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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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timeisnotaline · 14/01/2022 03:47

I’m not sure about modibodi. They are pretty careful not to mention women, ive just scrolled through their insta to see if they had changed and nope. There is modibodi_men account but on the main modibodi page mostly only mention ‘women’ when it’s on a quote from customers. There are a couple in the last few months which might be an improvement but also plenty of carefully neutral language and ‘people who menstruate’ …. I messaged them about this sometime last year and here was their founders response. They do do some great things though.

Period pants for Wimpund
Feelingoood · 14/01/2022 00:47

Omg, I had no idea. This is just gross. what ON EARTH are these companies doing?

malanimo · 13/01/2022 23:41

@WhiteCatmas

Modibodi?
Oh yes they look good. The founder describes herself as 'a social advocate for women’s health issues and rights'
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PeriodPants · 13/01/2022 23:37

Repentant Thanks, I'll keep them in mind. At this point I'm annoyed enough to reject even that and opt for active woman-centring if such a thing can be found!

FortySeven That is very reasonable. If I hadn't been pushed to the edge of my sanity by so much nonsense up to this point, I'd probably think that was a fair enough compromise. I would like to see if I can infer a sneakily GC copyeditor at any of these companies to support, though!

WhiteCatmas Modibodi does look promising! Thanks

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malanimo · 13/01/2022 23:36

I just bought some from Wuka. Their website says the pants are for women, girls and trans men. They have good photos of real women (different shapes, ages, skin colours) and some of the blog posts talk specifically about women

WhiteCatmas · 13/01/2022 23:27

Modibodi?

FortySeven · 13/01/2022 23:23

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!

RepentMotherfucker · 13/01/2022 23:16

Uniqlo? Mine are from there and are good.

I think they have always been a bit unisex but not in a woke boundary pushing gender-upholding way more in a genuinely sexless way?

Happy to be corrected if they are raving insanios like Lush...

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