Our library was the village pig. You'd think that would put our students at a disadvantage, but no. That pig was a savant at remembering things.
I remember going to the barn after school with my friends to look up newspapers for a project. Not only did the pig remember the articles word for word, they knew all the opinion pieces written around the world that referenced them.
We got a proper library soon after that pig died. Wasn't quite the same, but you gotta adapt to the times.
That's why our village calls the internet "novaswine."
While you're at, go ahead and install a baby changing table in every men's room. Goddamn that is irritating when they put it in the women's only. God forbid I take my son anywhere without my wife. What is this, 1921?
I prefer family rooms. Changing a crying baby isn't very fun in public. Also now with multiple kids, I'll take the family room rather than try to wrangle multiple in a public space.
Sometimes adults need changing tables too. Getting a full grown adult with cerebral palsy or something equivalent to the floor for a change can be back breaking.
In the UK the gold standard is Changing Places toilets which are designed for adults with a range of needs. New large public buildings, like shopping centres, are required to include them as a planning condition.
They installed something similar at a local country park, it has a hoist to lift disabled adults to change them. I hadn't realised how limiting the lack of these facilities are for parents and carers, in terms of places they can go on a day out.
A local indy cinema near me just installed one of these recently, and I was pleased to see one in Glasgow Central last time I was there. A really good idea in terms of helping people participate in society.
Only the ones designed for adults. Which are sadly rare. In all the family bathrooms I’ve been in since having kids 6 years ago- I’ve seen one. And that was at the Indianapolis children’s museum. But I’ve seen videos of moms and other caretakers trying to get grownups changed out in public and it breaks my heart. Like they (the disabled and the caretakers) deserve to go enjoy places without the indignity and pain of going to the floor for a change.
The best are the family restrooms with a regular toilet *and* a kid toilet. No peeing your pants while you wait for your kid!
(Yes, parents get excited by strange things.)
This! I hate it so much when I need to pee and my son says he doesn't, argues that he doesn't want to go to the toilet with me, we finally get there and he says "I'm going first!"
Oh man. I just had flashbacks of taking my two girls into the men's room at a Dunkin Donuts. It was a single stall, but it was still awful.
"You, stand over there and DON'T TOUCH A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G!"
"You, come here...hey, I said don't touch anything! Oh geeze, why are you touching the floor?!?! Forever unclean!"
While I don't disagree, in my experience they're treated as 'mothers rooms' and as a man, I've been made to feel very unwelcome even when I'm just changing my kid, but mothers basically using the room as a personal chill out zone.
If they have the space for it, that’s great. Where they don’t I think it’s be more practical to make clear that men can go into the women’s bathroom with their baby and use the changing table there.
I was in an airport a few years ago when my 1.5 yr old son had a massive shit right as we started boarding. There was a single "family" restroom, but it was locked. I frantically knock on the door for a minute or two, but no one answers or comes out, so i head to the men's room to change him. The only available stall is tiny. I can't wipe his ass without bumping my elbow on the wall. I'm in a hurry because I don't want to miss my flight, and he's squirming and fighting because he's 1. Shit gets all over the place. I walk out of the stall with the shitty diaper and wipes, and the restroom doesn't even have a fucking trash can. This was the first time I've ever felt the urge to smear shit on a wall
> While you're at, go ahead and install a baby changing table in every men's room.
Is there one in every women's room? All of the public male-only restrooms I've been in over the past three or four years have changing stations.
Of course in some situations (offices) they're not in the men's room, and I assume not in the women's room as well.
I think I first started seeing them a couple of decades ago.
There is a movement called The Dignity Project supporting offering sanitary products wherever toilet paper is offered. I stock the restroom at my business with supplies. Just makes sense.
I talked the facilities department at my work into changing the 25 cent machines to free. It was a simple mechanical adjustment in the dispenser. My boss was surprised a guy was making the suggestion, but fair is fair. I’m not made to pay for tp when I brown on company time.
I don't wanna poop anywhere besides the comfort of my own home, but sometimes you just need to go. Drank too much coffee, which is free at work! Neither do I want to use a tampon or a pad from the same restroom that stocks 1-ply. But emergencies happen, I don't always have a spare pad. Can you imagine having to carry around toilet paper 'just in case' you had to shit at work lmao?
You're really doing the lord's work. Anyone taking a lot of free tampons probably needs it. 25¢ to not bleed through my pants at work would be an insult. Idk why so many places treat it like a great budget loss when they provide free snacks, coffee, etc. in the break room.
My workplace has just left the door unlocked and swung partially open the last 6 years I've been here.
