Cameron - Oct. 1, 2009

Gender “Rolls”

W. BRUCE CAMERON

The other day, I did something most men would consider impossible: I changed the toilet paper roll.

I know what you’re thinking: You’re thinking I probably put a fresh roll near the holder, maybe even on the holder, but that there’s no way I went against the instructions hard-wired into my XY chromosomes and actually removed the old tube and put in a new one, not unless someone’s invented a new electronic digital HD “Ultra Maximum” toilet-paper-changing device that I was eager to try out.

So let me be delicately diplomatic: You’re completely, embarrassingly wron...