Kleenex rebrands 'sexist' Mansize tissues following customer complaints

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news.sky.com/story/kleenex-rebrands-sexist-mansize-tissues-following-customer-complaints-11528558

i just... give up with this country...

i loved the tweet in the article:

Kleenex Mansize tissues to rebrand, as the name is deemed sexist. What can we add to the list...Loose Women, Manchester & Mothercare, perhaps?

Bloody hell. Whose life was so empty that they had the time and inclination to complain about the name of tissues?
How silly.

But I enjoy the minor thrill of petty disobedience when using them!

Yeah I agree, I think this is silly.

I always assumed they were "mansized" as they were for, uh, blokes to keep by the bed for... Cleaning up after masturbation.

I thought it was cod men have bigger noses!!

I always assumed they were "mansized" as they were for, uh, blokes to keep by the bed for... Cleaning up after masturbation.

Remember these days you don't have to be a man to have an active penis.

Ha, yes! I remember Flora Yorkie chocolate bars were "Not for girls".
Well, this possibly made them popular with males, but also females would have bought them in protest and defiance.

Deftly done, Yorkie, deftly done.

I haven’t complained, but the whole mansize thing is ridiculous. Wtf does it even mean.

the whole mansize thing is ridiculous. Wtf does it even mean.

They a physically bigger. Like men are.

I don't feel intimidated by man size tissues.

I didn't complain, but I did choose other brands as I found them unnecessarily sexist.

I think it is good that they've scrapped them.

I'm just thinking - surely as a feminist there are more important things they should be trying to change, such as the pay gap and equal opportunities etc.

Not pissing tissue names!!

I'm just thinking - surely as a feminist there are more important things they should be trying to change, such as the pay gap and equal opportunities etc.

Not pissing tissue names!!

This, with bloody mansized bells on!!! Wish I had so little in my life to worry about that I could get het up about fecking tissues!

It was seriously offensive to women with mansize snot.

It just gives ammunition to those who say things like "stupid feminists, it's all gone too far..."

seriously offensive

Really?

I thought they were XL wank rags too. Coke was sexistly marketed too, in that Coke Zero was the same as Diet Coke, but aimed at the boys. Same with Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max.

Waxy

I am glad there are people whose lives are so great that this is all they have to worry about.

Ah, I'm disappointed. They are a little ridiculous and now I can no longer make jokes about them.

People can be so short-sighted when it comes to blatant sexism. It's like we've become blindfolded by the status quo. If the tissues were labelled for any other side of a binary (gay tissues, Jewish tissues, trans tissues) there'd rightly be outcry. Why is the sex binary any different?

Sometimes change just happens organically. As far as I’m aware there was no massive campaign to change the name. Perhaps a few individuals did complain, but the company have basically just decided to change the name themselves. So the people complaining about feminism gone mad are being a bit silly.

It’s a marketing ploy

They’ll be back By Popular Demand in no time, bigger and manlier than ever. With David Gandy wiping his man sized nose on a billboard

Se people really don't have enough in their lives do they? I guess I'm happy for them that this is the most traumatic incident they've experienced.

Have they banned Yorkies yet? What about ladies pens?

I use mansize tissues when I’ve got a ridiculous cold. Women can be large or small. “Large tissues” makes far more sense.

It’s not worth getting up in arms about, but I do think “is my snot not worthy” every time I buy them.

Ps- the Yorkie advertising was a bit too - we need to move beyond gender stereotyping. It’s not a feminism issue, it’s a common sense issue.