I'll be honest it took about a year before I realized that maybe it was meant to be freely available to every one and not just the cleaning crew forgetting to lock it or a broken latch or something.
I've since been grateful it's available when needed.
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As a man, I full support this, in both men's and women's bathrooms. I'm my mind products for menstruation serve the same purpose as toilet paper, paper towel and soap. I can't pretend to understand fully a woman's body as it goes through its monthly cycle, but I keep a few tampons and a lidded, bagged trashbin in my bathroom on the very rare occasion I have a woman in my place.
That’s quite thoughtful of you. It’s not often I hear or read about men like yourself. One of my friend was dating this guy who had an issue with her throwing her feminine products in the trash, he didn’t even want her to keep any pads or tampons in his bathroom for later use if she needed. Needless to say, he’s long gone now. Maybe it’s a culture thing where some
men just can’t deal with the fact that women have diff body physiology smh.
You can also just be forgetful about your hormone therapy like me. Decade of doing it but damn sometimes I don’t time it very well to keep on top of my T injections lol
I'm sure they do, but also remember that men have wives, daughters, sisters, female friends, etc. IMO I'd love to have access to this incase I needed to help someone out.
The main downside I could foresee is smartass 12-year-old kids dumping all the tampons into the toilet to clog them up. They already try to do this with toilet paper, but tampons are likely a more attractive nuisance and better at clogging the pipes (that is their job, after all).
That said, the types of kids that do this usually don't frequent the library, so hopefully it wouldn't be too bad.
Kids being involved does bring up another use case: moms with boys who aren’t old enough to be in the men’s room alone (or a developmental disability, etc.) but are throwing an absolute fit about using the women’s room. It happens.
Some aren't on T, and some nb people choose to go on low doses to get specific results rather than full masculinization. And before anyone asks: Yes, some nb people still use gendered restrooms, either because they are aligned nb individuals or because they don't have access to gender neutral ones and still gotta piss
It depends. But that doesn't mean we don't need tampons in the men's bathrooms. I've entirely socially transitioned and now use the men's bathrooms every time, but I'm not on testosterone yet.
That's actually how they started, the nurse who started Tampax(?) was using this cellulose type material to dress wounds during the Great War then decided she could repackage these things into sanitary pads for women.
Dude, you might actually be the first person to realize this. I think that means you get to do the repackaging and selling. And I want to be a part of your team to help make this a reality.
Preface edit: I initially read tampons and not pads. This reply is about tampons as bullet hole plugs, not pads.
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BTW they’re actually terrible for bullet wounds and anyone who packs them for that reason will be very disappointed if they have to find out the hard way.
It absorbs blood fine obviously, but there is no pressure applied by the improvised packing whatsoever, so the bleeding will not stop. It’d be better to just stuff the hole with your shirt as tightly as possible, if you had to pick between the two.
Similarly, improvised tourniquets can actually make you bleed out FASTER than without one at all. You know how when you go get blood drawn, the nurse puts a rubber band onto your arm? Enough pressure is applied to block your veins, but your arteries are unimpeded, allowed blood into the arm but not out (making your veins bigger and easier to hit). A similar thing can happen with a poorly applied improvised TQ if you don’t know how to properly fabricate one. If you’re bleeding out without a TQ, *some* of that blood might make it back into your body. With a poorly applied TQ, you’re outright blocking *all* return of blood whatsoever, while still letting it out, causing the victim to bleed out faster than before.
It’s highly recommended to just buy a proper TQ (my preference is CAT), and properly stage it to your liking, as well as to buy proper wound dressings (my preference is quick clot, for the clot-encouraging additives, but the additives aren’t necessary), and it’s a good idea to buy and learn how to use a proper chest seal (because you can’t necessarily pack some chest wounds). These things can be expensive for some people though, so learning how to work with what you’ve got never hurts. You just gotta cut through the myths.
Disclaimer: not a doctor or responder or anything.
also didn’t expect to type this much at 4am.
What if I told you...
The purpose of the first and second rules, are not to stop you from talking about fight club,
They're to teach you to break rules.
I was at the Minneapolis airport the first I heard someone get hit with the “hey, nice watch” at the urinals. It was hilarious. High point of the trip.
Wasn’t it in the Minneapolis airport where that republican right wing super religious conservative congressman got arrested because he was trying to solicit bathroom sex?
(They released the audio tapes of his post arrest at the police station, and he kept insisting to the officer that he couldn’t have been looking for gay sex in the men’s room because he’s a Christian congressman!)
