Tampons for men's bathrooms at Brown University, USA

Skullface McGubbin

You've read that right. In recent news, There are plans for putting tampon dispensers in men's bathrooms at Brown University in the USA.

http://www.newsweek.com/free-tampons-pads-us-schools-496083

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/08/brown-university-provide-tampons-mens-bathrooms/

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8105

Because the average man uses the bathroom and thinks to himself "I really need a tampon right now". Right?

Anyway, here's an interesting quote

Brown University's student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products to all nonresidential bathrooms on campus, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students.
The initiative is intended to communicate the message that "pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury," and that not all people who menstruate are women.

eviltwin

I suppose a transgender male may need one and be caught short. He can hardly go into the ladies. I'm not sure what the big deal is tbh. Those who want to use them will, those who won't won't. The sooner we get rid of men's and women's loos and just go with unisex the better.

super_furry

I would have thought that the hormones that transgender men take would mean that they don't menstruate. Could be very wrong though.

No big deal either way really. Lets be honest, they'll all be taken by lads who end up sticking them of the backs of their mates.

Special Circumstances

First fortnight of these being available every lad who turns his back on his drink is gonna find a surprise when he turns back.

Not all those who wander are lost, not all those who menstruate are women. Tolkienesque isn't it, poetic. Mmmm reminds me of a warm safe space.

Will there be urinals in the female toilets?

Skullface McGubbin

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Will there be urinals in the female toilets?

Judging by the way things are going, you can bet on it.

OU812

Many years ago, during a severe bout of turbulence combined with an infected sinus at cruising level meant something up my nose burst resulting in a torrent of puss & blood through my nose. Two quick thinking American airlines stewardesses pushed my head back in the chair & pushed a tampon up each nostril, (well they are meant for stopping blood, right?).

All well and good until we'd landed & they wouldn't let me remove them, nor walk as my front was covered in blood & they were concerned with my blood loss at high altitude, so I had to sit there while they emptied the plane & everyone filing past stared me, then they brought a wheelchair on & wheeled me to the medical centre where I was checked out, so... not all people who need tampons are women.

ballsymchugh

OU812 wrote: »

Many years ago, during a severe bout of turbulence combined with an infected sinus at cruising level meant something up my nose burst resulting in a torrent of puss & blood through my nose. Two quick thinking American airlines stewardesses pushed my head back in the chair & pushed a tampon up each nostril, (well they are meant for stopping blood, right?).

All well and good until we'd landed & they wouldn't let me remove them, nor walk as my front was covered in blood & they were concerned with my blood loss at high altitude, so I had to sit there while they emptied the plane & everyone filing past stared me, then they brought a wheelchair on & wheeled me to the medical centre where I was checked out, so... not all people who need tampons are women.

they're very handy to maintain the shape of the nose if someone gets a punch in the face too!!

Hellrazer

ballsymchugh wrote: »

they're very handy to maintain the shape of the nose if someone gets a punch in the face too!!

Also heard theyre good for treating gunshot wounds.
Being the good old USA they'll probably be useful!!!

But on a serious note this is PC gone absolutely nuts.

"Women arent the only ones who menstruate"

Em sorry basic junior cert biology will tell you different.

Special Circumstances

I have a strange urge to go mountain climbing and salsa dancing.

eviltwin

eviltwin wrote: »

I suppose a transgender male may need one and be caught short. He can hardly go into the ladies. I'm not sure what the big deal is tbh. Those who want to use them will, those who won't won't. The sooner we get rid of men's and women's loos and just go with unisex the better.

Why would we do that? I dont want to share my bathroom with the opposite sex?

Pawwed Rig

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Why would we do that? I dont want to share my bathroom with the opposite sex?

Why? Afraid someone will see your winky?

Special Circumstances

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Why? Afraid someone will see your winky?

Implied small willy joke.
Wow.
That's the best argument for unisex toilets? If you're happy as things are you must have a small willy?

Pawwed Rig

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Implied small willy joke.
Wow.
That's the best argument for unisex toilets? If you're happy as things are you must have a small willy?

Not at all. Just didn't know if the poster was male or female so used a term that could apply to either. Not sure where small penis implication came from? ?

Kat1170

Well in fairness, some lads I know are a pair of C*nts all on their own :rolleyes:

Seth Brundle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R79yYo2aOZs

Speedwell

Seems to me that it would be especially handy if the ladies' loo is out of commission and hey have to use the mens'; I have seen it happen. They put baby changing stations in mens' bathrooms, too, and the fuss over that at the time was just nuts.

bee06

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Why? Afraid someone will see your winky?

To be honest, I don't particularly want to share a bathroom with men. The smell out of most male public toilets is horrible! Or maybe I'm just frequently in places with very low standards of hygiene.

Pawwed Rig

bee06 wrote: »

To be honest, I don't particularly want to share a bathroom with men. The smell out of most male public toilets is horrible! Or maybe I'm just frequently in places with very low standards of hygiene.

Ah ok. The old men smell argument.

