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It's still OK to say 'men' on tena products 😡

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Coronacurls · 17/07/2020 09:42

I took this photo in a pharmacy yesterday - I almost laughed at how big the word 'men' was on the packaging, and yet none of the other products dared say they were for women.
The obvious double standard just makes me so angry - the attempted erasure of the word 'woman' is just so obvious here.

It's still OK to say 'men' on tena products 😡
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bettliefsen · 19/07/2020 01:49

@bettliefsen

Sorry I broke the www.bbc.com/news/uk-51167487
Compared Period poverty: Free sanitary products for schools is 'huge step' www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47553449
bettliefsen · 19/07/2020 01:48

Sorry I broke the www.bbc.com/news/uk-51167487

bettliefsen · 19/07/2020 01:47

If women aren't being removed then why does poverty: Free sanitary products for schools is 'huge step' www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47553449 this]] 2019 article on period poverty refer to girls when the 2020 linked to above doesn't.

ShinyFootball · 19/07/2020 01:12

Agree that in general the fact that the words women and girl and female are becoming verboten while man boy male are used without argument highlights the deep double standards and misogyny of the trans movement.

WishICouldThinkOfAGoodName · 18/07/2020 13:42

I’m glad I discovered this board as it’s educated me so much, but in another way that knowledge has made me so angry.

vodkaredbullgirl · 17/07/2020 17:27

What ever, im out of this thread.

roxfox · 17/07/2020 17:23

@vodkaredbullgirl

Oh ffs does it matter. Tena lady will always be tena lady. Even if they dont put the lady bit on the packaging.
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SarahTancredi · 17/07/2020 17:09

Aren't incontinence aids tax free? Thankfully in this instance it shouldn't matter.

But yes it sucks we get taxed fir essential items while men shave tax free

frog22 · 17/07/2020 17:07

I'm glad they don't put Woman on the packaging. It's alway a way to charge more for the same products as men use. Anyone who has tried to buy a razor will understand.

SarahTancredi · 17/07/2020 17:04

If there is an evil plan they are obviously quite selective on the products that they apply it to

Possibly they saw how it went for always .. i doubt they wanna give up the extra custom after the boycott.

ivfbabymomma1 · 17/07/2020 17:01

Thank you to everyone who took the time to explain. Very interesting!!

Bashingboris · 17/07/2020 16:44

There is a recent thread that gives lots of praise to Bodyform. Tena and Bodyform are both brands of the same company, Essity. If there is an evil plan they are obviously quite selective on the products that they apply it to.

SerenityNowwwww · 17/07/2020 15:56

We can’t say women but we can say man. Doesn’t that just seem very sinister and weird?

ChurchOfWokeApostate · 17/07/2020 15:47

Oh ffs does it matter. Tena lady will always be tena lady. Even if they dont put the lady bit on the packaging
Does it matter that the word women is being infiltrated?
Does it matter that any man who fancies can call himself a woman?
Does it matter that if any man can call himself a woman, the word becomes meaningless. Meaningless in law.

Does it matter that women, instead of being referred to as women, are being referred to as dehumanising terms such as cervix haver, menstruator, birther.
(Didn’t then greens go all out out and call us non-men at one point. Or might have been the Lib Dem’s. I’m losing track.)

Does it matter that the F in female genital mutilation is being stealthily replaced by the word forced?
Does it matter that productions of shows like the vagina monologues are being shut down because of the word vagina?
Does it matter that this is ONLY happening to the word women, and not men? As noted by this tena lady example.
As noted by a search of the body shop website coming up with 0 result la for the word women, and 60 odd results of the word men.
This is another example of an insidious campaign, which will only be sated by total capitulation.

Yes, FFS, it does matter.

SerenityNowwwww · 17/07/2020 13:50

But surely Trans women can also need male-body-shape facilitating incontinence pads? In exactly the same way that tampons are being targeted for being incorrect in saying that they are for women/girls?

And why are they always places alongside tampons anyway - why not next to shaving cream ad condoms?

DidoLamenting · 17/07/2020 13:44

@SarahTancredi

because its only men who get alto acknowledge their sex.

Women are only a feeling inside a man's head

This is about pleasing men at all costs regardless of harm done to women in the process

It really isn't. It's about making clear which Tena products are for men
SarahTancredi · 17/07/2020 12:29

Yo be fair that seems tobhe reasonably common. Websites will say one thing then the twitter feed will say another

Although has to be said in some cases there appears to have been a little bit of a back peddling on that. Especially when a scandal of sorts has been pointed out and they suddenly twig that alienating women isn't such a good idea...

Disturbingly alot of menstrual cup companies are the biggest culprits now for not mentioning women/girls. Kinda ironic since many also do a buy one give one deal and donate them to schoolgirls in Africa. Which is great but at the same time you wanna hit your head on the desk...

CarlottaValdez · 17/07/2020 11:49

Tena’s website and products do say women and ladies though. I’m not denying the issue, I’m saying the target here is wrong.

SarahTancredi · 17/07/2020 11:44

because its only men who get alto acknowledge their sex.

Women are only a feeling inside a man's head

This is about pleasing men at all costs regardless of harm done to women in the process

CarlottaValdez · 17/07/2020 11:43

I just don’t understand why this isn’t “well done Tena for recognising biology matters and correctly describing those with penises as men”.

BertiesLanding · 17/07/2020 11:43

@vodkaredbullgirl

Oh ffs does it matter. Tena lady will always be tena lady. Even if they dont put the lady bit on the packaging.
It really matters to me, yes.
PheasantPlucker1 · 17/07/2020 11:33

Its called multi tasking.

We can care about more than one thing at once. Feminists are just fabulous like that.

SarahTancredi · 17/07/2020 11:32

Seriously we have a pandemic going on with an incompetent government "dealing" with it and you're upsetabout this

Rates of smear tests are at an all time low and the word women is being left out of literature and any women who registers as male at the drs will not receive a letter reminding them to be screened. Any man however registered as female will receive a reminder

This will cost lives too so yes its an issue and yes women are amgry

Eslteacher06 · 17/07/2020 11:29

Seriously we have a pandemic going on with an incompetent government "dealing" with it and you're upset about this?

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Iiketoreadeveryday · 17/07/2020 11:26

@GertrudeKerfuffle

Maybe you could start a campaign against their transphobic packaging OP? Perhaps they could rename them as 'Tena for Penis-Havers' or some such.
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