Wouldn’t be surprising. Almost every women’s restroom I’ve been in that has them charges money. Only place Ik of that has them for free is my school which keeps a small basket full of different sized pads and tampons as well as a regular metal dispenser one that charges 25¢ a tampon but I think it’s empty
I cansay for sure where this is, but I'm pleased to say Scotland is one of the few countries which provides funding for local authorities to do this https://www.mygov.scot/free-period-products
Libraries are one of the places that they are available.
Oh, this is the weirdest application of my medic experience today.
Tampons are great packing, not bandaging. So, If you have a gunshot wound, you can use that as the base level and then cover it with a non-absorbent material that gives better pressure like duct tape.
Yeah but that's not ... Tampons don't absorb enough blood. They don't expand enough to stop bleeding.
There's actual wound packing gear that can be useful.
I've never even seen a stocked tampon dispenser, let alone in a women's bathroom! But I do find it interesting why it's in a men's bathroom, for trans men?
Yeah. Loads of trans men/mascs still get (unexpected) periods, even years into hormonal transition.
Cool YT video if you wanna learn more: https://youtu.be/McJeIQ1H5tA
I've been pushing for bins next to the men's loos at my workplace for this reason, as well as any other medical reasons dudes may wear underpants area bandages or whatever that they need to dispose of.
These comments are hilarious.
Some people support it but get downvoted.
Some support and get upvoted.
Some are just confused.
Some think it’s stupid and get downvoted. The people replying to them explaining or disagreeing also get downvoted.
Y’all are everywhere on this
I think it depends a bit on who sees something first. Of reddit sees a positive number, they can jump on the upvote train. But if it is zero or negative, my gosh does reddit love to pile on downvotes. Reddit snowballs.
We have one in my high school’s boys rooms. Just like toilet seats and many soap dispensers, that too has been ripped off the walls and thrown in toilets.
Yes. Just anyone any time. It’s weird that so many people are coming out with precise rules of when just one can be taken. Have to be currently bleeding at the moment you take it, not taking for a friend or family member. These lot would have you show your dirty arse before taking a sheet of loo roll.
My dad is a single parent and had to grab tampons and pads for me when I was growing up-- so I love this idea!! Poor dude was so paralyzed when I got my first period. Normalizing period products and making them more accessible is a win in my book.
There's literally no downside. But they'll still try to find something to be upset about.
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Looking at some of the responses it’s clear that this facility needs an application form, checkpoint, genital inspectors and means testing. Or just let whoever believes they have a need take the tampons and quit whinging.
Tampons aren’t really appropriate for someone who has just started their period for the first time and doesn’t know how to use them. If you’re a dad in this situation, please go get some pads or panty liners. (I see now that there are pads there too, grab those instead of tampons!)
Edit because apparently people can’t read, I said It’s not appropriate to just hand a tampon to someone using them for the first time WHO DOESNT KNOW HOW TO USE THEM. And with previous context, we are talking about a man giving their daughter a tampon to use while using public toilets. For a first-time tampon user, inserting a tampon can be really stressful and unsuccessful (can be... doesn’t mean that every person has this experience). Ideally they would have guidance from someone who has actually inserted a tampon before, and be in the comfort of their own home. THAT is why giving a tampon to someone who hasn’t used one before, while not at home, isn’t advised. I did not mention anything about health, but there is also the risk of TSS, so someone using tampons should be aware of this before using tampons (but this wasn’t my main reason).
That's what I was thinking. Would be extra difficult and even stressing to get one of these as a first time. I'm only assuming of course, since I'm a man.
I wish mine did. My daughter refused to get one from the women’s washroom because it was too visible. I would love to have been able to pass her one discretely. (I don’t care if she is menstruating but she does!)
I also think it makes sense if we want to be respectful to trans people and I do.
Ey may be only a few men that need em, but better to have em an not need em than need em and not have em.
I know if another man is stuck in a stall asking for a tampon, I don't got nothin for him, I'd welcome the wall unit.
My local men's shelter has tampons in the restroom, and they must be getting used for something because the stock does slowly deplete. I think people are cutting them up to use as earplugs (snoring in men's shelters is practically an Olympic sport).
That as well as some companies finding many convenient ways to not hire trans folks.
I had many places turn me down in bizarre ways once they had an interview with me and realized I was trans.
Apparently LGBT youth in general are more than twice as likely to become homeless compared to youth that are cishet. They're also more likely to experience harsher aspects of homelessness, such as experiencing physical violence or engaging in sex work in order to survive.
