Do you support “trans” or are you a monster? New Good Law Project billboard campaign.

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The reliably foolish Good Law Project have commissioned a new outdoor campaign, coming to a street near you.

https://monster.goodlawproject.org/

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I sometimes faint when I stand up. I'd rather be overheard on the loo than be behind a closed locked full-height door when I black out so that no one hears me crack my head on the bowl as a fall or sees my collapsed body on the floor under the door gap. Likewise, I'd rather be overheard throwing up than die choking on my own vomit behind a closed full-height door because no one could see me collapsed on the floor.

What some women prefer and what is the safest option aren't the same thing.

Once, I dreamed I ate my pillow and woke up and my giant marshmallow was gone.

I take it Mumsnet has a genius solution to folding fitted sheets?

I don't think there is one.

1. My home: my risk decisions, up to me to get a panic system installed if I think my health merits it. Public spaces: risk decisions that keep the most people safe in an environment where a panic system is likely to be set off maliciously by yobbos.
2. If I don't check in online for my job, my colleagues notice. If I don't reply to my mum's texts, she notices. If the milk isn't taken off the step, the milkman, postie, and neighbours all notice. If a public toilet with a full-height door is locked for a long time and knocking doesn't get an answer, people assume that the bolt has slipped, it's out-of-order and has been locked from the outside by the cleaner, or it's used as a cleaners' cupboard.

An elderly relative recently got stuck in an enclosed cubicle and there was music playing in the communal hand washing area so it took a while for someone to hear her cries for help. If she’d collapsed I hate to think how long she’d have been there.

Where was that photo taken?

Also, most people who die outside of the home do so unexpectedly because of a sudden onset problem that could potentially be reversed. These people were otherwise healthy, at least healthy enough to be going out.

A fair proportion of people who die at home are expected to die soon. They have end-stage something, whether it be cancer, liver failure, dementia, or something else. So trying to use most deaths being at home as an argument against toilet door gaps is really disingenuous.

I don't like the term "saving a life". What toilet door gaps and paramedics do is prevent premature deaths.

It’s a problem with accessible toilets too. I make a point of unravelling the pull cord as sometimes people tie it up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjvnkzgr1no

No but I store bedding sets in a pillowcase so when I need to change bedding I can just pick that up and everything else is inside ready to go.

Not sure. But likely to have been connected to the Durham Miners Gala which was recent.

Thank you for all your information. It wasn’t something I was aware of but I’ll look out for tied up alarm cords in future. That BBC article does make you realise how difficult it can be for people just to go to the toilet!

I'm late to this thread, having firstly waded through all of the Tempest threads and "Heather" Herbert too! Wow, the rollercoaster is really speeding up, isn't it?! As always, the tangents are fun, fascinating and downright useful - using the bannisters for duvet changing is inspirational!! Btw, the first person I saw who demonstrated the inside out method was Melinda Messenger on Big Brother - thank you, Melinda, you improved my whole life!!

As an uncontrolled epileptic (I’m a NC but FWR regular ) open base cubicles in a single sex communal area are a literal life saver. I also have physical disabilities but I prefer women’s cubicles if possible as I know if I have a seizure, it’ll be seen/heard. It’s just five minutes until you can go into status epilepticus (can be fatal) People with my condition, we have a 1 in 150 chance of dying every year (sorry I’ve worded that wrong, ironically I have concussion and my brain is slow! Not from a sink this time but goodness, sinks are hard! Another reason I don’t like sealed units with the sink in. So I don’t give two fucks if people can hear usual toilet functions, the choice of avoiding any perceived “shame” (which I think is ridiculous anyway) or dying?

Another reason why men should not be allowed into women’s spaces, after all seizure I am usually unconscious and/or very confused, and extremely vulnerable. Hospitals are also places that are dangerous and I’ve posted about my experiences before.

Anyway, thank you all for this thread which has cheered me up muchly! I also want to identify as a monster, and to thr TRAs no doubt I am! Again, no fucks given.

To rescue someone in a toilet in time you need 3 things.

1. to know the person has collapsed asap
2. to be able to get to them
3. to be able to access medical help like a defibrillator

It’s in regulations that toilets have to be openable from the outside and that the door has to open outwards or be able to be lifted off precisely because people collapse against the door (it says that). All schools and most public places have access to a defibrillator.

It sometimes takes days to realise people have collapsed in toilets. If 1 is impossible, 2 and 3 can’t happen in time.

Gaps under the door used to be pretty ubiquitous in single sex toilets. I hoping they will be again.

I had some duvet covers with those slits in the top years ago, Ikea li think. I won’t be going coverless, I love my William Morris and Liberty duvet covers too much

I take it Mumsnet has a genius solution to folding fitted sheets?

There is! And someone, somewhere will know how to do it. I used to know someone, my cousin's sister-in-law, who knew how to fold fitted sheets as though they were giant squares of perfectly flat paper.

...I never had occasion to ask her to show me how... sorry. 😕

Just stuff it in the cupboard. Works for me.

Employing staff to deal with that sort of thing for you, while you recline with a Tunnocks Tea Cake (which I saw discounted in the farm
shop today!)

I think she had a lot of time on her hands...

With a fitted sheet I get a child to grab the corners (not the gusset edges) and we flop the gusset skirt bit from 4 sides into the middle. It is then a rectangle that can easily be folded by a series of meeting together one person grabbing all corners then do a 90degree sheet reset. We normally do a Bridgertonesque step dance to this.

And that must be my most boring post ever (which is saying something).

The most exciting bit it is I rarely iron and have never ironed bedlinen.

Yes!

Where people go wrong is storing clean sheets.

Store them dirty in the washing basket. Don't wash them until you are about to change them. Then wash 'em, dry 'em, take the old ones off and bundle them into the basket, put the new clean ones on never having had to sully yourself with folding the sneaky bastards at all.

Brought to you by Flirts, a total slattern :)

This may resemble what I do with fitted sheets, I couldn't possibly comment...

The most exciting bit it is I rarely iron and have never ironed bedlinen

Hurray! (and thanks for the fitted sheet tip. Now, to find a child...)

Also i don't even own an iron, so sorry, Flirts, I win the slattern trophy.