Is san pro appeal offensive?

[DrSeuss]

I work in a secondary school in the London area. I am currently running an appeal for Red Box, an organisation which provides sanitary towels and other toiletries for those in need. (Please check out their website and maybe start your own appeal). I made posters today and put one in every department office, then tried to put one in the main school office where about six women work. I was told that this was not possible as a member of the public might see the poster there. I pointed out that fifty per cent of the public use san pro but the answer is still no. AIBU in finding this reasoning odd?

My local Tesco collects for red box, it’s a fantastic idea.

Ridiculous. Even my kid's primary school has a notice advising girls they can get sanpro from the office.

Pandarific Just a shortening of sanitary protection I believe.

Gah, THANK YOU. That has been niggling at me forever!

I think teenagers think it sounds more hip & happening!

Is your school catholic/religious? I once had a comment about walking into work with a massive pack of pads (that I give to kids caught short because the nurses office was never, never open ) under my elbow. What ever would the priest think if he saw me?!
I left that school after a year. I’m totally starting one of these in my current school, thank you

Didn't Harry and Meghan ask for donations to an Indian period poverty charity instead of wedding gifts? If it's good enough for the royals...

Not to mention Surfers Against Sewage Eurochick

Our school is Anglican but very, very liberal. We have out gay staff and kids. We work with Stonewall. We have Muslim and Sikh students and cater for them. The Muslim group use our chapel for Friday prayers! It was a senior member of the office staff who would not let me put up the poster. Every other department accepted it without issue. In one almost exclusively male department I pointed out the items on the list that they might feel most comfortable giving.

I wondered about the wisdom of flushable wipes too.

I imagine flushable wipes going down the loo would make a pleasant change for the person unblocking them, compared the usual collection of stuff people think they can shove down them. A camera, numerous phones and a Gregg's sausage roll all spring to mind.

What a brilliant campaign. Whoever wants the poster taking down is a grade A idiot.

Ah you see they have broken the 6th rule of misogyny.
‘Women who go round being female at men, breast feeding and menstruating, deserve to be punished’

Put them up anyway.

The detail of knickers and tights sounds pervy. Sorry

Really. Have a fucking word with yourself.

I'm going to go against the grain and say I don't think it's appropriate to have references to tampons and knickers on posters in public offices. I imagine a lot of parents certainly wouldn't be impressed if they have younger DC for example.

Do they hide their children’s eyes in supermarkets, chemists, public toilets and the bathroom?

It’s a word and if that child understands what that word is then they are old enough to not be ‘upset’ by it.

CalF I change my sanitary pads in front of my young dc. Why on earth would a poster be a problem?

Red Box? You are seriously asking for a piss take! Sorry

I’d say you’ve got a clear workaround staring you in the face. Surreptiously expose your new project to the student body. Wait for the Red Tide of support to wash your colleague out of his dinosaur cave. Doubly so if your high school has boys who get involved.

He’ll soon wish he’d helped you, and kept it in the staff-only zones. Make sure and emphasise how many parents/visitors etc loved the idea.

You wouldn't go and browse the tampon range in Boots while with your 5 year old DS because they'd start asking all sorts of questions. I think it's the same thing here.

Has your colleage just arrived from the 1930s?
It looks like a great campaign. I'd take it further.

I imagine a lot of parents certainly wouldn't be impressed if they have younger DC for example.

Why? children are very matter of fact about such things, if they learn about them early with no sense of outdated shaming taboo about it (I remember being slightly baffled by the tampon ads with blue liquid when I was a kid 4 or 5 decades ago...even then, they weren't a total secret). Kids are unlikely to be shocked by the idea of spare undies.

You wouldn't go and browse the tampon range in Boots while with your 5 year old DS because they'd start asking all sorts of questions. I think it's the same thing here.

No it’s not at all the same.
Boring word on a boring poster - box of stuff that mummy picks up.

A bit surprised that children should be protected from a poster.I seem to remember no bodily functions being a secret once you have a toddler.

@CalF123
Yes I would buy tampons with a 5 year old in toe.
If they asked about them I would explain (if they didn't already know!)
There's no reason to keep periods a secret.

'asking all sorts of questions'

Very easily answered (in an age appropriate way) I'd have thought. Nothing compared to the first book DD chose from school in reception ... The Life Cycle of the Snail. Hermaphrodite sex.

I'm going to go against the grain and say I don't think it's appropriate to have references to tampons and knickers on posters in public offices. I imagine a lot of parents certainly wouldn't be impressed if they have younger DC for example.

Do younger DC get their eyes covered in the supermarket then? All those pairs and packets of knickers and tights hanging everywhere? Don't they have underwear themselves?

Dear gods, I'm an old fart in my 50s and my parents didn't have a stick up their arses like this. Things were clearly explained to me as and when I asked.