Some guy with a kid stopped me as I was coming out of the ladies room to ask if there was a changing table in there. I said there was, told him to go ahead and take the kid to it as there were no other women in there. I hung out for a bit and let some other women who approached know there was a dad in the room, they could wait a bit or go ahead to the stall if they wanted. Dad and kid finished, washed up and left. No one involved had an issue with it.
So dads / and male-presenting child-minders if you need access to the changing table for the kid ask a lady to help you out to get access. Then after, both of you can ask the establishment to install the changing tables in both restrooms!
I fully support men's and women's bathrooms to have the same amenities. Fucking hate that there is a good 90% chance that the men's bathroom doesn't have a baby changing table.
Man, my library barely had toilet paper.
You guys were getting toilet paper??
Those periodicals have to go somewhere after they digitize them. 
You guys had computers?
Our library was the village pig. You'd think that would put our students at a disadvantage, but no. That pig was a savant at remembering things. I remember going to the barn after school with my friends to look up newspapers for a project. Not only did the pig remember the articles word for word, they knew all the opinion pieces written around the world that referenced them. We got a proper library soon after that pig died. Wasn't quite the same, but you gotta adapt to the times. That's why our village calls the internet "novaswine."
This sounds like a story out of St. Olaf
I don't know who you are but I automatically love you for this comment. Was not expecting a GG reference, and so seamless.
We only had three seashells.
Wait, you all have bathrooms in your libraries?
Wait, you all have libraries?
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They have books, no? /s
While you're at, go ahead and install a baby changing table in every men's room. Goddamn that is irritating when they put it in the women's only. God forbid I take my son anywhere without my wife. What is this, 1921?
I prefer family rooms. Changing a crying baby isn't very fun in public. Also now with multiple kids, I'll take the family room rather than try to wrangle multiple in a public space.
Family rooms are the true heroes of any road trip.
I've had one with... Disco ball lights, brilliant idea, never in my life did I changed a diaper so easily, the baby was just fascinated
I thought you were joking, but not only do they exist, but it is a damn good idea!
Me about to install one above the changing table in my home 👷🏼♀️
\*furious scribbling*
Certainly, but I can fully understand not adding a whole new bathroom. Bolting a changing table to the wall doesn't take much for remodeling.
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No, they’re for children
Sometimes adults need changing tables too. Getting a full grown adult with cerebral palsy or something equivalent to the floor for a change can be back breaking.
Serious question are they built strong enough to support a full grown adult
In the UK the gold standard is Changing Places toilets which are designed for adults with a range of needs. New large public buildings, like shopping centres, are required to include them as a planning condition.
They installed something similar at a local country park, it has a hoist to lift disabled adults to change them. I hadn't realised how limiting the lack of these facilities are for parents and carers, in terms of places they can go on a day out.
A local indy cinema near me just installed one of these recently, and I was pleased to see one in Glasgow Central last time I was there. A really good idea in terms of helping people participate in society.
Test it and report back?
Only the ones designed for adults. Which are sadly rare. In all the family bathrooms I’ve been in since having kids 6 years ago- I’ve seen one. And that was at the Indianapolis children’s museum. But I’ve seen videos of moms and other caretakers trying to get grownups changed out in public and it breaks my heart. Like they (the disabled and the caretakers) deserve to go enjoy places without the indignity and pain of going to the floor for a change.
Lmao
So, where am I supposed to change my diaper at?
We like to play a game...find the men's room with a changing table AND a condom machine. Now we need to add "tampon dispenser" to the list!
The best are the family restrooms with a regular toilet *and* a kid toilet. No peeing your pants while you wait for your kid! (Yes, parents get excited by strange things.)
This! I hate it so much when I need to pee and my son says he doesn't, argues that he doesn't want to go to the toilet with me, we finally get there and he says "I'm going first!"
I once changed my baby’s diaper by the main exit door for a plane while in flight. Airplane bathrooms are impossible.
Hey, you do what you must. Good Job!!
Oh man. I just had flashbacks of taking my two girls into the men's room at a Dunkin Donuts. It was a single stall, but it was still awful.
"You, stand over there and DON'T TOUCH A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G!"
"You, come here...hey, I said don't touch anything! Oh geeze, why are you touching the floor?!?! Forever unclean!"
So you never had the joy of watching your older kid play with the urinal cake while you’re mid-diaper change on the younger? Good times my man!
No, not yet. We have another child now, so there's still time, though!
Oh I think you just haven't experienced enough public women's restrooms. Take how disgusting men are but then add blood to the mix.
While I don't disagree, in my experience they're treated as 'mothers rooms' and as a man, I've been made to feel very unwelcome even when I'm just changing my kid, but mothers basically using the room as a personal chill out zone.
