Man Treating Hemorrhoids in Gas Station Restroom Accidentally Rewrites Stranger’s Understanding of Gender

A man attempting to manage hemorrhoid bleeding inside a gas-station restroom accidentally caused another traveler to lose confidence in his eyesight, his knowledge of human anatomy and his ability to identify the correct bathroom.

The incident, illustrated in a viral RedNote comic by creator 小封要逃离地球, began with three independent problems:

1. the creator’s hemorrhoids were bleeding;
2. he was using a sanitary pad to protect his clothing;
3. the restroom door could not be locked.

Under normal circumstances, any one of these issues could have produced an unpleasant afternoon.

Together, they created a complete narrative system.

Urgent Stranger Opens Door Into Situation Not Covered by Signage

According to the illustrated account, the creator entered a gas-station restroom to replace the sanitary pad he was using for the bleeding.

While he was partially undressed, a man urgently pushed open the defective door.

The stranger expected to see an ordinary male restroom occupant.

Instead, he encountered:

• a visibly masculine person;
• lowered clothing;
• a sanitary pad;
• blood;
• immediate eye contact;
• no explanatory briefing.

The human brain is capable of processing complex information.

It performs less reliably when the bladder has declared an emergency.

Sanitary Pad Overrides All Other Visual Evidence

Commenters concluded that the stranger saw the sanitary pad and immediately stopped evaluating the remaining evidence.

One wrote:

“Did he only look at the obviously masculine face?”

Another answered that once the pad became visible, the stranger probably no longer felt qualified to investigate further.

The object carried such overwhelming symbolic weight that facial features, body shape and the sign outside the restroom temporarily became secondary evidence.

The stranger therefore reached the most socially cautious conclusion available:

He must have entered the women’s room.

Retreat Leads Directly Into Actual Women’s Room

Having determined that he was in the wrong restroom, the stranger fled.

Unfortunately, the restroom he had just left was the men’s room.

His emergency correction therefore sent him into the women’s room next door.

He was promptly driven back out.

Within seconds, the man had:

• entered the correct restroom;
• concluded it was incorrect;
• entered the incorrect restroom;
• received confirmation that it was incorrect;
• returned to a world in which neither door could be trusted.

Commenters imagined him standing between the two entrances, urgently needing a toilet while reconsidering the basic organizational principles of public facilities.

Stranger Briefly Concludes He Has Encountered Mulan

Several commenters compared the creator to Hua Mulan, the legendary woman who disguises herself as a man.

“The stranger thought you were Mulan.”

Another adapted a line from the famous Ballad of Mulan:

“After staring for two minutes, he still could not tell that Mulan was a woman.”

The joke reverses the original situation.

The creator was not a woman disguised as a man.

He was a man whose emergency medical supplies caused another man to invent that explanation because it was easier than understanding the truth.

The stranger may have preferred the Mulan theory.

It required fewer details about hemorrhoids.

Comment Section Introduces “Omega” Explanation

The most popular comment offered a different interpretation:

“The stranger: I have discovered an omega.”

The term refers to the fictional secondary-gender system commonly found in online Omegaverse stories, where male characters may possess reproductive traits not found in ordinary human biology.

The comment received approximately 34,000 likes—nearly as many as the original post.

This suggests that thousands of readers found fictional reproductive world-building more immediately plausible than a man using a sanitary pad for hemorrhoid bleeding.

The creator had not entered an Omegaverse.

The restroom had merely lost its lock.

Illustration Praised for Forensic Accuracy

The post’s rough drawings became a major part of the joke.

“The drawing is far too accurate.”

Commenters praised the creator’s ability to represent the stranger’s shock, the awkward body positions and the moment both men realized that neither possessed a socially acceptable next move.

One commenter concluded that the drawing was so convincing the creator must genuinely understand sanitary-pad placement.

Another replied:

“He is a man, not an idiot.”

This distinction became necessary because the comment section had already questioned nearly every other category involved.

Public Advises More Efficient Hemorrhoid Equipment

Some readers moved beyond the comedy and began offering practical advice.

One suggested replacing the full sanitary pad with a thinner panty liner, arguing that it would be less bulky, less expensive and easier to position.

Others warned that liners might twist inside men’s boxer shorts.

Several debated which direction the adhesive side should face.

A commenter jokingly advised placing the adhesive side upward.

Another again clarified:

“He is a man, not an idiot.”

The discussion therefore evolved into an unofficial product-design consultation for male users managing rectal bleeding.

No manufacturer appeared to accept the market opportunity.

Door-Locking Advice Arrives After Door Confirmed Unusable

Many readers asked why the creator had not locked the restroom.

The answer was simple:

The lock did not work.

Others suggested holding the door shut with one foot.

This raised a secondary engineering issue: many public restroom doors open outward, making them difficult to brace from inside while also replacing a sanitary pad.

The recommended posture would require flexibility, balance and a willingness to create a second illustrated incident.

Another commenter suggested carrying a hair clip that could be used to secure defective locks.

This was praised as useful preparedness for a world in which restroom maintenance cannot be assumed.

Both Participants Declared Victims

Although the creator described the experience as personal humiliation, commenters increasingly viewed the stranger as the greater casualty.

He had entered the restroom in physical distress.

He then received confusing evidence about the occupant, fled into the wrong room and was expelled before resolving his original emergency.

“The stranger will spend the rest of his life recovering from this.”

Another imagined him waking years later and asking:

“No, seriously—what exactly did I see?”

The creator at least understood the situation.

The stranger possessed only fragments.

Internet Volunteers Assume Every Role

As with many viral Chinese comment sections, users began claiming to be participants and objects from the story.

“Fine, I am the stranger. Everyone stop commenting.”

A reply announced:

“I am the sanitary pad.”

Others identified themselves as the restroom door, the women who drove the stranger out or witnesses still attempting to reconstruct events.

This transformed the incident into a community theater production in which every role except dignity had been filled.

Medical Reality Remains Less Funny

The post uses embarrassment and bodily humor, but significant rectal bleeding should not automatically be dismissed as ordinary hemorrhoids.

Several commenters who described serious bleeding said they eventually required medical treatment.

A sanitary pad may protect clothing temporarily, but it does not identify or treat the cause.

Persistent, heavy or recurrent bleeding—especially with pain, weakness, dizziness, dark stools or other symptoms—should be evaluated by a medical professional.

The creator’s comic can be funny while the underlying symptom still deserves attention.

Creator Advised to Accelerate Departure From Earth

The creator’s username roughly means “Xiaofeng Wants to Escape Earth.”

After reading the story, commenters agreed that the departure plan now appeared justified.

“Xiaofeng, when does your plan to leave Earth begin?”

The question was not whether Earth had rejected him.

It was whether enough witnesses remained to make continued residence practical.

The creator apologized to the stranger in the post:

“Sir, I am truly sorry.”

This is appropriate.

The stranger entered a gas-station restroom expecting plumbing.

He left with an unsolved mystery about gender, hygiene products and the reliability of door signs.

The hemorrhoids caused the original problem.

The broken lock expanded it.

The sanitary pad transformed it.

But the final disaster belonged to the stranger, who made one incorrect assumption and was immediately punished by both restrooms.