I have 'default male' peaked.

[WarriorN]

Brilliant!

*I genuinely may never recover from 3 men deciding women needed pink gloves to remove their tampons (clearly never having bothered to speak to a woman in their entire lives) AND THEN MADE IT TOO BIG FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERY WOMAN’S HAND EVER.

I have default male peaked.*

newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/issues/invisible-women-period-gloves-for-men-557749

Reading the newsletter, I laughed out loud at the photo of the big pink glove with the tiny hand in it. And I hadn't even considered the point that they're so much more expensive than a box of vinyl gloves (which actually fit).

What woman doesn't know that? You are on the road, have your period and want to dispose of your tampon or pad safely, hygienic and discreetly. In everyday life, there are many situations where women do not want to embarrassment their tampon. In the job and on travel, when there is no hygiene bags available on public toilets, the bin is missing or the hygiene situation is defective. On public toilets where the washbasins are located far from the toilets. For friends who probably do not have a bin liner in the bathroom bin, you are faced with the unsightly choice of leaving their own garbage or risking a clogged toilet. Not to mention the smells and impurities that can arise from germs and bacteria if the bin is not emptied in time. Many women and girls do not want anyone to see their used tampons, nor that someone else has to dispose of them together with the rest of the garbage. Pinky is the solution! A glove that allows you to safely dispose of your used tampon or pad with confidence, hygienic and discreetly. Pinky offers the ideal and stylish solution for the first time: by removing the tampon or bandage, using a pinky, hands remain hygienically clean. At the same time, the tampon or the bandage is safely and discreetly packed. Not only does the glove look modern and aesthetic, it is also odourless and opaque and can be closed with the innovative solution leak-proof. The exceptionally beautiful packaging fits in any handbag. This novel glove ensures a particularly hygienic and discreet disposal of tampons or bandages, especially on the go, but also at home and thus enriches any handbag.

www.amazon.co.uk/Pinky-hygienic-Gloves-Discreet-Disposal/dp/B08187S2MQ?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

@Justhadathought

OMG

Seriously that photo. It looks like a pair of gardening gloves.

Yeah and the way my kids fall out over me putting on the gardening gloves, fucking war zone in the bathroom with those things around.

I've had to buy 3 extra pairs of gardening gloves just for when I garden to keep the peace.

(There's always at least two missing.)

Loved Caroline's newsletter this month.

So we have three men designing and receiving investment for a female products that was made based on the fact that they don't want to take the bins out

The product perpetuates the idea that women are dirty when having their period

No woman asked for this and as Caroline points out we don't leave blood or clots on door handles when changing pads or tampons or period pants in public toilets

There are cheaper ones available as per Caroline's newsletter link should anyone find them necessary

It's all more disposable plastic at a time when we have masks and PRC COVID tests building up in the rubbish and affecting wildlife as per

I'm off to find Pibky pants now - is that how you spell it Brefugee?

The white line on the wrist of the glove looks like it might have a sticky seal- so you could pull the glove off your hand inside out, encasing the used tampon, and seal all it's female nastiness away!

Even before they get to the mistake of making the "Pinky" so impractically huge, there are several points they don't seem to be aware of.
*If someone did want to use gloves to change a tampon, the standard cheap nitrile ones (which fit!) could be rolled around a tampon to seal it perfectly easily. It's standard procedure when taking off a disposable apron after giving personal care to an infectious person.
*Pads come with their own wrappers to wrap the used pad in
*Nappy bags can be bought cheaply and come in convenient packs to keep handy in case you're somewhere without san bins
*Some inventor has already developed a special tampon disposal bag which can be easily opened with one hand, then sealed, and which can be bought in supermarkets

Is it just a prototype or are they actually selling these?

So is the idea they're big enough to double as a bag big enough for a towel (I assume that's what they mean by the weird euphemism 'bandage' .... ffs). But as PP have indicated, if you want a disposable bag then nappy bags or dog poo bags are cheap ... you could easily stick your hand in, remove item then invert, just like you do with a dogshit. Of course in reality it's usually easy enough to grab the edge or the string without ending up looking like Lady Macbeth. And if you do get a bit of blood on a hand... meh, women have seen it before and girls will, don't make out it's dirty or shameful.

