The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently held its 118th annual meeting and exhibition in Montreal. .APSA, headquartered in Washington DC, bills itself as "the leading professional organization for the study of political science, serving more than 11,000 members in more than 100 countries. APSA brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions and occupational endeavors within and outside academe to deepen our understanding of politics, democracy and citizenship throughout the world.”.The theme of the meeting was “Rethink, Restructure and Reconnect: Towards A Post-Pandemic Political Science.”.Could be the “Rethink” part have been rethinking the use of urinals?.In an article in The New American headlined: ‘Not Just Pronouns: Now Trans Activists Want to Control Your Bathroom Habits’, Selwyn Duke writes “It’s not enough for transgender activists to control how you speak with their pronoun prescriptions (e.g., ze, zir, zem). Now ze want to control your bathroom habits, too. Seriously.”.Duke says it came to his attention when men attending the APSA conference were asked to refrain from using urinals out of respect for others..A sign posted at the conference read the bathroom was for all-genders, adding “out of respect for all attendees, we ask that the urinals not be used.”.The issue, says Duke, was apparently women transitioning to men may be triggered, offended or disturbed because they can’t perform the call of nature standing up..Not that this is a new idea. Feminists in Sweden, Germany and Australia did this decades ago, also taking the aggressive stance position. .As the late Professor Walter Williams, an American economist, commentator and academic, said in 2020 the activists “want men to sit down while urinating. The main gripe: men standing up to urinate is deemed by these women as triumphing in their masculinity, a nasty macho gesture and by extension degrading to women.”.The story was picked up by Andrea Widburg in The American Thinker..“While the men line up in front of their urinals, these fake men are forced to acknowledge biological reality and head for the stalls,” writes Widburg. “I know this because I read an article at IQfy, an online lifestyle magazine that caters to the left, entitled ‘Encourage men to pee sitting down to be more inclusive of Trans Men.’ ”.“The article contains several gems, all intended to get natural-born men to pretend to be fake men with women’s excretory functions, with some claims of physical benefits,” writes Wedburg..“You tend to put more pressure on your bladder when sitting down to pee and this can be beneficial in urinating more.” .“Others are just desperate: 'Not taking an aggressive penis stance with penis held in hand shows that you are secure in your masculinity.'” .“Improved body image and a sense of calm.” .“Peeing standing is a sign of immaturity.” .“Sitting allows you to pet your dog while peeing.”.The whole idea of urinals is to speed up visits to washrooms at events attended by large crowds. .“If that conference truly had an all-gender bathroom, all that would happen is the lines would be twice as long as they need to be,” says Widburg, adding people living in the real world must take a stand (if they are men) and “reject this toddler-like obsession with toilet training.”.Not surprisingly, the Twitterverse was alive with comments..One Twitterite wrote it’s “like an act of a fealty to a militant minority of attendees.”.Someone named Catherine said: “I think this is the only time I wish I was a guy so I could go there and use a urinal in defiance.”.Another witty response: “Architectural Digest, 2023: ‘The Empowering Rise of the Purely Decorative Urinal.’”.And some satire: “If only we could devise a system whereby urinals are only placed in restrooms used by people with similar urinary anatomy who widely accept the use of urinals. But that’s obviously not practical….”
The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently held its 118th annual meeting and exhibition in Montreal. .APSA, headquartered in Washington DC, bills itself as "the leading professional organization for the study of political science, serving more than 11,000 members in more than 100 countries. APSA brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions and occupational endeavors within and outside academe to deepen our understanding of politics, democracy and citizenship throughout the world.”.The theme of the meeting was “Rethink, Restructure and Reconnect: Towards A Post-Pandemic Political Science.”.Could be the “Rethink” part have been rethinking the use of urinals?.In an article in The New American headlined: ‘Not Just Pronouns: Now Trans Activists Want to Control Your Bathroom Habits’, Selwyn Duke writes “It’s not enough for transgender activists to control how you speak with their pronoun prescriptions (e.g., ze, zir, zem). Now ze want to control your bathroom habits, too. Seriously.”.Duke says it came to his attention when men attending the APSA conference were asked to refrain from using urinals out of respect for others..A sign posted at the conference read the bathroom was for all-genders, adding “out of respect for all attendees, we ask that the urinals not be used.”.The issue, says Duke, was apparently women transitioning to men may be triggered, offended or disturbed because they can’t perform the call of nature standing up..Not that this is a new idea. Feminists in Sweden, Germany and Australia did this decades ago, also taking the aggressive stance position. .As the late Professor Walter Williams, an American economist, commentator and academic, said in 2020 the activists “want men to sit down while urinating. The main gripe: men standing up to urinate is deemed by these women as triumphing in their masculinity, a nasty macho gesture and by extension degrading to women.”.The story was picked up by Andrea Widburg in The American Thinker..“While the men line up in front of their urinals, these fake men are forced to acknowledge biological reality and head for the stalls,” writes Widburg. “I know this because I read an article at IQfy, an online lifestyle magazine that caters to the left, entitled ‘Encourage men to pee sitting down to be more inclusive of Trans Men.’ ”.“The article contains several gems, all intended to get natural-born men to pretend to be fake men with women’s excretory functions, with some claims of physical benefits,” writes Wedburg..“You tend to put more pressure on your bladder when sitting down to pee and this can be beneficial in urinating more.” .“Others are just desperate: 'Not taking an aggressive penis stance with penis held in hand shows that you are secure in your masculinity.'” .“Improved body image and a sense of calm.” .“Peeing standing is a sign of immaturity.” .“Sitting allows you to pet your dog while peeing.”.The whole idea of urinals is to speed up visits to washrooms at events attended by large crowds. .“If that conference truly had an all-gender bathroom, all that would happen is the lines would be twice as long as they need to be,” says Widburg, adding people living in the real world must take a stand (if they are men) and “reject this toddler-like obsession with toilet training.”.Not surprisingly, the Twitterverse was alive with comments..One Twitterite wrote it’s “like an act of a fealty to a militant minority of attendees.”.Someone named Catherine said: “I think this is the only time I wish I was a guy so I could go there and use a urinal in defiance.”.Another witty response: “Architectural Digest, 2023: ‘The Empowering Rise of the Purely Decorative Urinal.’”.And some satire: “If only we could devise a system whereby urinals are only placed in restrooms used by people with similar urinary anatomy who widely accept the use of urinals. But that’s obviously not practical….”