AIBU to not wear panty liners every day?

[Sammysees]

Tbh this is a complete new one for me. Was having a conversation with a friend yesterday who wears panty liners every day and has done since she was 15. I’d never heard of this before and told her so. She told me I was a manky minge and that everybody wore them. Is this true? Thoughts please ....

PANTS ARE FINE FOR SOME SCANT DISCHARGE. If they aren't then wear a fricking panty liner!!

The vast majority of women don't need anything more than a pair of pants. If more was generally needed then pants through the ages would have developed to reflect this.
There are outliers though ... those who need more protection and those who need no protection. I couldn't conceive of wearing no pants at all as the wetness would have nowhere to go. But pants are sufficient for me (except on post sex days when I'll wear a liner!).

I csnt understand the smell issue though. For me pants are much better at dealing with any smells but disposable liners do have a slight whiff about them so have to be changed throughout the day.

So now having a 'dry minge' is being used as some kind of insult

Yes I can smell liners if I have to wear them at the end of my period but not my pants.

God this thread must be a fetishists wet dream waves

What a waste of money & how detrimental to the environment

This really does make me angry. How is a tiny liner detrimental to the environment in the scheme of things? And in any event, discharge and periods are a nuisance and if there is something that makes them easier to deal with, I am using them. I am not having messy and stained knickers because someone on MN has decreed that using liners is an eco-sin.

I used to be a member of the Womens Environmental Network but left because they were obsessed with sanitary protection and nappies. When I challenged them on it they said they were the thing women could most control.

AAAAGH! So sexist. Obviously periods but not nappies, dads change them too!

In any event, none of these things are ever that simple. Is it better, from an eco-perspective, to throw away a tiny liner, or wash the same pair of knickers three times to get them clean. Or end up throwing the knickers away?

And dear MNers. WE AR NOT THE SAME. I find it really difficult to grasp that some women find that so difficult to grasp. Sigh.

What's bonkers is being judgemental about some else's preference just because it doesn't match yours

This. Really.

On a similar theme, I've never understood how women can wear g-strings with their tiny gussets. I guess this thread shows that they have less discharge so can get away with it?

“What a waste of money & how detrimental to the environment

This really does make me angry. How is a tiny liner detrimental to the environment in the scheme of things?”

Really don’t understand why people feel the need to do this. Deny that something is harmful simply because they want to carry on doing it.

Want to smoke? Fine, but don’t insist that smoking is good for you.

Want to use disposable nappies? Carry on - I certainly did. I couldn’t face using washables, it was all too hard. That doesn’t mean that I tried to convince myself that disposables aren’t bad for the environment. Of course they are. I just did my best to mitigate their use by doing other things for the environment.

Wearing a liner every single day of your adult life? You bet that’s bad for the planet. How can it not be? And that’s ok! We do loads of things that are bad for the planet! All the time! Just don’t lie to yourself that it makes no difference. Let’s say you get through 20 liners a month, year round for 40 years. That’s 9,600 liners. Now multiply that by a few million women, and send your imagination into the future when those plastic liner backings are still sitting in landfill in 400 years, the pile getting ever bigger in the meantime.

@Frokni i use imse vimse brand .

I do occasionally but urs certainly not a daily must be done lol

Guess what everybody, women are all different. Yes panty liners are detrimental if they're not compostable, and the plastic they're wrapped in is ridiculous.
Children are awful for the environment but it sounds like most of you have them. Eating meat is awful for the environment too. Bet most of you enjoy your Sunday roast...

A Sunday roast is a quaint thing that is made on rare occasions when family descend. Maybe four times a year? (Rather as some women are very occasional liner-wearers.)

I think children can be bad for the environment, but it depends whether (or not) you put them in disposable nappies for three years and habitually chauffeur them five minutes walk down the road, bleach your entire house to kill microbes and refuse to dress them in anything other than new clothes which must be changed and laundered the minute a speck of dust appear, and feed them on Amazon-rainforest destroying beef.

The vast majority of women don't need anything more than a pair of pants. How would you know such a thing.

If more was generally needed then pants through the ages would have developed to reflect this. As far as I'm concerned the gusset is too far back.