How dare we have the intelligence to wrap a bit of toilet roll round the string (if it’s a particularly heavy day) and pull. And how dare our hands be three times smaller than the gloves. Don’t we all know men are much better at this kind of thing??

I assume that's what they mean by the weird euphemism 'bandage' .... ffs

My German is ropey but I believe they call sanitary towels "Damenbinde" which translates as "lady bandage" or "lady strip of material/band".

I don't know whether it's weirder to refer to it as sticking a bandage or a towel down there to be honest. I have a mental image of trying to cram a bath towel down my pants with "sanitary towels"...

@HandInGlove85

I assume that's what they mean by the weird euphemism 'bandage' .... ffs

My German is ropey but I believe they call sanitary towels "Damenbinde" which translates as "lady bandage" or "lady strip of material/band".

I don't know whether it's weirder to refer to it as sticking a bandage or a towel down there to be honest. I have a mental image of trying to cram a bath towel down my pants with "sanitary towels"...

My junior school instructed parents to tell girls about menstruation, so my mother sat me down & told me that ladies produce an egg each month & there's a bit of blood & so they wear a towel.

You can imagine the mental pictures I had of that.

I am going on Dragons Den next month with giant blue gloves for men who want to improve their masturbation hygiene. They can carry them around in their jeans when they are out and about as they are appealing and stylish.

I'm calling them Wanky.

Best. Post. Ever.

Does anyone think this may be to do with the growth of gender neutral/mixed sex toilets? If women can be persuaded to use the Giant Pink Glove then (a) they can't complain that males will see blood on their hands as they go from cubicle to washbasin & (b) there's no need for sanitary bins because women can carry numerous bloody, gloved & sealed items of sanpro around with them all day. Yum.

Talk about making it our problem, instead of just giving us what we need. Our expense, too, as women will be buying GPGs instead of companies & councils providing sanitary bins.

@AgnesNaismith

I am going on Dragons Den next month with giant blue gloves for men who want to improve their masturbation hygiene. They can carry them around in their jeans when they are out and about as they are appealing and stylish.

I'm calling them Wanky.

Best. Post. Ever.

Agreed. The name is inspired. But I think it's missing a trick. An extra (large) finger could be attached laterally to the palm (& used like a condom). It would catch all the ahem, modesty forbids & on turning the glove inside out, a tissue or other small washcloth could be ripped off it for the gentleman to er... tidy himself up. This would then be dropped inside the glove, the glove sealed & the gentleman can then store it in one of the many pockets with which men's clothes are blessed, there to remain all day.

What a time to be alive.

This is the. best. thread.

@ifIwerenotanandroid you've given that too much a lot of thought!

Wait, what??

Is the idea that you wear the glove, then put the tampon, in the bloody glove, into your handbag to dispose of later? Because putting it in the bin might be embarrassing? Ffs.

On a related note, it has always bothered me that women were discouraged from putting tampons down the toilet because they "may end up in rivers or on beaches". This is surely not specific to tampons, and anything that goes down the loo ends up in the same place, yet somehow this is specifically a female problem with our nasty unhygienic tampons, but turds on the beach are just fine??

Displacement activity. I should be making spring rolls.

Hmm.

Oh, are you supposed to put them in the bin? The one that's not emptied, according to the blurb?

I may have got the wrong end of the stick, here.

I'll go & make dinner like a good housewife. I promise I won't even mention my idea for a companion glove to 'Wanky'. Mine was going to be called 'Spanky', for the more adventurous among us. But I won't mention it.

@HandInGlove85

I assume that's what they mean by the weird euphemism 'bandage' .... ffs

My German is ropey but I believe they call sanitary towels "Damenbinde" which translates as "lady bandage" or "lady strip of material/band".

I don't know whether it's weirder to refer to it as sticking a bandage or a towel down there to be honest. I have a mental image of trying to cram a bath towel down my pants with "sanitary towels"...

