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

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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.

On a similar topic I always wondered why there are a million official and non official words for describing liquid that comes out of a man's sexual organ, but for women, it's just called very unflatteringly discharge. 😑

Are knicker shields any better? 😂 otherwise mini pads?

Fgs,what is sexualised about the word panties?

It's what they are called in many places in the world. Knickers are broadly a UK term.

Pants are trousers imo.

That's never happened to me.

There you go 😂. Just the first search that came up.

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

Come on, use your imagination. Do you think every woman's able to go all day without dampening their gusset? It's easier to change a liner than change your knickers during the day.

Snatch patch?

I get that there will be various things, spotting, discharge etc, but I don't understand why you'd need what is essentially a second gusset? Wouldn't a gusset dry just as quickly as a pad?

I will stop saying GUSSET in a minute.

I vote fanny hammocks!

The liners have a waterproof lining which 'contains' the discharge better than a gusset does.
Light flow period pants do the same job though and are better for the environment.

I totally hate that word too- along with the words moist and gusset- it's irrational I know!!

@TinDogTavern PS I used to knit socks and part of the construction involved making a gusset.....'I'm just on the gusset now' was a common statement. 😉

Twat mat

A young colleague of mine calls them cum-catchers.

Moist panty gusset 😬

@GalileoHumpkins - ooh you monkey!!

To the pp upthread, I'm not sure women want to wear period pants all month long.

As for landfill, where I live they go to be incinerated, but even if they didn't, they are not the problem. Well over 90% of landfill is caused by industry, not consumers, and not women trying to deal with periods and discharge.

And no, they are not pointless, a tax on stupidity or preying on women's insecurities. Some women need them every day or some days. Just as some women have heavier periods than other women.

We're not all the same. Who knew?

I don't really care about the name, though.

Crying laughing at "fanny hammock" 😂 🤣

Maybe if folks are going to be upset by "panty" they could just be known as "Sanitary liners" as opposed to "Sanitary towels"....?

My dad always refers to sanitary towels as "fairy hammocks" and i HATE it.

I hate the term panties / panty …yuck. Pant liners is fine and functional.

The word panty makes me laugh, still remember a rv show where one woman told another to stop showing her panty hamster. Just stuck me as funny.

Knicker Sticker though, to the poster who mentioned that above, is genius. We don't use panty liners in this house but if we ever did...

yes, just vile. Got ick when I read it 😂

“liners” would work or pants shields.

A disaster for the environment? If we're calling a spade a spade...

They've been called pantyliners in the US since well before the early 90s, it still could have come from America.