Kleenex rebrands 'sexist' Mansize tissues following customer complaints

[OpinionCat]

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?

I love the man sized tissues.

I can't help but feeling branding things anyone can use as "for men" often ends up as an own goal. I was talking to someone about this the other day. We both like milk chocolate but neither of us would ever consider a Yorkie, not consciously, but subconsciously feeling it's not for us. Same with mansize tissues, I never buy them.

Indeed, Tony Blair led the Westminster Plot of the Starburst Imperium after lobbying from a secretive cabal. It was one of the worst malfeasances ever perpetrated against the British public by an elected politician.

But what lobby group was responsible for the pointless rebranding of Marathons? Health food activists? Neo-marxists?

Yes they are "mansized" because they are appropriately sized for cleaning up a man's ejaculate (whether from wanking or from intercourse with another person. Needs more acreage than what is needed for a nose-blow from either sex.

The "complaints" will have been from transwomen whose dysphoria is being triggered when they have to use one to clean up what comes out of their lady-dicks.

lady-dicks

Are those the dicks of pre op men to women, or post op women to men?

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Nice way to try to derail an otherwise average thread into a trans one there.

But... but... they'll just wank into socks instead now.

@QueenDoris those are the dicks of the c80-90% of trans-identifying people born with XY chromosomes and a penis who have no intention of ever having an operation of any kind. They are quite happy with their biology as it is without surgery or medication and it is transphobic to suggest that there is anything unladylike about their entirely male stunning and fabulous body.

I don't think this is a derail. It seems an obvious explanation.

Just seen on Twitter that people are taking the piss out of the woman who got kleenex to change the branding, with things like changing Nando's because only nans can go, or five guys/Manchester united/mothercare. Not sure they should really be giving other examples to be honest, it's only going to make some dipstick complain and get Manchester changed to peopleChester.

It's like the 2 Ronnie newsreader sketch where the word 'sex' had to be replaced with 'thingy' because people had complained that it was rude. 'An incident in Middlethingy...'