Ha, yes in Danish pads are "bind" (or can be "menstruationsbind" if you're being very formal). Facemasks are "mundbind."

At the beginning of the pandemic, Google Translate had obviously had few / no examples of "facemask" to train it. When I put news articles through Google Translate in order to quickly check whether there were changes in the rules, 98% of the references to facemasks came out as "sanitary towels" with the remaining 2% being called "mouthpieces" or "bandages." (and for some reason "hand sanitizer" was often translated as "handguns.") It led to some amusing articles!

In old fashioned English they used to be called "sanitary napkins" didn't they? At least those are a bit smaller... although I think that's also where we get the word for babies' nappies for.

@Trixie78

I saw this the other day and didn't know whether to laugh or cry! It's the way they looked so pleased with themselves, they looked just like my toddler who's done a big fat poo (but just missed the toilet) 🤨

tough day and this genuinely made me laugh

Thank-you

tbh the idea isn't that bad since a lot of people use those scented disposable bags for tampons. These have a peel off strip so you can pull out the tampon then roll the glove off roll up the tampon in the glove and throw it away. But the whole thing is preposterous.
There were people saying "yeah, brilliant, so i can go for hikes etc" and all the time the rest of us were saying "i've been hiking for years and never needed this"

What was really irritating, and what the interview with the period pants company (they're called Ooia) showed is that women just don't get listened to even when they are experts. The Ooia women have set up other successful companies, had done a shit tonne of market research etc, but the Lions (the German equivalent of the Dragons Den is The Lions' Cave) dismissed them out of hand, only to later invest in a badly thought out company set up by two ex-soldiers with no experience.

Glad to say German twitter was all over it. And although the personal attacks were awful and not necessary, at least they have stopped selling them.

@InvisibleDragon

Wait, what??

Is the idea that you wear the glove, then put the tampon, in the bloody glove, into your handbag to dispose of later? Because putting it in the bin might be embarrassing? Ffs.

On a related note, it has always bothered me that women were discouraged from putting tampons down the toilet because they "may end up in rivers or on beaches". This is surely not specific to tampons, and anything that goes down the loo ends up in the same place, yet somehow this is specifically a female problem with our nasty unhygienic tampons, but turds on the beach are just fine??

I suppose it gives you the option of putting it in your handbag, or of putting it in the bin in a "dainty" non-smelly manner.

There are screens in the sewers which can be blocked by anything other than toilet paper. Things build up on the screen, then water can't flow through and the screen breaks, and then everything ends up on the beach. So pads, tampons, wet wipes, kitchen roll, cotton buds, condoms, sticking plasters, dental floss, and NAPPIES! They always have nappies as an example and my mind boggles at the thought of someone trying to flush a nappy down the toilet- wouldn't it just block your actual toilet?

There is also a separate issue where all the rainwater from the streets is channelled into the sewers, so in a big rainstorm the system doesn't have the capacity to cope and they just open overflow hatches and let the untreated sewage pour directly into the rivers. It's disgusting and they really need to sort the system out.

But yes, there really needs to be more education to everyone not to put anything other than bodily fluids (or poo) and actual toilet paper down the toilet, as there seem to be significant numbers of people (men included) who think a toilet can be used as a magical bin. Especially now that wet wipes are becoming more popular, and men's public toilets don't have even have sanitary bins to put them in.

Hang on... maybe there is a market for the Pinky! Sell them to men, to contain all their toilet-related waste when out and about!

@Scepticaltank

I am going on Dragons Den next month with giant blue gloves for men who want to improve their masturbation hygiene. They can carry them around in their jeans when they are out and about as they are appealing and stylish.

I'm calling them Wanky.

🤣🤣🤣 I’ll give you 69p for 69%

In the interviews the guys did they said they met in the army. Then at some point they lived in a house share with some women and didn't like that the bathroom bin might smell if the women were disposing of tampons in there. It was all described as "may" and "might" though.

And yes, sanitary towels here in Germany are "Damenbinden" - lady bandages