Definitely "Thread of the Month" material. May I digress?
Our children are males. One day many years ago I overheard my Lovely teaching the boys how they should take toilet paper and dab the tips of their weenies after taking a wiz. As a self respecting male and as a parent looking out for the psychological wellbeing of our children I had to step in.
I've always wondered why bad hygiene is so important to people who pee out of their dicks. It's nasty. There is not one male that I've ever done laundry for, which is quite a few, whose underwear did not smell like pee. Why would anyone think that's cool?
I've also been suggesting openly that maybe it's time to teach boys to wipe after peeing. Just seems to be no real reason not to. Of course, this comment may well get an onslaught of "reasons," but there really isn't any except for probably one of those weird, knuckle dragging, chest thumping norms that for some reason men think make them men and without it they would be women or gay or another stupid thing based in ignorance and insecurity and lack of empathy.
But then, men don't have to be any brighter or more aware or cleaner than they are because no one really challenges them to self reflect or look any deeper into their own assumptions, just like with these two dipshits who thought that, one, periods are gross (they are not), two, women can't hygiene their own periods, three, they are mens so they of course can fix this problem that doesn't actually exist, four, there is no need to ask women any questions about this, and five, the solution should be pink so girls will like it.
Just as a fun thought experiment, maybe
you could examine those assumptions and guess what's dumb about each of them.
I don't say any of this to be mean or to hurt anyone's fragile man-feelings, though the man-feelings will definitely get hurt, and I'm not actually in a rage like so many of you like to believe when I talk about certain things in terms you don't like. I say all this because it just needs to be said in various ways from various sources before it begins to seep past that big fluffy padding of never-having-to-think-about-women-beyond-the-most-superficial because-there's-no-consequences-for-you-if-you-don't-give-a-shit-about-half-the-human-race-beyond-the-sophomoric-assumptions-you-picked-up-in-childhood and into the collective man-conscious.
Not one of those things I listed is hard to figure out or notice what's stupid about it, meaning what
should be embarrassingly stupid about it. It's not that difficult to become aware of the reasons so many otherwise excellent humans have such unintended yet massive and consequential (for others) blind spots on reality and how they might overcome them.