FFS Now Thinx have gone woke

Oh god! I’m incensed.

I have also been considering buying Thinx but I’m certainly not doing that now !!!

People who menstruate indeed. The word is women!

Another myth that is commonly perpetuated by feminists who oppose trans rights is that biological sex cannot be argued with, even if you respect gender identity. You’re either born with XX or XY chromosomes and that’s that. However, multiple studies have proven that sex is far more complex than just a binary.

Where is the fucking third gamete, you useless idiots?

"Another myth that is commonly perpetuated by feminists who oppose trans rights is that biological sex cannot be argued with, even if you respect gender identity. You’re either born with XX or XY chromosomes and that’s that. However, multiple studies have proven that sex is far more complex than just a binary.

Hiding bigotry behind the mask of “science” is not unique to our history."

Anyone get the impression that a TRA has been writing this utter drivel?

Yep bleeder is an insult where I’m from too😂 very poor choice of words there.

'Physiological pants' are the eBay unbranded knockoffs.

Can’t find ref to bleeder?

Bleeders. BLEEDERS!!!!

FUCK'S SAKE, COULD THEY BE MORE OFFENSIVE IF THEY TRIED?

Sorry for shouting, but...

Fuck's sake.

That's all I've got on this one.

Thinx has always been a very woke brand and I don’t think they care about complaints. I highlighted the language issue to them months ago ( I think the term they used was ‘menstruators’, only a step away from incubators) and I would never ever buy from a brand that treats women so appallingly. They can have the trans men market as those are the only customers worthy of their attention. Vote with your money people!

I won’t be buying. Women are their customers.
How is that not obvious to them?
Why can’t they celebrate that?
Women have periods.
All their marketing is around their claim to be feminists

They wanted to call period pants boy shorts??? 😵

There was a thread about them recently; they came up with "boy shorts" for trans men/ non binary types. like, women never like to wear shorts...?

They're so woke they meet themselves coming backwards.

Bleeders that is so ridiculous it actually makes me laugh.

They've got a bleeding nerve.

If someone who isn’t a woman has blood gushing out of them for a week then need a Doctor not some knickers.

From Gorgon's link:

"“Separate but equal” bathrooms were only introduced in the late 19th century to reinforce the idea that women, the ~inherently weaker~ sex, needed a special place to themselves for safety. This ideology continues today, with the harmful argument that micromanaging where trans people pee “protects” women. In reality, trans people need the most protection in public spaces."

FFS.

I have no words. Or at least no words that wouldn't get me deleted. So incredibly ahistorical it makes one despair.

Thinx was also the brand where the (female) chief exec was accused of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment by some of her staff. That put me off them:

www.thecut.com/2017/03/thinx-employee-accuses-miki-agrawal-of-sexual-harassment.html

If they’re so concerned why can’t they just write more creatively so that the terms aren’t needed at all? They’ve done this very deliberately - it would be very possible to write the copy for a site like this without using women or the alternative terms at all.

I don't really understand why they tie themselves up in knots about inadvertently misgendering potential customers. Surely the number of transmen theoretically upset about having to buy products for women is dwarfed by the volume of women put off by being referred to as bleeders. Much safer to market them as period pants and leave the customer to decide whether or not they want them. Although I suppose it has got people talking about them...

I can just about accept people with periods but bleeders is just horrid. For one I'm not actually bleeding and just in general it sounds a bit derogatory. It reminds me of the term 'breeders' from back in the day.

This really fucks me off. My periods have ruined my life. I have endometriosis and adenomyosis. I can’t identify out of them. I’ve lost three jobs directly due to my horrific periods, and the pain in between them.

And Americans are ignorant to basic human biology?!

You said 'uneducated' though op.

Well, that's made up my mind about trying those out! Let me know how you get on with WUKA