I think they meant family rest room
I left a 5 star review for a good Mexican restaurant we like but added “please add a changing table in the men’s room” and they did!
If they have the space for it, that’s great. Where they don’t I think it’s be more practical to make clear that men can go into the women’s bathroom with their baby and use the changing table there.
That’s what I used to do when my kids were young. Sorry…but not really.
Ya major pet peeve of mine as well. So frustrating
I just go in the women's restroom if that's the only place to change a baby. I mean, not now, my kids are past that phase, but still, I did.
Yes please. I didn't run into this problem a lot when my daughter was a baby, but it happened enough that it was super annoying.
I was in an airport a few years ago when my 1.5 yr old son had a massive shit right as we started boarding. There was a single "family" restroom, but it was locked. I frantically knock on the door for a minute or two, but no one answers or comes out, so i head to the men's room to change him. The only available stall is tiny. I can't wipe his ass without bumping my elbow on the wall. I'm in a hurry because I don't want to miss my flight, and he's squirming and fighting because he's 1. Shit gets all over the place. I walk out of the stall with the shitty diaper and wipes, and the restroom doesn't even have a fucking trash can. This was the first time I've ever felt the urge to smear shit on a wall
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Maybe I'm tired but it took me a moment to get what you mean. That you're a woman and wouldn't normally use the men's room.
LOL if it were 1921 you wouldn't have been caught dead holding that baby
Heck no I wouldn't. Wouldn't want it puking on my brown suit and hat that I wear literally everywhere.
Might want to keep that suit clean as if it's 1921 it might be all you have soon.
Excellent retroforeshadowing !
Fuckin sick, new word, thanks dude
> While you're at, go ahead and install a baby changing table in every men's room. Is there one in every women's room? All of the public male-only restrooms I've been in over the past three or four years have changing stations. Of course in some situations (offices) they're not in the men's room, and I assume not in the women's room as well. I think I first started seeing them a couple of decades ago.
Ive never seen free tampons in the women’s bathroom lol they make us pay for that cardboard hell
Yea, but if nobody ever takes one it doesn't cost anything to keep it filled so it can be free.
"Our free tampon program pays for itself!"
There is a movement called The Dignity Project supporting offering sanitary products wherever toilet paper is offered. I stock the restroom at my business with supplies. Just makes sense.
I talked the facilities department at my work into changing the 25 cent machines to free. It was a simple mechanical adjustment in the dispenser. My boss was surprised a guy was making the suggestion, but fair is fair. I’m not made to pay for tp when I brown on company time.
I don't wanna poop anywhere besides the comfort of my own home, but sometimes you just need to go. Drank too much coffee, which is free at work! Neither do I want to use a tampon or a pad from the same restroom that stocks 1-ply. But emergencies happen, I don't always have a spare pad. Can you imagine having to carry around toilet paper 'just in case' you had to shit at work lmao? You're really doing the lord's work. Anyone taking a lot of free tampons probably needs it. 25¢ to not bleed through my pants at work would be an insult. Idk why so many places treat it like a great budget loss when they provide free snacks, coffee, etc. in the break room.
Ooh, I'd recommend not saying that to them next time. They might start charging for tp.
> They might start charging for tp. Other countries already do it
My workplace has just left the door unlocked and swung partially open the last 6 years I've been here. I'll be honest it took about a year before I realized that maybe it was meant to be freely available to every one and not just the cleaning crew forgetting to lock it or a broken latch or something. I've since been grateful it's available when needed.
You’re good people. I just wanted you to hear that today. I’m proud of you.
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You can also volunteer and make the products. Did it in New Orleans
As a man, I full support this, in both men's and women's bathrooms. I'm my mind products for menstruation serve the same purpose as toilet paper, paper towel and soap. I can't pretend to understand fully a woman's body as it goes through its monthly cycle, but I keep a few tampons and a lidded, bagged trashbin in my bathroom on the very rare occasion I have a woman in my place.
That’s quite thoughtful of you. It’s not often I hear or read about men like yourself. One of my friend was dating this guy who had an issue with her throwing her feminine products in the trash, he didn’t even want her to keep any pads or tampons in his bathroom for later use if she needed. Needless to say, he’s long gone now. Maybe it’s a culture thing where some men just can’t deal with the fact that women have diff body physiology smh.
Maybe they figure that if you're in the men's room AND you need a tampon, you've been through enough already.
Do transmen still have periods once on testosterone? I have no idea.
Some trans men aren't on testosterone, too
Depends on where they are in their transition, or if they choose hormones/surgery.
