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.

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This thread has cheered me up no end on a cold dank January Monday morning.

I notice nobody has mentioned knickers being called "briefs" which is still common usage. Maybe "Brief Buffers" or maybe Undercracker Snippits

Isn't that a sock down ones underwear for aesthetic purposes?

Sorry, not sorry.

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Knicker sticker is hilarious 😂😂

I also hate the word “panty” or “panties”

they’re knickers ffs. But as for the product, it’s not top of my list of annoyances. I find it worse when people actually use the word “panties” to describe knickers in a sentence.

In that regard, “liner” isn’t ideal either as it could be associated with a bin liner 🤣

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

Nope, I’m UK and for me pants = trousers/long overwear
knickers = ladies underwear

Pants as knickers seems a newer terminology to me. Could be the usual north south divide? But I certainly never used it.

Knickers/pants/underpants/undercrackers

Trousers. That's it. No other acceptable term. Apart from maybe pantaloons.

We invented the English language so I think need the final say on the definitive word for knicker liners. And it's not panty liners.

In that regard, “liner” isn’t ideal either as it could be associated with a bin liner 🤣

That's certainly the case on the Tescos online shopping app. 🙂

Another vote for Knicker Stickers here!

Re the trousers/pants thing. I remember planning a night out way back and a friend from Lancashire asked me “are you going to wear pants”? My response was that it was the middle of winter 😂.

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Oh I know, crotch blotter.

Nice. Says what it is on the tin.

My sides are actually hurting from laughing at this! 😂😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I hate the word 'panties' but for some reason I don't think of that when I hear pantyliners, I think it's the 's' that sexualises the word for me but I can't explain that at all!

I think it probably arose as a term from the US terminology because panties/pantys are distinct from pants in the US as the latter are trousers. However, I’m not sure knickers is as widely used as it once was. Still the default on the M and S website though.

M&S and l think the now defunct Miss Selfridge both “graduated” from saying panties to saying knickers!

And John Lewis, and Next, and Primark, and Asos.

I'm in Ireland. Pants are trousers here too. DS's uniform list this year included 2 pairs of grey pants for example.
It is a bit of an old fashioned term (like slacks) but still used and definitely not underwear.

Even if the term pants has a dual meaning, it is still appropriate because the liners are a barrier between knickers and trousers, aka pants and pants. 🙂

As an aside, this conversation reminds me of an evening class advertised at my local adult education college when I lived in Sydney. It was a sewing class for learning how to adjust trousers to fit perfectly, and it was called "Pants, Pants, Pants!" 😁

Knicker sticker - I like that!!

I've never even thought about it before, but you're right OP 'panty' is a ridiculous word 😂😂

My cat is obsessed with the strip of paper from these. She's 10 months old and one morning I screwed it up in a ball and threw it for her to chase. Now she stands by my side every morning when I put my knickers on. She knows the routine.

There's a drag artist in Ireland who goes by the stage name of Panty Bliss 🤢
'Panty' appeared in a series of Tesco promotions before Christmas as 'Panty Claus' 🤢😡
Not okay, Tesco!!!

I use the word pants.

I like vagina liner.

Also minge fringe, quim rim, cunt cover, fanny packer.