I have been to hundreds of mens toilets in my life and can honestly say the vast majority are fine. Not sure where you are living but it can't be in western europe.

bee06

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Ah ok. The old men smell argument.

I have been to hundreds of mens toilets in my life and can honestly say the vast majority are fine. Not sure where you are living but it can't be in western europe.

I'm not saying men smell. I'm saying men's bathrooms smell. It's a kind of strange chemically smell.

eviltwin

bee06 wrote: »

I'm not saying men smell. I'm saying men's bathrooms smell. It's a kind of strange chemically smell.

Are they not cleaned the same way as the women's loos are? Maybe the issue is the urinal, its more open so possibly more smelly.

I work in a place with communal loos and I share my bathroom at home with men so its not a big deal for me to share a bathroom in a pub or cafe or wherever.

Dial Hard

bee06 wrote:

I'm not saying men smell. I'm saying men's bathrooms smell. It's a kind of strange chemically smell.

It's urinal cakes.

Unisex single cubicles are the way foward. I honestly can't see why anyone would object to them. They haven't put the likes of Milano Dundrum, Bear or Diep Noodle Bar out of business anyway.

endacl

Y'know that awkard moment in the student bar when you have the great idea to drop a tampon in somebody's pint, but there's no girl in the group to nip into the ladies to get one?

Brown University. Facilitating juvenile student prankery since 1764.

johnnyskeleton

bee06 wrote: »

I'm not saying men smell. I'm saying men's bathrooms smell. It's a kind of strange chemically smell.

Womens toilets smell too unless they are properly cleaned!

Source: many moons ago i had t clean the toilets in a hotel and i couldnt say that either mens nor womens toilets smelled better or worse. Mind you, there may be places where less women go so the toilets are less used, or where the management doesnt require that the mens toilets be as well cleaned as the womens toilets. But thats bad management/poor supervision rather than any inherent quality.

johnnyskeleton

Dial Hard wrote: »

It's urinal cakes.

Unisex single cubicles are the way foward. I honestly can't see why anyone would object to them. They haven't put the likes of Milano Dundrum, Bear or Diep Noodle Bar out of business anyway.

In Australia in some places they have mens, womens and a single unisex/handicapped for anyone who cant use either. Good idea i think.

Pawwed Rig

Ah ok it will be the urinal cakes alright.
How do you even know what they smell like. As I said I have been to hundreds of toilets but very few female ones so I would have no idea of the smell or otherwise.
You get used to it btw. With unisex it would be overpowered by touch ups in perfume and deoderant anyway.

Without being too graphic, I know a Friend of mine who sometimes uses tampons.
He uses them after a particularly ' good' night... If you know what I mean!!
He reckons lots of gay guys use them.


On unisex toilets, surely we all use them at home? Plenty of cafe etc I have been in have only one toilet, we all use them. What's the big deal? Has to be easier for premises just to have one toilet area.

Special Circumstances

Not all who menstruate are women... will the manufacturers now be obliged to show men in their ads? It would be a bit sexist not to show men as the central characters of these ads now wouldn't it? Discrimination against menstruating men like?

Whole load of lads mountain biking and heading for drinks after?

"I don't always menstruate, but when I do... I always use Always"

lazybones32

If wearing tampons or sanitary towels help you to win soccer games and give you irrepressible confidence, like the ads portray, then I'd consider wearing one myself. Does anyone know which is the better type - the one with wings or the one you shove up your hole? TIA.

L1011

bubblypop wrote: »

Without being too graphic, I know a Friend of mine who sometimes uses tampons.
He uses them after a particularly ' good' night... If you know what I mean!!
He reckons lots of gay guys use them.

You're making this up.

Its not 1975. Just give up, thanks.

(other option is that your friend has actually never had sex and hasn't got the slightest clue, but I still suspect you're making it up)

Pawwed Rig

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Why? Afraid someone will see your winky?

Yes

Dial Hard

Dial Hard wrote: »

It's urinal cakes.

Unisex single cubicles are the way foward. I honestly can't see why anyone would object to them. They haven't put the likes of Milano Dundrum, Bear or Diep Noodle Bar out of business anyway.

Hell no! Urinals make it quick to go in, go for a leak and leave. Look at the line for womens toilets in nightclubs, the line is always massive. I like urinals.

Honestly why all of a sudden in the past year has this toilet sh!te become such a big issue?

L1011

Plenty of gay bars have unisex toilets with a urinal room, for those that piss standing up. Works.

mzungu

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Not all who menstruate are women... will the manufacturers now be obliged to show men in their ads? It would be a bit sexist not to show men as the central characters of these ads now wouldn't it? Discrimination against menstruating men like?

When it makes good business sense, but not before then. Although, it may never make good business sense.

Special Circumstances

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hell no! Urinals make it quick to go in, go for a leak and leave. Look at the line for womens toilets in nightclubs, the line is always massive. I like urinals.

Honestly why all of a sudden in the past year has this toilet sh!te become such a big issue?

Check your urinary privilege! You'll wait in an orderly doubly long line for a cubicle in the interest of equality. You can bloody well take your time in there too, none of this splash and dash malarkey just because there's a cis woman outside who really couldn't be expected to use a urinal even if it existed. She doesn't need your faux chivalry "oh I won't be long", strong women have strong bladders!

