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FFS Now Thinx have gone woke

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StringyPotatoes · 12/09/2018 19:53

I have been considering buying some period underwear for a while now and, having seen an advert for them almost every time I open my Facebook app I finally decided to purchase some Thinx pants.

Only I didn't go through with the purchase. Because their website has removed almost all trace of the word "girls" and "women" and replaced them with phrases such as "bleeders" and "people with periods".
I know this has happened relatively recently as I've been on their website fairly frequently, deciding on whether or not to buy from them. I can only imagine that they are doing this slowly.

I will not be buying any Thinx underwear now (I'm looking at WUKA, if anyone's interested) as I do not I identify as a "bleeder" but as a WOMAN.

FFS Now Thinx have gone woke
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Potplant2 · 12/09/2018 20:13

I was about to recommend cheap ones from amazon by intimate portal, which I find work well for me. However, going to some of the product pages shows that they talk abut being for a ‘person’ who menstruates. I do wonder if this is poor English translation as their own company website talks unashamedly about ‘women’, as do other pages. I don’t think they’re woke yet:

www.amazon.co.uk/Intimate-Portal-Incontinence-Period-Knickers/dp/B019TZJCIC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?psc=1&keywords=intimate+portal+period+knickers&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1536779296&sr=8-2-spons

These ones I find comfortable and useful extra back up as they have a waterproof layer.

Others are more like thinx in that they’re actually absorbent and I sometimes use them towards the end of my period, but I find them a bit less comfortable as the band digs in to my swollen tummy at the start of my period:

www.amazon.co.uk/Intimate-Portal-Absorbent-Menstrual-Incontinence/dp/B074M4GVK6?ref=ast_p_ep&tag=mumsnetforum-21

iamawoman · 12/09/2018 20:12

We are just breeders and bleeders now !! How dehumanizing can you get. Hope they go bankrupt

Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 12/09/2018 20:09

They’re marketing period pants! Their only market is women and girls Confused
I’m sure the tiny number of trans men will cope with the adverts being directed at biological women, since that is what their reproductive system makes them.

Wanderabout · 12/09/2018 20:08

Bleeders that is so ridiculous it actually makes me laugh.

fufulina · 12/09/2018 20:08

Will they make special pants for people who ejaculate? Because presumably, on their logic, the word ‘male’ wouldn’t be appropriate for that hypothetical situation. As ‘female’ isn’t appropriate for people who menstruate? Unless I’ve got it all wrong of course Confused.

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StringyPotatoes · 12/09/2018 20:06

Uneducated and ignorant of the connotations of the word bleeder (and to basic human biology). I wasn't making a sweeping generalisation about Americans!

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VickyEadie · 12/09/2018 20:05

I no longer menstruate (post menopause), but I suggest you all write to them and say you were going to buy their products but this appallingly anti-woman language has sent you straight to the mooncup folk.

(Mooncup folk - possible name for a feminist group?!)

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StringyPotatoes · 12/09/2018 20:05

@MindTheMinotaur I haven't tried them yet but WUKA are both cheaper and claim to hold twice as much as Thinx so they get my vote on many counts.

I hadn't even considered the insult side of things. They're originally American so perhaps they are, quite literally, uneducated and ignorant?

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DorothyGarrod · 12/09/2018 20:03

For Fucks Sake

MsBeee · 12/09/2018 20:03

Fuck, fuck fuck right off. how can they do this. Jesus now we can't even call ourself when and girls.

LadybirdsAreBirds · 12/09/2018 20:01

Bleeders??

It's all a bit Chas and Dave

Gertcha Cow Son

GorgonLondon · 12/09/2018 20:00

more of this shite here:
www.shethinx.com/blogs/thinx-piece/trans-men-people-with-periods-not-women

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 12/09/2018 19:58

Oh cross post

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 12/09/2018 19:57

Bleeders?

Well they can fuck right off

Its literally an insult

As in....you shifty little bleeder

HotRocker · 12/09/2018 19:57

Bleeder is an insult where I’m from, as in, get off your arse you lazy bleeder.

MindTheMinotaur · 12/09/2018 19:54

What are WUKA like? Young people with periods, it's a clunky way of putting it.

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