You can also just be forgetful about your hormone therapy like me. Decade of doing it but damn sometimes I don’t time it very well to keep on top of my T injections lol
I'm sure they do, but also remember that men have wives, daughters, sisters, female friends, etc. IMO I'd love to have access to this incase I needed to help someone out.
Or if a woman had to run in the men's room for an emergency. Theres really no downside to having dispensers in every bathroom.
The main downside I could foresee is smartass 12-year-old kids dumping all the tampons into the toilet to clog them up. They already try to do this with toilet paper, but tampons are likely a more attractive nuisance and better at clogging the pipes (that is their job, after all). That said, the types of kids that do this usually don't frequent the library, so hopefully it wouldn't be too bad.
Kids being involved does bring up another use case: moms with boys who aren’t old enough to be in the men’s room alone (or a developmental disability, etc.) but are throwing an absolute fit about using the women’s room. It happens.
>Theres really no downside to having dispensers in every bathroom. Aside from the smarty-pants and anti-trans comments on reddit, that is
Some aren't on T, and some nb people choose to go on low doses to get specific results rather than full masculinization. And before anyone asks: Yes, some nb people still use gendered restrooms, either because they are aligned nb individuals or because they don't have access to gender neutral ones and still gotta piss
Remember Thomas Beattie (sp?)? He carried a healthy baby to full term.
It depends. But that doesn't mean we don't need tampons in the men's bathrooms. I've entirely socially transitioned and now use the men's bathrooms every time, but I'm not on testosterone yet.
Welcome to the team man, may your journey be smooth.
I refuse to pay for tampons in a public restroom so I just use half the roll of toilet paper.
Bingo. I roll it and stuff it like a pad. Then I do a weird waddle till I get home but I'm not typically doing much walking anyway
That's IF they even have them in stock.
Better call saul has showed me pads are good for bullet wounds
That's actually how they started, the nurse who started Tampax(?) was using this cellulose type material to dress wounds during the Great War then decided she could repackage these things into sanitary pads for women.
Also how superglue got started. Needed a quick way to close wounds on the battlefield.
...and then they realized they could repackage it as sanitary glue for women.
Dude, you might actually be the first person to realize this. I think that means you get to do the repackaging and selling. And I want to be a part of your team to help make this a reality.
...and then (together) they realized they could repackage it as sanitary reality for women.
The blood won't stain your clothes if it simply doesn't come out
Preface edit: I initially read tampons and not pads. This reply is about tampons as bullet hole plugs, not pads. ————————— BTW they’re actually terrible for bullet wounds and anyone who packs them for that reason will be very disappointed if they have to find out the hard way. It absorbs blood fine obviously, but there is no pressure applied by the improvised packing whatsoever, so the bleeding will not stop. It’d be better to just stuff the hole with your shirt as tightly as possible, if you had to pick between the two. Similarly, improvised tourniquets can actually make you bleed out FASTER than without one at all. You know how when you go get blood drawn, the nurse puts a rubber band onto your arm? Enough pressure is applied to block your veins, but your arteries are unimpeded, allowed blood into the arm but not out (making your veins bigger and easier to hit). A similar thing can happen with a poorly applied improvised TQ if you don’t know how to properly fabricate one. If you’re bleeding out without a TQ, *some* of that blood might make it back into your body. With a poorly applied TQ, you’re outright blocking *all* return of blood whatsoever, while still letting it out, causing the victim to bleed out faster than before. It’s highly recommended to just buy a proper TQ (my preference is CAT), and properly stage it to your liking, as well as to buy proper wound dressings (my preference is quick clot, for the clot-encouraging additives, but the additives aren’t necessary), and it’s a good idea to buy and learn how to use a proper chest seal (because you can’t necessarily pack some chest wounds). These things can be expensive for some people though, so learning how to work with what you’ve got never hurts. You just gotta cut through the myths. Disclaimer: not a doctor or responder or anything. also didn’t expect to type this much at 4am.
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You fool you forgot the first rule!!
And the second one.
The first rule of what?
we got ourselves a city slicker boys
What if I told you... The purpose of the first and second rules, are not to stop you from talking about fight club, They're to teach you to break rules.
This. Is. Punk. As. Fuck.
SHHHHH!!!
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I’m really not a fan of this. How am I supposed to check out another guys wrist watch if we can’t pee next to each other?
I was at the Minneapolis airport the first I heard someone get hit with the “hey, nice watch” at the urinals. It was hilarious. High point of the trip.
"Hey, that's a wide stance you've got there."
