Icacos
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances (2013)
This image has been posted recently on the forum, and some persons - myself included - have made light of it. However, I'm being serious here.
Aside from the drawing (which is what was made light of) the words above the drawing say, "Here, it is like this." I'm struggling with how to put this delicately, but in Europe is sitting on the toilet the proper way for a man to go when he needs to do number 1? Is this what mothers teach their little boys? I think if this is so then, as visitors to Europe, (not I personally, being a female) we need to be aware of this.
I say this because where I live one sees from time to time, signs in women's bathrooms advising women to sit on the toilet seat, and not stand on it and then squat to do one's business, the latter being the accepted way in some parts of the world, but not in North America.
It seems to me that the arguments can go all over the place, but my take is that it's a matter of just trying to keep the bathroom clean. A woman squatting down on a toilet seat - as opposed to sitting - can make an awful mess, the same as a man standing up to go, especially if he is not careful with his aim.
The world is a small place and I think we need to be aware of different cultural habits and to respect them. My question still stands: Do mothers in Europe teach their little boys to sit to go number one [sorry, I just can't use the other word] and not stand 'like Daddy' as we do here?
Aside from the drawing (which is what was made light of) the words above the drawing say, "Here, it is like this." I'm struggling with how to put this delicately, but in Europe is sitting on the toilet the proper way for a man to go when he needs to do number 1? Is this what mothers teach their little boys? I think if this is so then, as visitors to Europe, (not I personally, being a female) we need to be aware of this.
I say this because where I live one sees from time to time, signs in women's bathrooms advising women to sit on the toilet seat, and not stand on it and then squat to do one's business, the latter being the accepted way in some parts of the world, but not in North America.
It seems to me that the arguments can go all over the place, but my take is that it's a matter of just trying to keep the bathroom clean. A woman squatting down on a toilet seat - as opposed to sitting - can make an awful mess, the same as a man standing up to go, especially if he is not careful with his aim.
The world is a small place and I think we need to be aware of different cultural habits and to respect them. My question still stands: Do mothers in Europe teach their little boys to sit to go number one [sorry, I just can't use the other word] and not stand 'like Daddy' as we do here?