just pretending.

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mitogoshigg · 27/10/2024 15:33

I've lived with two men, never had issues with either on this front. Blame their parents I suppose for not teaching them correctly

BibbityBobbityToo · 27/10/2024 15:35

I don't accept it, DS (old enough to know better) soon stopped it when I made him clean it up. He had come up with some game only the male brain would understand to try and pee by standing outside the bathroom door and trying to hit the toilet 2 meters away.... Some weird 'bathroom floor is made of lava' game!

MrsTerryPratchett · 27/10/2024 15:41

Seriously though, little boys are still taught to stand and pee.

If you are teaching any, the correct method is stand and pee and CLEAN. Either lift the seat or clean under it. I don't actually care if you do handstands over the loo to pee, as long as you clean the area. If you can't clean because your knob would fall off; sit.

GildedRage · 27/10/2024 15:44

well it all depends on a few things; the angle of the dangle being one.
if when a man sits on the toilet the position of the penis is not fully tilted down pee can come through where the seat and porcelain bowl meet (remember the toilet seat does not sit flush on the bowl it's slightly elevated on 1/2 inch shock absorbers).
next stream, if the stream of urine starts out slow and then picks up, the person/member needs to be shifted quickly into another position likewise it can start out quick and dripple at the end and some of the dribbles can end up on the outside of the bowl.
now i'm not making excuses and should there be an issue yes it needs to be cleaned up by that person. so paper towels in the bathroom can be helpful at making men more responsible.
some fellows also wait till the last minute before they go, and have limited control once the toilet is in sight.
to a certain degree prostate enlargement (which is somewhat normal at a certain age) makes not dribbling/stream and urgency a problem.

Meadowfinch · 27/10/2024 15:46

Not in my house either.

If DS or any of his friends leaves the loo in a mess, they get called back and told to clean it. If they don't like it they can leave.

Men do not have the right to be dirty, lazy, smelly or disgusting.

It's probably why I'm single 😁 I don't mind in the slightest.

Wentie · 27/10/2024 15:50

Both my dad and my father in law do this, and I find it absolutely repellant. Not just a little bit, but I’d say it seems only about half gets in the loo each time. I mean puddles of it on the floor. Neither of them have ever cleaned a toilet in their life.

Meadowfinch · 27/10/2024 15:52

UnderOverUp · 27/10/2024 15:19

Yep. Went to a train station toilets today. Turn right for women’s - didn’t smell of anything in particular. From the left turn to the mens was an overpowering stink of urine. Gross.

This is why I refuse to go anywhere there are unisex loos. The stench is unbearable.

(Univ of Oxford Exam Rooms loos were so vile I wanted to vomit. And these are supposed to be educated men ! Just gross.😩)

Jonismorf · 27/10/2024 15:52

A question for those mums who toilet-trained their sons. Did you teach them to pull their foreskins back when peeing? This, I believe, is a major cause of erratic spraying. I worked in a care environment and was quite shocked to learn that many males aren't aware of this until a little later in their lives.

Gettingbysomehow · 27/10/2024 15:54

How is it so hard not to do this? I don't shit on the floor?

Meadowfinch · 27/10/2024 15:55

Wentie · 27/10/2024 15:50

Both my dad and my father in law do this, and I find it absolutely repellant. Not just a little bit, but I’d say it seems only about half gets in the loo each time. I mean puddles of it on the floor. Neither of them have ever cleaned a toilet in their life.

Next time they do so in your house, I'd hand them a pair of marigolds, a disinfectant spray and some paper towels and tell (not ask) them to clean up after themselves.

I bet it's the last time they make a mess, from sheer embarrassment.

Notjustabrunette · 27/10/2024 15:56

Not in my house.

Iloveglitterballs · 27/10/2024 15:59

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Real men stand to pee 🤣🤣🤣

No, lazy men who can't be arsed to lower their trousers and pants stand to pee (at a toilet).

DecafDodger · 27/10/2024 16:01

I don't care if you stand on your head when you pee or do one-handed push-ups, to be extra manly. If you make a mess, you clean it up.

GrumpyPanda · 27/10/2024 16:02

Tulip8 · 27/10/2024 15:09

I dunno, I've been in some pretty disgusting women's toilets in my time too.

Because women are underserved capacity-wise. Real "potty parity" requires a 1:2 or 1:3 ratio in our favour and only Americans legislate for that, so there's many times the pressure on our facilities. Yet the same cleaning schedule.