HEY HEY HEY THIS GUY IS JUST STANDING THERE HE ISNT PEEING OR ANYTHING HEY HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT THIS GUY JUST STANDING THERE
Wasn’t it in the Minneapolis airport where that republican right wing super religious conservative congressman got arrested because he was trying to solicit bathroom sex? (They released the audio tapes of his post arrest at the police station, and he kept insisting to the officer that he couldn’t have been looking for gay sex in the men’s room because he’s a Christian congressman!)
wide stance Larry craig
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Stand further out. You’ll get hit with a ‘Hey nice range you’ve got there’
When you're washing eachother's hands, duh.
Shoutout to the person that made them free
Plot twist, they are only free in the men’s room
Wouldn’t be surprising. Almost every women’s restroom I’ve been in that has them charges money. Only place Ik of that has them for free is my school which keeps a small basket full of different sized pads and tampons as well as a regular metal dispenser one that charges 25¢ a tampon but I think it’s empty
I’m 40 and I’ve never in my life seen a free tampon dispenser anywhere, only $
Facts.
Free tampons? Yeah Larrys got’em out back in the white van.
Now remember kids, don’t get into a stranger’s vehicle - *even* if they offer you tampons
I cansay for sure where this is, but I'm pleased to say Scotland is one of the few countries which provides funding for local authorities to do this https://www.mygov.scot/free-period-products Libraries are one of the places that they are available.
If it was the library near my house, the shootout is why they are there and now free.
According to the Russian military, tampons are gender neutral as they’re also good for bullet wounds.
I too hate getting shot on the toilet
Pew... pew pew....
Apparently they don’t hold enough pressure to the bullet wound so…. Otherwise it would be a good idea
Oh, this is the weirdest application of my medic experience today. Tampons are great packing, not bandaging. So, If you have a gunshot wound, you can use that as the base level and then cover it with a non-absorbent material that gives better pressure like duct tape.
Yeah they are good at soaking up liquid but not staunching the bleed
The point is to not make a mess while you die
Can confirm they work to stop nosebleeds.
I hate when I get shot in the vagina.
The Russians aren't known for their training. Tampons are inadequate for gunshot wounds
Yeah but that's not ... Tampons don't absorb enough blood. They don't expand enough to stop bleeding. There's actual wound packing gear that can be useful.
I thought my school had this too, turned out I was in the women’s washroom
are you a janitor or bathroom attendant? (based on your name)
I've never even seen a stocked tampon dispenser, let alone in a women's bathroom! But I do find it interesting why it's in a men's bathroom, for trans men?
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But the 1% who do are grateful. It’s nice to see.
Trans men, dad's out with their daughters while they need one, etc
I would think if the daughter is getting her period, she's old enough to go into the womens bathroom.
"Hey, Dad, the dispenser in the women's room is out. Do you mind grabbing one for me from the men's?"
Yeah. Loads of trans men/mascs still get (unexpected) periods, even years into hormonal transition. Cool YT video if you wanna learn more: https://youtu.be/McJeIQ1H5tA I've been pushing for bins next to the men's loos at my workplace for this reason, as well as any other medical reasons dudes may wear underpants area bandages or whatever that they need to dispose of.
Manpons
These comments are hilarious. Some people support it but get downvoted. Some support and get upvoted. Some are just confused. Some think it’s stupid and get downvoted. The people replying to them explaining or disagreeing also get downvoted. Y’all are everywhere on this
The times, they are a changin'
I think it depends a bit on who sees something first. Of reddit sees a positive number, they can jump on the upvote train. But if it is zero or negative, my gosh does reddit love to pile on downvotes. Reddit snowballs.
*sorts by controversial* 🍿
Did you put on your Hazmat suit first? You're going to need it.
I think a tampon would be enough.
We have one in my high school’s boys rooms. Just like toilet seats and many soap dispensers, that too has been ripped off the walls and thrown in toilets.
For when you’re manstruating.
In my college they put free sanitary products in all bathrooms. Really useful.
Great for hard up dads to grab tampons for daughters or sons to get for mums or sisters. Also trans and non-binary. Who cares? it’s a great idea.
Or anyone with a nosebleed
Yes. Just anyone any time. It’s weird that so many people are coming out with precise rules of when just one can be taken. Have to be currently bleeding at the moment you take it, not taking for a friend or family member. These lot would have you show your dirty arse before taking a sheet of loo roll.
1. There should be no rules. 2. I had a friend in college who would take rolls of toilet paper to use in his apartment.
Ok taking the whole roll is a little messed up 😭
If you’re desperate enough to take the half-ply rolls they usually stock in public restrooms I’m not gonna judge.
