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Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!

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KhaleesiOfChaos · 17/02/2022 22:34

Cheeky Pants are selling period pants for children. Not girls. And using a photo of what very much looks like a couple of boys to me.

My first thought was logically perhaps they're targeting the incontinence / bed-wetter market, but the copy clearly refers to children having periods etc.

No no no no no.

Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!

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Suzyinthesummertime · 18/02/2022 00:33

Hopefully a mistake..

SD1978 · 18/02/2022 00:29

@Savingpeoplehuntingthings - you'll be bloody (excuse the pun) hard pushed to find any brand that hasn't erased all use of female centred language, because we can't support women publicly.

LunaLights · 18/02/2022 00:19

Are “boys” mentioned at all, or just “children”?

TheOrigRights · 18/02/2022 00:16

The pelvic toner says "Secret Whispers - Pelvic Floor Toner for Women" not "for vagina havers"

TheOrigRights · 18/02/2022 00:10

I've just been on the website and went straight to the different sorts of protection menus. The boys pic is under the incontinence section.

The incontinence section has women, men, children and (so far) all the pics I've seen under the period menu show women.

Also, if you go to the 'kits' section, under periods, you can filter for demographic and they only have women.

I would really like to think that they have not gone all woke and fucking ridiculous and that the boy pic on the home page is a mistake.

Georgeskitchen · 17/02/2022 23:41

What does a picture of a couple of 8-ish year old boys have to do with period pants?

Whitefire · 17/02/2022 23:39

If I wasn't even going to bother with trousers I may as well just skip the pants as well and save on the washing.

Halloweenrainbow · 17/02/2022 23:36

There seems to be a number of unusual image choices on this website.

Here's a happy customer seemingly outdoors gardening in her sun hat and incontinence pants!

Whitefire · 17/02/2022 23:34

Absolutely has Children's Period Pants over the picture of the children on the stairs.

I am more annoyed that they are labelled as "gender neutral" no they are unisex. I'm not even sure that is a great selling point, having had a late bed wetter boys and girls need padding in different places.

I remember the days of separate boy and girl nappies.

Lysianthus · 17/02/2022 23:32

@Doubletoilandtrouble

I have two children around 10-11, one has a penis the other one doesn’t…

If any (or both) suddenly start to bleed from their genitalia, should I buy the period pants or get a doctor’s appointment? And how do I know what do do for each one?

I despair too

Whitefire · 17/02/2022 23:26

This is what you get if you click on the demographic filter: Women (1)

kittensinthekitchen · 17/02/2022 23:23

It's on the front page of the website

www.cheekypants.com

About halfway down - that photo with text over it saying "Children period pants"

Witheringtong · 17/02/2022 23:23

I'm on the US site and I get what OP can see. If I click the link I'm taken to a page that says ''It's a fact that children are starting their periods earlier these days. '', all the products are modelled by teenage girls.

www.cheekypants.com/

www.cheekypants.com/children-period-pants.html

ikeepseeingit · 17/02/2022 23:22

Yeah, I can't see that on my laptop either. I suspect it's either bad mobile design or a glitch, not a purposeful ' boys can have periods' thing.

Qwill · 17/02/2022 23:18

It looks like you got a glitch on the website, I can’t find it either. IT issues happen to the best of us!

converseandjeans · 17/02/2022 23:16

Yes boys only show up for incontinence products on laptop. I can't seem to attach screenshot. For the section children it's all girls.

However they should be using the word girls rather than children.

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KhaleesiOfChaos · 17/02/2022 23:14

@converseandjeans I've read about that too, thanks to MN I went down an unpleasant rabbit hole (awkwardly appropriate use of that phrase, sorry!) learning about that fetish.

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KhaleesiOfChaos · 17/02/2022 23:10

Are those of you on desktop seeing the incontinence heading over the boys photos even on the homepage?

Not that it matters that much I suppose as they've genderwashed the entire site!

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Savingpeoplehuntingthings · 17/02/2022 23:05

This is the picture I get so incontinence rather than period protection. I'm still not happy about the removal of'woman/women' from the site.

converseandjeans · 17/02/2022 23:04

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MichelleScarn · 17/02/2022 23:02

Oh and they're using the 'girls having pillow fights, cos that's what they do' trope.

Never had one, have I been deprived?

DomesticatedZombie · 17/02/2022 23:02

Sainsbury's do period pants for girls.

RoaringtoLangClegintheDark · 17/02/2022 23:00

@Plasmodesmata

Although the site has clearly been through the "remove all reference to women and girls" cleansing process.

Hasn’t it just

“Children” starting their periods FFS

Seems like a great product too, what a shame they have to fuck it up like this.

Doubletoilandtrouble · 17/02/2022 23:00

I have two children around 10-11, one has a penis the other one doesn’t…

If any (or both) suddenly start to bleed from their genitalia, should I buy the period pants or get a doctor’s appointment? And how do I know what do do for each one?

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KhaleesiOfChaos · 17/02/2022 22:59

@converseandjeans The photo of the boys is on their homepage as the main product image with the heading 'childrens period pants'. No mention of incontinence or bed wetting. So not only is it woke bollocks but it's also shit for their SEO!

I'm pissed off (pun intended) that anyone thought this was the best picture to use alongside that particular heading. Even if it was for a dual-use product, one use of which is 100% for the female sex only, then why not go crazy and include an actual girl in the photo?

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