Sanitary products for people who menstruate

I don't think it needs it. What I find absurd is telling people that these products are for "people who menstruate"; that is as if a packet of sticking plasters felt obliged to tell us they are for "people who are bleeding" or bottled water carried the proud claim "for people who drink water".

(where did that "called" come from, I thought I hadn't typed it)

DidoLamenting
Did the packaging ever say sanitary products were for women? I don't think so.

Wellllll.... On the website they are all listed under called "Feminine Hygiene", which is probably a bit sex-specific. Or used to be.

Thing is a lot of this type of stuff gets blamed on 'feminists'.

Which is unhelpful to say the least.

They are soooooo desperate to equate gender critical women with looney right wing fascists.
When this nonsense finally comes unstuck it's going be interesting to watch the backpedaling.

Call them tampons and sanitary towels and don't bother to say which of the umpty-zillion gender-identities they are for, and the problem goes away. Nobody who doesn't need them is going to buy them except for someone who needs them, in any case

Did the packaging ever say sanitary products were for women? I don't think so.

Just saw an ad for what used to be called Tena Lady - not just Tena and no sex mentioned Even through the male and female versions would need to be different surely (and Tena Men is on the shelf in the supermarket near me).

Is this new?

It is a load of fucking shit

I can’t wait for my periods to stop

Oh come off it Quagaars.

If they were genuinely concerned about the feelings of people who struggle with the reality of being female, pointing out just how many periods they're likely to have and how many tampons and towels they're likely to get though maybe isn't exactly helpful.

Call them tampons and sanitary towels and don't bother to say which of the umpty-zillion gender-identities they are for, and the problem goes away. Nobody who doesn't need them is going to buy them except for someone who needs them, in any case.

Or not more than once. It's money wasted if you have no use for them.

Boots seem to have managed this with their non-sex-labelled tampons, and so have Tampax though the latter are on dodgy ground with their claim "Tampax Compak tampons have been gynaecologically tested" it is probably triggering in some way or other for someone somewhere.

I read someone today say that "people who menstruate" is more respectful because saying "women" is disrespectful to women who no longer have periods. And "transphobes" don't think women who no longer have periods are women.
As a woman who no longer as periods, that's a load of fucking shit. Just in case you were wondering.

I agree Milly, this particular action helps nobody.

It just pretends to, which I think is worse. If I were trans I would be insulted by this packaging wording change.

Once again females are given a token gesture to shut them up without anything materially beneficial being done to help.

Let's help them out a bit.

I don’t think this helps anyone so no, I don’t be emotionally manipulated into accepting regressive things like this.

@Quaagars

No I didn't miss it, I just didn't feel the need to answer or comment on it as I thought "yeah, good point" Then again I'm not trans, so I don't presume to know what it feels like to go buy them every month.

I would presume that they’d prefer to go to men’s aisle

I care about women and girls.

In this instance I don't want to focus on what appears to be the male TRA agenda of erasing women. Even if that triggered the Superdrug change.

There are teenagers who would call themselves afab and queer/trans/non-binary who find it distressing to buy sanitary products in a shop. I would be fully behind changes to how sanitary products are marketed and presented to make those females feel more comfortable. I happen to think those changes would likely have wider benefits.

I would rather have a go at Superdrug for pretending to help while actually doing fuck all to help (and pissing off a load of other females). This does not have to be a TRA vs GC issue.

Let's help the girls who have body issues and being female issues. Let's not just shout at them not to be embarrassed it is perfectly natural. That kind of older woman advice never helped us when we were embarrassed as teenagers did it?

You can't expect females aged say 14-24 to give no fucks at all about what people think in the same way as females aged say 54-64. They are easily mortified. Trans or not. Let's help them out a bit.

Of course it's sexist to say that changing the packaging would mean to a box of chocolates or shoes
Because that's what women like, isn't it. And pink and flowers and giggling and prosecco and never messing their hair up

If I was meaning what you're suggesting, (which I wasn't) - how does this even begin to make sense when we're talking about disguising a box of sanitary products as something so trans men would feel more at ease buying?
"I know! Let's disguise it as something some people think is a Very Womanly Thing, that'll make trans men feel more included!"
Erm......

I wasn't even on about stereotypes, sexist, really not sure why we jumped to there!
Just items we could disguise sanitary products as like somebody had suggested upthread.

Ive no real issue with this at all, as long as Superdrug do the same for shaving products etc

What an incredibly sexist comment

Eh? Literally the first items that popped into my head.
Are chocolates and shoes for females only now or something?
If so, since when?!
OK, if they're too sterotypical of what a woman likes (really wasn't that deep as my teens say) would something "less girly" be more appropriate (whatever the fuck that is)
A bag of spanners?
Something neutral like a food item maybe that's safer?

Nobody's ever stopped DH buying my sanitary products or stopped me to check I was buying sanitary products for me, or am I shopping in the wrong place?

We could simply not say who the tampons are for and just say 'tampons'. That would be lovely and inclusive of anyone with female biology who has a need for menstrual products because your average biological man isn't going to become confused and buy himself 6 packs by accident.
Somehow I doubt that would be considered acceptable as this seems to be part of a bigger picture where the aim is eroding women, not inclusion.

Of course it's sexist to say that changing the packaging would mean to a box of chocolates or shoes.

Because that's what women like, isn't it. And pink and flowers and giggling and prosecco and never messing their hair up.

That comment is incredibly sexist.