Septic masculinity: when homophobia prevents men from literally wiping their own asses

Cory Doctorow 6:42 am Sat Oct 14, 2017

Keith Calder has been looking around on Reddit and has found a string of messages from baffled, distressed women whose male romantic partners literally don't wipe their asses because touching themselves between the cheeks might make them gay.

The tales are a combination of unhygienic living (skidmarks on everything, always, including the bedsheets after lovemaking; the smell is unbelievable) and abusive, reactionary men who blow up at the suggestion that they should be wiping their asses.

The mind boggles.

A weird part of toxic masculinity is not knowing how to poop properly. pic.twitter.com/P3ilrIGsxT

— Keith Calder (@keithcalder) October 12, 2017

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