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(Yahoo)   Problem: Men are embarrassed to carry a diaper bag and change diapers. Solution: Sell an enormous, shiny black rubber diaper bag made out of old tractor tires. That'll help   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Awldun
2006-12-04 2:53:31 PM  
As a 'soon-to-be' dad, i think i'd be more embarrassed that i paid money for that POS.

I'm just gonna use my timbuk2.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-12-04 2:55:47 PM  
$175?!?!?!???

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NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark]
2006-12-04 2:57:45 PM  
Why be ashamed? It proclaims "I spread my seed successfully", or at least "I'm raising the child of my wife's philandering escapades"
 
BadReligion [OhFark]
2006-12-04 3:41:14 PM  
The CraneMeister: $175?!?!?!???

Well, everyone knows that new parents have tons of extra money to spend.
 
AnthraxRipple
2006-12-04 3:58:36 PM  
I use a diaper bag... as my range bag. Why use a bag with GLOCK on the side of it? It's heavy-duty, and no one knows there's guns inside. Huge center section for spent brass. Win-win.
 
moriquendi
2006-12-04 3:59:18 PM  
I tend to think that if you're too embarrassed to carry a diaper bag you're too much of a moron to have children.
 
UberDave [OhFark]
2006-12-04 4:13:15 PM  
Skwidd: What? Changing diapers is a function of fatherhood. Sounds like someone is trying to sell something.


Exactly....I don't have kids but I have no idea why this would be a problem. It's like buying tampons in the grocery store...I don't know why some guys (husbands) are freaked out by this. Of course...if someone were to ask if they were for me, I would have to smack them upside the head.
 
gfunk
2006-12-04 4:49:08 PM  
I'm still not changing poopy diapers.
 
ToxicMunkee
2006-12-04 4:49:37 PM  
Because allowing your child to sit screaming in its own filth is more manly?
 
ccmods
2006-12-04 4:50:06 PM  
UberDave: Exactly....I don't have kids but I have no idea why this would be a problem. It's like buying tampons in the grocery store...I don't know why some guys (husbands) are freaked out by this. Of course...if someone were to ask if they were for me, I would have to smack them upside the head.

It's probably the same guys who get all giddy and embarrassed to pick up a box of trojans on the way home from work.
 
bgrainger
2006-12-04 4:50:07 PM  
No children here (yet)... but when there are I am getting a manly diaper bag. Not that I mind carrying it, but darn it, if I am going to carry it I just might get one that says GLOCK on the side. Imagine the look on the criminals face when he opens it thinking he scored a hand gun or two and he gets a diaper, some crackers and sani wipes....

But seriously what is wrong with getting a manly diaper bag? Not that I like that one or would pay $175 for one....
 
Simetra
2006-12-04 4:50:24 PM  
Been carrying around my daughter and her diaper bag all morning... no problem here.

Of course, my wife had to get the same diaper bag as Angelina Jolie... you'd be suprised how many women ask me about it. *shrug*
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2006-12-04 4:50:49 PM  
I used to just hold Lil'Henry naked over the water fountain at the mall when he looked `pensive' (usually he'd drop a steamer). Observing body language & facial expressions can save money on diapers.
 
Whatsyourangle
2006-12-04 4:50:55 PM  
I'm not embarrassed to carry a diaper bag and change my diapers. I think the onlookers are, though.
 
bakatare
2006-12-04 4:51:21 PM  
ToxicMunkee: Because allowing your child to sit screaming in its own filth is more manly?

Hey, if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for that stinky little noisemaker.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2006-12-04 4:51:38 PM  
That's how SUVs came about. Guys felt like they had no balls buying a minivan. No one ever went broke appealing to guys' insecurities about their sack.
 
litespeed74
2006-12-04 4:51:57 PM  
So Firestone tires are being used now?
 
TalkingBaseball
2006-12-04 4:52:12 PM  
Maybe these guys should just carry the diapers around in their H2s.
 
ga362
2006-12-04 4:52:36 PM  
You mean you're supposed to change diapers?

