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Period pants for Wimpund

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PeriodPants · 13/01/2022 23:12

Wise vipers of Mumsnet, forgive the relatively trivial topic but I am in the market for a stack of period pants and would very much like to give my custom to a company that unashamedly promotes its products to Wumben/Wimpund/Woomud.

I've had a look at some well known brands' websites using a quick ctrl+f for "wom" and, astonishingly, am coming up pretty empty.

I had enough trouble finding a tampon brand to switch to so any advice on particular brands of pants would be much appreciated.

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JoodyBlue · 14/01/2022 13:38

I think any marketing types out there would do great to take and run with the Wumben/Wimpund/Woomud tags for branding purposes. Wonder who will do it Grin

KittenKong · 14/01/2022 13:37

I was reading one site who gave money to woman’s charities.

One was for donating bras and sanpro to homeless ‘women and folx’. I did think that if I was homeless, braless and on my period the last thing I’d be worrying about is my self description…

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 14/01/2022 13:09

There was a thread about modibodi saying "people who menstruate"/"menstruator" on their social media marketing, but it got deleted.

NitroNine · 14/01/2022 12:38

The ModiBodi website itself is firmly about women rather than “people who menstruate” - the main section of the site is labelled as “women’s”; & the RED tweens & teens section mentions women (eg ^Did you know the average woman will use
11,000 disposable leak management products in her lifetime?^) too. At least, the UK version of the site does - maybe they fear The Savage Dinosaurs Of TERF Island?

Chersfrozenface · 14/01/2022 11:39

I've had a quick look at a couple of papers and they say that administration of male hormones causes cessation of the menstrual cycle in most, but not all, transmen (or whatever the current permitted term is). How long this takes (up to a year when it does) and whether it occurs at all, doesn't corelate with dose.

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PeriodPants · 14/01/2022 11:06

Georgeskitchen My understanding is that hormones (nor surgery, nor any kind of medical intervention) are not in any way required for someone to be considered a transman (or transwoman).

It is now purely a matter of how one identifies based on a subjective, undefined and indefinable sense of what "being a man" (or "being a woman") feels like.

I stand to be corrected.

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YetAnotherSpartacus · 14/01/2022 11:00

For some reason this thread has made me think of Mrs Slocombe - I wonder what she would have thought about this whole silliness?

Georgeskitchen · 14/01/2022 10:59

I was under the impression that trans men are on testosterone which stops periods. Correct me if I'm wrong

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PeriodPants · 14/01/2022 10:57

PurgatoryOfPotholes Yes, rationally I know and accept that it's a very reasonable, and I'm sure genuinely inclusive, line for companies to take while so many are experiencing distress over their female bodies in one way or another.

I suppose I was just looking for a unicorn of a company that's looked at the whole thing and said, "nah, we'll keep our marketing as it was, cheers"!

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PeriodPants · 14/01/2022 10:49

Thanks for the Sainsbury's suggestions. I bought some ordinary knickers from there recently after M&S went downhill (in terms of quality of pants and the other) and I've been really impressed with them so may give those a go!

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PeriodPants · 14/01/2022 10:46

GetRael was looking very promising with shocking talk like, "most women will have their periods for forty years of their lives", and, "Almost 20 percent of women between the ages of 18-50 experience vaginal dryness".

However, I just looked at one of their blog posts which informed me that, "many menstruators will openly talk about physical symptoms".

"Menstruators". Angry

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ArabellaScott · 14/01/2022 10:29

Good timing, OP. In the market for more period pants. Sainsbury's! Fab, will give them a bash. The MS ones were less comfy than Modibodi, fwiw.

WarmForDecember · 14/01/2022 09:55

I've got Sainsbury's ones and also ones from Amazon (Innersy? Something like that) that are referred to as womens/girls.

The world is a very weird place that this is even an issue.

PurgatoryOfPotholes · 14/01/2022 09:49

@FortySeven

I tried looking into this and ended up buying from a company who refer to “women, girls, trans-men”… at least we get a mention!
Which one was that? I'm avoiding Modibodi because of a "menstruator" incident but I'd be happy with a brand that pitched itself at "women, girls and transmen".

My personal line. Doesn't have to be anyone else's.

ErrolTheDragon · 14/01/2022 09:49

‘Woman’s period pants’ was the description I think.

Mind you, that is a bit of an oxymoron!

Sainsbury do stock them

tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/c/brands/love-luna

Barbarantia · 14/01/2022 09:44

Sainsbury's, if you are watching, I need new period pants. Hurry up already.

MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 14/01/2022 09:35

I went with Wuka in the end, no problems but make sure you order size according to your measurements, not dress size. I went with dress size and they were too small. Thankfully wuka exchanged them. Also the higher the absorbency the tighter the pants feel.

KittenKong · 14/01/2022 07:46

I get my tampons from here - www.getrael.com. They don’t seem to mess about and do pants.

KittenKong · 14/01/2022 07:40

I’ll check what mine are. They are some Chinese brand - they don’t mess about with ‘oooo these items are, ummm for persons… alto be used at a particular time of the month… when, um, persons that need them, use them’.

‘Woman’s period pants’ was the description I think.

It’s like playing the word game…

LizziesTwin · 14/01/2022 07:31

Luxury Moon is a woman owned business which sells period pants, menstrual cups, reusable pads etc.

RepentMotherfucker · 14/01/2022 07:29

Do Tu do period pants though?

Malkukupad · 14/01/2022 07:22

ladies knickers Love it!

donquixotedelamancha · 14/01/2022 07:19

I’m fairly sure the primark ones are in the ‘women’s underwear’ section?

Primark studiously avoid mentioning women in any period pants marketing.

Tu from Sainsbury's prominently advertise that their underwear is designed by women, for women and it's described as 'ladies knickers'. They seem quite a stark contrast to every other brand.

leeloo1 · 14/01/2022 06:43

I’m fairly sure the primark ones are in the ‘women’s underwear’ section?

foxgoosefinch · 14/01/2022 04:19

Yeah Modibodi went woke, sadly :(

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