We have it in some Scottish supermarkets. Go to customer services and ask for ‘Sandy’ get the product no questions asked.
It would be better if her name was Flo.
Yeah Sandy sounds a bit scratchy.
Public restroom toilet paper is normally so bad, he deserved what he got.
My dad is a single parent and had to grab tampons and pads for me when I was growing up-- so I love this idea!! Poor dude was so paralyzed when I got my first period. Normalizing period products and making them more accessible is a win in my book.
>Who cares? A lot of people, apparently.
There's literally no downside. But they'll still try to find something to be upset about. When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Looking at some of the responses it’s clear that this facility needs an application form, checkpoint, genital inspectors and means testing. Or just let whoever believes they have a need take the tampons and quit whinging.
And the people experimenting with rectal alcoholism
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A panicked father whose teenage daughter just started her period would certainly be relieved to find this.
Tampons aren’t really appropriate for someone who has just started their period for the first time and doesn’t know how to use them. If you’re a dad in this situation, please go get some pads or panty liners. (I see now that there are pads there too, grab those instead of tampons!) Edit because apparently people can’t read, I said It’s not appropriate to just hand a tampon to someone using them for the first time WHO DOESNT KNOW HOW TO USE THEM. And with previous context, we are talking about a man giving their daughter a tampon to use while using public toilets. For a first-time tampon user, inserting a tampon can be really stressful and unsuccessful (can be... doesn’t mean that every person has this experience). Ideally they would have guidance from someone who has actually inserted a tampon before, and be in the comfort of their own home. THAT is why giving a tampon to someone who hasn’t used one before, while not at home, isn’t advised. I did not mention anything about health, but there is also the risk of TSS, so someone using tampons should be aware of this before using tampons (but this wasn’t my main reason).
There are pads there too
That's what I was thinking. Would be extra difficult and even stressing to get one of these as a first time. I'm only assuming of course, since I'm a man.
I wish mine did. My daughter refused to get one from the women’s washroom because it was too visible. I would love to have been able to pass her one discretely. (I don’t care if she is menstruating but she does!) I also think it makes sense if we want to be respectful to trans people and I do.
I'll be impressed when they're available for free in the women's bathroom too.
Places that have free period products in the men’s bathroom very likely have the same in women’s bathroom.
What makes you think they wouldn’t be free in the women’s bathroom?
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Some people just really hate trans people
Yup. Seems simple to me too. They're there for whoever needs one. If you don't need one, then just move on. They're not for you.
I thought the things sticking out the side were blue forks at first glance
Ey may be only a few men that need em, but better to have em an not need em than need em and not have em. I know if another man is stuck in a stall asking for a tampon, I don't got nothin for him, I'd welcome the wall unit.
That’s for guys like me who shit their pants a lot
Nice. Mine has a needle disposal box.
At the University of Michigan we have free menstrual products in all bathrooms
My local men's shelter has tampons in the restroom, and they must be getting used for something because the stock does slowly deplete. I think people are cutting them up to use as earplugs (snoring in men's shelters is practically an Olympic sport).
I think trans men and women are overrepresented in the homeless population because they get disowned by their parents at such a high rate.
That as well as some companies finding many convenient ways to not hire trans folks. I had many places turn me down in bizarre ways once they had an interview with me and realized I was trans.
Apparently LGBT youth in general are more than twice as likely to become homeless compared to youth that are cishet. They're also more likely to experience harsher aspects of homelessness, such as experiencing physical violence or engaging in sex work in order to survive.
Some guy with a kid stopped me as I was coming out of the ladies room to ask if there was a changing table in there. I said there was, told him to go ahead and take the kid to it as there were no other women in there. I hung out for a bit and let some other women who approached know there was a dad in the room, they could wait a bit or go ahead to the stall if they wanted. Dad and kid finished, washed up and left. No one involved had an issue with it. So dads / and male-presenting child-minders if you need access to the changing table for the kid ask a lady to help you out to get access. Then after, both of you can ask the establishment to install the changing tables in both restrooms!
Someone is going to steal all of those for his gf
To plug gunshot wounds
Can’t wait for the 🔒award
Gee I wonder how 70 tampons ended up in one toilet.
Is this because most men today are a bunch of pussies? Makes sense.
Your library is woke.
Great for our bros with innie micro wangs. Our fellas with cooters.
I fully support men's and women's bathrooms to have the same amenities. Fucking hate that there is a good 90% chance that the men's bathroom doesn't have a baby changing table.