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.

I just mention early 90s because that’s when I went through puberty, I wasn’t even aware of them before that.

Yep. I really hate the term. I use them on very light days or alongside a tampon so I buy them fairly often. If I have to ask DP get them I say ‘the little liners’ so I don’t have to say it out loud.

Just say liners

I mean, what else could you be referring to

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Each to their own, of course, but there are alternatives.
Period pants also come in varying absorbance levels.

I love knicker stickers 😂 I do really dislike the word panty myself, it sounds almost quite seedy to me ? Like I can imagine it being said in porn or something so it makes me cringe when I say it !

Whats lenght of usage got to do whether someone likes the word or not?
To me thats irrelevant. There are certainly older words that I dont like, in any of the languages I speak.

In my native language the liners are called "slip pads" as opposed to "menstrual pads". While the name for a pad is an "inlay".

Yuck

God bless this ship, and all who sail in her 🍾

Slippery on deck!

Get a life

Clunge Sponge?

But they existed before the early '90s and so did America. So it's perfectly possible that the name was borrowed from America isn't it? I guess I wasn't understanding your point that it couldn't have been American because as far as the early '90s that's what they've been called. America did exist before the early 90s.

I mentioned about 10 years ago that the opportunity had been missed to call them knicker stickers and I was told to add that into my user name.

Hence I’ve been BathshebaKnickerStickers since

Moisture mats 😆😆

It's also known by that name in other countries - I can remember them in the late 80s here (NZ). We also use the word pantyhose without anyone being upset about it.

Why would anyone actually care what they are called?

😂 it's like an episode of the inbetweeners

Pants are trousers though so that wouldn't work.

Surely that would be a name for a period sponge not a liner. I might be tempted to try one again if they had a rhyming name!

I’ve never thought about the word pantyliner but I agree it’s weird and twee since we don’t say panties here. I’d be happy with period liner, sanitary liner or discharge liner

Loving the alternative names for them on this thread. Knicker stickers 😆
I have also heard 'drip tray'.

I got to my 40s before even using them. My mum always told me that they were for ladies with "dirty knickers".

Pants are trousers in the US and Australia. In the UK, pants are knickers.

What about 'fadge badge'

yanbu I hate the word panty/panties too. They could be called underwear liners or underpants liners?

I find gussets in knickers are not in the right place for me. They sit too far back.

I'm 60+ and American and panty liners are for pee. Every cough spurts pee.
They are on a different shelf than period-related pads.