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.

What about 'liner'?

They're with the regular menstrual pads at every store that I shop at in Cincinnati.

Slim pad

Under liner

Mini pad

Mini slim under liner pad ?!😖

No, trousers are trousers, in my world pants are underwear.

Knicker stickers 👏👏👏👏👏

Panty is a word that gives me the 🤮

Panties is what middle aged men call teenagers' underwear

😂😂😂😂😂

I truly shudder to think how that could have come up in workplace conversation.

Disgusting.

🙄 It's what shops who sell them, call them. See my screenshot further up.

And I am not in the USA.

No, incontinence products are for pee. Pantyliners are predominantly for light discharge.

They may be called that on some websites that appear in your Google search but they're not called that in long-established UK stores like M&S.

Isn't the UK pants a shortened version of underpants?

Who says? They're for whatever people need them for, including discharge, period spotting and stress incontinence.

Incontinence pads are for more serious incontinence, just as sanitary towels are for the heavier days of a period.

Pant liner doesn't sound right to me because I don't call a single item of underwear a pant, anymore than I call what goes over them a trouser.

But we do call them trouser presses. Not trousers presses.

Pantliner gets my vote. Or knicker stickers

Well clearly folk can do what they like with them, but they're not marketed as incontinence products.

I've definitely also heard the term trouser or pant, singular not plural.

(Can't find the original quote you quoted so adding on here).

I don’t know one person who uses the word “panties”. A few friends say “pants” but most say knickers. What’s wrong with “knicker-liners”.

And in most cases liners are unnecessary anyway. That is what the gusset of your knickers is for.

There have already been discussions as to why some folk prefer extra absorbancy in that area up thread. We're all different.

Well I don't see many adverts, but the once I have seen have marketed them at women who want to stay fresh down under, without being explicit.

I'm not surprised they're not marketed for incontinence because they don't hold a lot of pee, but they can save the day for the many millions of women who get caught out by an occasional cough or sneeze.

Everyone i know would just say a "liner" and would use for tail end of period rather than for ordinary discharge.

And in most cases liners are unnecessary anyway. That is what the gusset of your knickers is for.

@StarlightLady why "most"? Are you assuming they're for discharge too? Women who rely on their knicker gusset to catch stress incontinence can smell pretty bad by the end of the day.

Clearly it depends on the level of incontinence but pantyliners just might not cut it over a day of potential leaks. I'm not overly familiar with incontinence, yet anyway, but would err on rather safe than sorry in terms of protection if I needed it!

I agree with you, for some they are a requirement. But l don’t think that is most women.

I am not in the UK, and afaik UK is the only country I know that call them knickers.

This is our equivalent shop of M&S.

What I am saying is that just because it isn't a preferred name of underwear there, it is not the case in many other places.

But the comments about icks, and the porn related are ridiculous 😂

Are you aged under or over 50? 🙂

They are also called 'briefs' some of the time, but lets not even go there 😀