Aibu to think "panty liners" should be re-named?

[musroomsontoast]

I'd be happy with "pant liners", but I'm open to other suggestions.

To me, the word "panties" is either a sexualised or infantilised version of the word "pants". I cringe when I see it on supermarket products.

Me neither, not sexual in anyway to me.
In the US I heard getting panties in a wad, not a twist. Could have been regional I suppose.
I never called underwear panties, everyone wore undies in our house.

Paper and plastic pollution?
That's pretty much what all one use sanitary/discharge/hygiene products are.
Period pants (the ones designed for the lighter flow) are a good alternative.

DH calls them "laundry slugs" due to their water absorbing properties when accidentally put in the machine.

Drawer liners?

Brief kerchief? Gusset Guardian ? Pant protector ?

Yeah, a little bit. 😄 A lot of younger American women hate “panties,” though.

I say “nylons” if they’re sheer, “tights” if they’re opaque.

The terms was first used by the Washington Post in the 1980s so yes was imported from America but after 40 odd years do we really need to be upset by it?

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/panty-liner_n?tab=factsheet#9932200490

Pantyhose in America are transparent and 10 denier; tights are thicker from 30-100+ denier. They are too different things now going extinct. No one wants to see my pork fat colored legs.

😂😂

But drawer liners are scented sheets of paper used to make your underwear drawer smell nice, so that could get confusing.

😂😂😂

Was not expecting to see that suggestion crop up 🤣

Pee Pads

Hankerchuffs gets my vote

That made me giggle 🤣

Quite.ive never dried my hands on one by accident

Or on purpose.

This wins for me!

Whatever they're called they should have a warning attached that says, they don't actually stick and will end up concertinaed up your bum.

My dd once called one a ‘knicker sticker’
I quite like that

I love that, how about Fanny Fluid Flannel?
Aside from that I have no problem with the word Panty. How the fook is it sexualised?

Not if you stick them far enough forward in your knickers to actually do their job! If you place them centrally over the gusset, they’re too far back, ime!

HAHA! fanny hammocks is what i’m calling them from now on, cheers x

I think the most revolting term I’ve heard for knickers was the repulsive James Haskell recently referring to them as mackerel hammocks. 🤮

I've never understood the point of panty liners. Surely that's what your actual gusset is for? misses point

Anyway. Panties is the worst word in the history of ever.

They are for discharge, some people get a lot more than others 😬. I tend to use them as I am finishing my period or if I’m just spotting, as I’m getting older I spot a lot more. Never used them when i was younger.