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

I genuinely confused why this is an issue? Maybe I need to educate myself! Why is it an issue? (No malice just interested

it is an issue because language matters. The way language is used shapes the way we think about the world.

Effectively forbidding or re-configuring language that is used to describe women, purely to reflect the purposes, feelings and intentions of another group - is an act of colonisation. It suggests that female integrity is of less value, and that women must always have to make room for the definitions of others.

It is profoundly oppressive. in fact the whole TRA agenda is an act of colonisation.

Interestingly though I can't find a UK twitted page but their is a tena man twitter page and a tena USA twitrer page which mentions women in the occasional retweet of someone else.

I'll try and find a UK one see how it compares

I have just looked on their website too and lady / women are mentioned all over it. Their products are divided into women, men, family carers, children. Of all the brands out there erasing women, I am not convinced this is one of them.

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Its just another incident in a very long line.

Always removing the Venus symbol.

Articles about period poverty not mentioning the word women or girls once.

Action aid just a day or 2 ago announcing there is no such thing as a biologically female body

Constant references to cervix havers or menstruatorsor people who have periods.

The word women not appearing in cervical cancer literature while prostate cancer mentions man/men repeatedly

I genuinely confused why this is an issue? Maybe I need to educate myself! Why is it an issue? (No malice just interested)

I'm in two minds here.

Their Facebook account is Tena Women. The cover photo is a black mature lady.

Their website clearly talks about women and ladies.

From a quick look 50% of facebook marketplace tena products for sale have the word lady on the front of the packaging in big letters.

I think their subtle rebrand to tena instead of tena lady was before TRAs started demanding that women's products remove the word women from their packaging, and is in line with what brands tend to do when they become well known household names.

I get that removal of the word women from products is a thing, and that it's a problem, but I don't think that Tena is a brand to get worried about.

Well man/men are in some words associated with women

Never mind associated with. Men are demanding the word women for themselves and if they can't have it then they are making sure no one can.

They want to make sure they are included within everything hence why they remove the word women from everything. Its to remind us even our name is only a courtesy that can be revoked whenever men want

Well man/men are in some words associated with women

WoMAN
WoMEN
MENopause
MENstration

Its rule number 8 isn't it?

Men are whoever they say they are and women are whatever men say they are.

Oh ffs does it matter. Tena lady will always be tena lady. Even if they dont put the lady bit on the packaging.

Well yes they do make Tena for men, it not only women with incontinence.

Not the point. The point is that you can have things for men's health without censure, not so for women's health.

Ahh, a misread, and this is me on a smart day

Well yes they do make Tena for men, it not only women with incontinence.

I was really fed up this morning with erosion of us but now it's even worse - oh shit.

At least I'm post menopause so don't have to look. Will they be re-naming Tena Lady? Ideas on a postcard please