The issue is raised in a New York Times editorial about marriage:
The most frequent dynamic I encounter among straight people, both in pop culture and in couples I know, is that of the annoyed wife and the clueless husband. I’ve heard female acquaintances lament — to name just a few examples — how frequently their husbands want sex, how infrequently their husbands want sex, how bad their husbands are at fixing their daughters’ hair, and how gracelessly their husbands endure upper respiratory infections, a.k.a. “man colds.” Meanwhile, in a scene in the new Pixar movie “Inside Out,” as the wife in the family sensitively tries to understand her daughter’s feelings, it’s revealed that the husband thinks a lot about sports and leaves the toilet seat up.
As it happens, my own husband thinks a lot about sports and leaves the toilet seat up (which I’m not crazy about, though at the risk of betraying my entire gender, I’ve never been sure why men are more obligated to leave the seat lowered than women are to leave it raised). ...CurtisSittenfeld,NYT