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

You're making this up.

Its not 1975. Just give up, thanks.

(other option is that your friend has actually never had sex and hasn't got the slightest clue, but I still suspect you're making it up)

Why would they need them in 1975 & not now?
That's what he told me.
Sure how would I know? I'm a girl!

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

Plenty of gay bars have unisex toilets with a urinal room, for those that piss standing up. Works.

I dont care what gay bars do. I am happy with how things are and dont want change. I am pretty sure 90% of people are happy with how things are, its the small minority looking for change.

Honest question what is the freaking need for unisex bathrooms? Why? It works how it is at the moment, so why change it?

Special Circumstances

mzungu wrote: »

When it makes good business sense, but not before then. Although, it may never make good business sense.

Good business sense does not excuse discrimination on grounds of race,sex, gender etc.

Not having the odd ad with a menstruating man as the central character is basically telling all the menstruating men out there that they don't exist. Odd as in occasional obviously, because there's nothing odd about menstruating.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I dont care what gay bars do. I am happy with how things are and dont want change. I am pretty sure 90% of people are happy with how things are, its the small minority looking for change.

Honest question what is the freaking need for unisex bathrooms? Why? It works how it is at the moment, so why change it?

Because it's easier for all types of premises not to have 2 big areas given over to separate toilets?
We all share at home & plenty of smaller places only have one toilet.
What's the difference?
Would you not pee in the same toilet that someone of the opposite sex pees in??

L1011

bubblypop wrote: »

Why would they need them in 1975 & not now?
That's what he told me.
Sure how would I know? I'm a girl!

Because "hyuck, hyuck, teh gays bleed from sex, hyuck" is rather 1975.

He's a (scared) virgin and lying, in that case.

mzungu

Honestly why all of a sudden in the past year has this toilet sh!te become such a big issue?

No idea.

Things are grand as they are.

What is wrong with the current setup that needs changing?

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

Because "hyuck, hyuck, teh gays bleed from sex, hyuck" is rather 1975.

He's a (scared) virgin and lying, in that case.

No, he wasn't talking about blood

bubblypop

bubblypop wrote: »

Because it's easier for all types of premises not to have 2 big areas given over to separate toilets?
We all share at home & plenty of smaller places only have one toilet.
What's the difference?
Would you hit pee in the same toilet that someone of the opposite sex pees in??

There is a big difference between at home that you share with family and a public bathroom that you are sharing with strangers. Majority of people I hear complaining about this are SJWs. Seriously its not a big deal, it has always been seperate bathroom for men/women, there is no need to change this now.

L1011

bubblypop wrote: »

No, he wasn't talking about blood

Tampons don't adsorb anything else*; and anyway - nothing else comes out either

Scared, lying virgin. Time to get him laid.

*unless he has a magic, water producing arse

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There is a big difference between at home that you share with family and a public bathroom that you are sharing with strangers. Majority of people I hear complaining about this are SJWs. Seriously its not a big deal, it has always been seperate bathroom for men/women, there is no need to change this now.

But I have been in a lot of smaller cafes, restaurants, petrol stations etc where there's only one toilet.
It hasnt been a problem, I don't see the big deal?

mzungu

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Good business sense does not excuse discrimination on grounds of race,sex, gender etc.

Not having the odd ad with a menstruating man as the central character is basically telling all the menstruating men out there that they don't exist. Odd as in occasional obviously, because there's nothing odd about menstruating.

If this is to take off (thats a big if) it will need some celeb power behind it. While good business sense does not excuse discrimination, it also couldn't give a flying toss unless the moolah comes a rollin' in the door.

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

Tampons don't adsorb anything else*; and anyway - nothing else comes out either

Scared, lying virgin. Time to get him laid.

*unless he has a magic, water producing arse

Will I tell him you're offering??!!

wakka12

A tad ridiculous I must admit. But if it makes a number of pre op trans men feel better in male bathrooms then sure what harm. its not really having the biggest impact on us is it, an extra row on the condomn and gum machine

bubblypop

bubblypop wrote: »

But I have been in a lot of smaller cafes, restaurants, petrol stations etc where there's only one toilet.
It hasnt been a problem, I don't see the big deal?

I mean in really small places where the bathroom is rarely used then unisex would be ok but busy pubs/clubs then there should be male/female toilets.

L1011

bubblypop wrote: »

Will I tell him you're offering??!!

Only if I can give him some lectures on reality first. And he's my type.

Teyla Emmagan

I wouldn't like to see unisex loos in work. Can't imagine the horror of having some fella doing a big long poo in the cubicle beside me.

In a smaller place I would always rather see a dedicated ladies rather than a shared loo as well.

Change is bad, bad I tell you.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I mean in really small places where the bathroom is rarely used then unisex would be ok but busy pubs/clubs then there should be male/female toilets.

But why though?
I mean, what difference does it make? Not much to the queues of women I see in clubs going into the men's jacks!
Why would it matter?
We all pee, we all poop!