Head takes a stand on boys who miss

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Norway has become embroiled in a dispute over the nature of masculinity after a primary school headmistress tried to ban boys from urinating while standing up. Anne Lise Gjul, the headmistress of a mixed primary school in the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand, wanted to introduce the measure after complaints from cleaners that many male pupils could not aim properly. The measure has drawn condemnation from Right-wing Norwegian politicians, however, who say it blurs a God-given distinction between the sexes. "If boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way that they have done for generations, then it amounts to an assault on God's creations," thundered Vidar Kleppe, the head of Norway's Justice and Order party.

source: Article 'Head takes a stand on boys who miss' by Tony Paterson; www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/15/wee15.xml; Telegraph; 15 October 2006