Wow, just wow!
 
Rigby-Reardon
2006-12-04 4:53:22 PM  
Does it come with a gas mask and a power washer?
 
no pretendo
2006-12-04 4:53:40 PM  
Purely guesswork but I imagine with some guys it's sadly because they are incessantly concious of the opposite sex and having a diaper bag is further confirmation that "you're out of the game". Which should be a good thing, but I'm guessing not for everyone.
 
Abelian Groupie
2006-12-04 4:53:55 PM  
Of course...if someone were to ask if they were for me, I would have to smack them upside the head.

Of course, it wouldn't matter if they were for you because you'd be carrying them around in your BIG MANLY DIAPER BAG, and that's what matters - being big and manly.
 
MadTheologian
2006-12-04 4:53:57 PM  
Thanks a lot guys...I'm going to buy a GLOCK bag for somebody's baby shower.

http://www.topglock.com/catalog/rangegear.htm
 
MisterRPG
2006-12-04 4:54:41 PM  
Nothing says "I'm uber manly!" like being insecure about what total strangers think of you.
 
shaymlss
2006-12-04 4:56:04 PM  
I think diapers and wipes will fit into an ordinary $20 backpack, for those who don't want to carry the fuzzy pink bag with elephants.
 
zez
2006-12-04 4:56:41 PM  
Eddie Bauer makes some decent looking diaper bags.

/Stay at home dad
//Picked out my own damn diaper bag!
 
UberJumper
2006-12-04 4:56:53 PM  
I asked my wife to avoid purchasing a girly diaper bag, but that's about it.

Simple Dark Blue Diaper bag vs Pink Frilly one? Yeah I'll take blue please.

/wife hates minivans, so I don't have to get one. HA
 
Sergent D
2006-12-04 4:57:03 PM  
*sigh* Things like this make me ashamed for by fellow guys. Grow the fark up and stop caring about petty crap like what the diaper bag looks like. It's a safe bet that nobody thinks it is a purse.

Hhowever, our diaper bag is a backpack and it's farking sweet. It's the coolest diaper bag I've ever seen. There are so many zippered sections and it can hold a ton of stuff. Clean, dirty, supplies, toys, snacks, and tons more.
 
Slappy Kincaid
2006-12-04 4:57:05 PM  
sack the fark up, change the diaper, and go about your business. good CHRIST people are dumb
 
JoeCowboy
2006-12-04 4:59:16 PM  
What a load. Everytime one of my kids face got red or they had that concentration look on their faces, ole Dad was done playing with them and they went to either their Mom or grandparent or some total stranger so they could have some quality time too.

JC
 
fernanernie
2006-12-04 4:59:43 PM  
I bought one with the Jeep logo for about $20 never questioned my manliness.
 
Whatsyourangle
2006-12-04 4:59:55 PM  
diaper bag = chick magnet
 
UberJumper
2006-12-04 4:59:59 PM  
Diaper Bags at Babies R Us.

Nice enough ones there to pick from.
 
MrToast
2006-12-04 5:00:42 PM  
Hmm. Why not just let the wife do it again?
 
dogfood
2006-12-04 5:01:07 PM  
How big of a moran do you have to be to "feel emberassed" about carrying a diaper bag?

I used to have to shove a tube up my son's nose to gavage feed him. Then hope he didn't puke all over me.

Now he's 11 and we are in a bitter fight over who can get 5 stars on Bark at the Moon first.

Kids are cool, babies, not so much.
 
pgh9fan
2006-12-04 5:02:04 PM  
If people buy this then more power to the company. What's the big deal about carrying a diaper bag? I did for 2.5 years until my son was potty trained. Even now I sometimes carry it if I think he might need a change of clothes. Hell, you can put just about anything in them and carry it in to wherever you want without security complaining. I still use it when I go to Pittsburgh Pirates games.
 
mmagdalene
2006-12-04 5:02:16 PM  
That bag must weigh at least 50 pounds once you get it loaded up with diapers, wipes, ointment, bags of breast milk, ice, toys, crackers, etc. You'd have to be a retard to try lugging that and a squirming baby around anywhere at the same time.

