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"Stop saying feminine when talking about periods"

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SummerPuddings · 28/06/2022 20:26

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Oh DO FUCK OFF!!! 🙈🙈🙈

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Findwen · 28/06/2022 21:57

There are honest companies, take Hortons example:

NeverDropYourMooncup · 28/06/2022 21:13

ErrolTheDragon · 28/06/2022 20:39

Period products are for any menstruating female - women, girls, and those who consider themselves as 'nonbinary' or transmen. Straight women and lesbians. It's a need based on sex, nothing to do with being 'feminine' - that's a gender description.

So yes, do stop saying 'feminine' when talking about periods. And certainly ditch 'feminine hygiene'.

The only people I've ever heard use the phrase are men too embarrassed to say anything more descriptive - they'd never manage to say 'Period Products' because it would mean saying the word Period.

Everybody I know/work with (there are over a thousand of the latter, so it's hardly a small sample) who actually uses them would say 'pads' or 'Tampax'.

HTH.

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 20:51

ErrolTheDragon · 28/06/2022 20:49

What about them? Male and female fit would be fine I'd have thought, though last time I noticed a Tena display it looked like it was 'default' and mens.... wow, a product for which women are the default human.Hmm

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the incontinence pads and pants to fit women are with the twee "feminine hygiene" products usually? Are the mens with them? They could just call them FLUID ABSORBERS

WooFighters · 28/06/2022 20:49

Perhaps supermarkets need to just go the whole hog and scrawl here be monsters on the aisles?

ErrolTheDragon · 28/06/2022 20:49

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 20:41

Period products is fine. But what about the incontinence pants etc.

What about them? Male and female fit would be fine I'd have thought, though last time I noticed a Tena display it looked like it was 'default' and mens.... wow, a product for which women are the default human.Hmm

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 20:41

Period products is fine. But what about the incontinence pants etc.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/06/2022 20:39

Period products are for any menstruating female - women, girls, and those who consider themselves as 'nonbinary' or transmen. Straight women and lesbians. It's a need based on sex, nothing to do with being 'feminine' - that's a gender description.

So yes, do stop saying 'feminine' when talking about periods. And certainly ditch 'feminine hygiene'.

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 20:36

ShowOfHands · 28/06/2022 20:35

Feminine hygiene products is supermarket speak.

Oh! I have never really noticed that before. Maybe vagina products is better?

ShowOfHands · 28/06/2022 20:35

Feminine hygiene products is supermarket speak.

achillestoes · 28/06/2022 20:32

I don’t think I’ve ever said “feminine” for these items.

SmileyPiuPiu · 28/06/2022 20:30

I don't know anyone who calls them feminine anyway?