There was a thread a few months ago about how gussets are in the wrong place for lots of women- some discharge works it’s way forward, so coming out right at the top of the labia on to the single layer front of the pants. Again on that thread - “no way my discharge lands in the middle of the gusset therefore it’s in the right place” FOR YOU

Yes, I remember that thread Rimspector

Anyone who has used disposable nappies for a couple of years created far more land fill than liners

Another medical reason - if you have a ring pessary to hold a prolapse in then your body can react by producing extra 'moistness' to try and get rid of the foreign body. It is much more convenient to change a liner at work than go through several pairs of pants a day!

Eco Femme liners are good cloth ones and give a choice of 2 styles: one has a waterproof PUL layer and one is just cloth. They are also organic cotton.

And no if you use disposable liners daily for many years you create a lot more land fill than 2 years of nappies.

I used washable nappies and wipes and I use washable pads.
I don't fly, I don't have a car anymore, I was a vegetarian for most of my life and have just gone back to no meat, I recycle everything I can, I compost, I am reducing my plastic waste as much as I can, I've made washable wipes recently for both toilet and kitchen use and I make clothes from what I can. I like to think I'm pretty aware of my impact on the planet and I've tried to mininize it over the years. My next step is to start to make my own cleaning products.

If people RTFT, they would magically see that some of us who use liners every day don't buy plastic ones. They'd also see that pants aren't enough. They'd also see that we actually do wash and change knickers daily if not more. They'd also see that everyone is different.

The reasons people are getting so angry are because posters are

1. still commenting without rtft
2. still making rude and ignorant comments

ProfessorMoody summed up some of these very well on page 6.

Imagine you needed to wear liners for any of the reasons some of us have given. Just imagine the wet patches going through to your trousers on a near daily basis, and then rtft again and imagine how you’d feel, reading things like :

Not normal
Bizarre and sad
Bonkers, no need
Ewwwww
Not sexy
Yuk
Much better to wear cotton pants and shower every day

It’s comments like this last one that got our backs up. People could just reply that no, they don’t need them. But to add on things like this does imply that liner wearers don’t wash every day, it just does.

PandorasBag seriously? You want to bring the hijab into this? Seriously? I don’t wear liners as a double cover for my genitals because I’m trying to hide them. It’s nothing to do with modesty, it’s about preventing leaks on your trousers, and possibly on chairs. Yes some of us have that much discharge. And yes it’s normal for me. No I don’t have an infection. I just produce a lot, and have heavy periods for 7 days too. The only modesty issue is protecting my modesty if I was sitting on your sofa and had to apologise for leaving a wet patch. Would you prefer I left patches of my bodily secretions wherever I sat?
As people have tried to repeatedly explain, some people have none, or a tiny amount, so maybe they’re happy to let the knickers gusset absorb it, and are fine having a tiny stain at the end of the day and their husbands are fine with it. But for some of us, we’re not falling for a marketing strategy, or worried our husbands will think any less of us, nothing to do with that. I just don’t want wet knickers! I can’t carry 4 pairs around with me all day, changing as needed, and sometimes trousers too. And as for asking why a stained liner is different to knickers, it means I can put it in the bin as I feel I need to, put a clean one on and be dry again, without taking off my boots and trousers as well, keeping the stained ones in my bag and having to wash them when I get home, hoping the stain washes out.

I don’t know how to make it any clearer.

It is a personal choice - you are not a 'manky minge' for not doing so - but this is a big market when you look at how many products are 'out there' so obviously women use them or feel they need them or they wouldn't be in the shops. It can be a hygiene thing for some of us (especially those with bladder issues or those who tend to sweat a lot). It's probably not so good for the environment as some have pointed out, but then again there are many things going to landfill used on a daily basis, including nappies, sanitary pads/tampons, disposable pants and plastics which can't be recycled. Maybe the answer is to make sanitary protection etc biodegradable? But if you don't need them - there is no issue.

Does she not put on clean underwear everyday? Unless you have accidents then I don't understand why they are necessary.

And round we go

This thread has made me want to go straight out to buy some scented liners. Women who wear them are clearly more hygiene conscious than the rest.

I obviously change my panties - waits for wails!!- daily too. Doesn’t everyone?🧐