Props to my DH, who changed our 3 pound baby's teeeny-tiny diapers in the NICU like he'd been doing it all his life. After a few months you learn pretty much all you need to carry along is two boobies, a diaper and a few wipes.
 
Mztlplx
2006-12-04 5:02:35 PM  
Used a $30 North Face backpack for my daughter's diaper bag...lots of room for the diapers and wipes and blankets and a change of clothes, a plastic pocket inside for the dirty clothes, plus lots of pockets outside for bottles, crackers, etc., and loops to hang toys from. Plus it leaves both hands free for dealing with the child...

Manly enough, and much less expensive. With the added goodness of still being able to use the thing after the kid's finally potty-trained.

/Thus spake Single Dad
 
DocNoyes
2006-12-04 5:03:00 PM  
I am a vol. Firefighter and I use my extra firefighter backpack as my daughters diaper bag. It has my fire department logo on it and it looks cool. besides i am a father of a small child that comes with the job
 
caiteach
2006-12-04 5:03:12 PM  
I just used the backpack I have for day hikes. Actually worked pretty well. First time parents buy all kinds of stupid shait. Most usually wise up about a year into the process.
 
dewihafta
2006-12-04 5:04:25 PM  
As a woman, I've never understood the appeal behind cutesy, icky-poo diaper bags covered in pastel baby animals. Whats wrong with just a regular canvas bag or backpack? I swear, once I have kids I will not be resorting to such demeaning ways of shaming my husband.

I'm using a Glock bag.


/Actually, we'll probably end up with one of the free pharmaceutical bags I got from work.
//what better thing to smear with shiat?
 
Trinilos
2006-12-04 5:04:44 PM  
Sergent D just brought up a point I hadn't thought about changing diapers in public.

Where do you put the dirty one?

/gag
//not a dad
 
cpgorski
2006-12-04 5:05:39 PM  
cheers, Rigby-Reardon.

Surely the thing to do to make a guy feel better about something he doesn't like to do is to buy him an expensive designer handbag.

Seriously now. For $175 to make a guy interested, it better have either a two-stroke engine or a 16-bit microcontroller.

peace,

--me
 
Slappy Kincaid
2006-12-04 5:05:39 PM  
Trinilos, you put it in the nearest trashcan. If you believe in Karma, you try and wrap it up in something else so your child's excrement doesn't trigger the fire alarms.
 
hobnail
2006-12-04 5:05:56 PM  
Problem: Men are embarrassed to carry a diaper bag and change diapers. Solution: Sell an enormous, shiny black rubber diaper bag made out of old tractor tires. Man up, nancy. That'll help

Fixed.

/Seriously-- walking around with a cranky kid stinking of shiat is far more embarassing than the damn bag.
 
Tallow'nbits
2006-12-04 5:06:23 PM  
Silly. Everyone knows changing diapers is women's work.
 
jackc126
2006-12-04 5:06:24 PM  
2006-12-04 04:59:55 PM Whatsyourangle

diaper bag = chick magnet

My experience too, even better than walking a puppy.
 
cpgorski
2006-12-04 5:06:58 PM  
(Otherwise, wouldn't a $10-15 military-surplus duffel bag do well enough?)
 
UberJumper
2006-12-04 5:07:21 PM  
Trinilos:

Usually in a plastic bag in the diaper bag, or into a garbage can I imagine.

/pack out what you pack in.
 
gradatim
2006-12-04 5:08:54 PM  
Men are embarrassed to carry a diaper bag and change diapers

You know what I find highly amusing? Those diaper changing stations in mens public restrooms. They're funny because equal rights advocates (mostly women) fought long and hard to get those installed -- but NOBODY EVER USES THEM. LOL

No man who hasn't had his balls ripped off by his wife would be caught dead using one of those. (I'm guessing that they do actually get used -- maybe once every 3-4 months -- but the poor bastard who uses it makes damn sure the bathroom is empty first.)
 
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