I was about to buy these and then...

[SirVixofVixHall]

www.shethinx.com/blogs/thinx-piece/trans-men-people-with-periods-not-women
what is this gaslighting crap ?

Isn't calling your company 'shethinx' transphobic in the extreme anyway? Surely it should be 'theythinx' or 'xethinx' or something? So unwoke. Literal violence.

“Separate but equal” bathrooms were only introduced in the late 19th century to reinforce the idea that women, the ~inherently weaker~ sex, needed a special place to themselves for safety.

Did a man write this? Womens bathrooms were created because women were not permitted to use men's bathrooms.

They've worked very well for women, because what women wants to change a tampon on the street in front of strangers?

I was reading that wondering what the problem was, and mentally drafting a "c'mon guys, that's not so bad" post until the last section

WTAF did I just read?

Did a man write this? angry Womens bathrooms were created because women were not permitted to use men's bathrooms

Came here to say this..

'Separate but equal' bathrooms - what rot, there were no bathrooms for women, there wasn't any equality at all.

Making products which help transmen deal with their periods is good. Articles which give tips on how to deal with them, fine.

Removing the word 'woman' from their brand - not good. Lying about biology, terrible. Anyone who has a period is biologically female.

wot Errol said

I just want to shout fuck off and how misguided this is more loudly throughout the entire piece.

And 'this is why we created the boy short' - eff off. Why can't I wear them as a woman? And why weren't they designed for women? (Of course I know I can) just call them fucking shorts!! I've always loved swim shorts.

And they way they do feminists down... this really pissed me off.

and I've just realised I've dropped dark chocolate all over the baby's head which has melted and the hv is coming right now...

Well, yes. If they wanted to be really inclusive it'd be something like 'we've designed shorts for everyone who doesn't like stereotypically feminine clothes' . Transwomen and Gc feminists may well want exactly the same sort of product.

Argh I meant transmen in that post, obv.

Of course the gaslighting fuckers now have their advert showing on my Facebook feed. 🙄 No wonder the TRAs can dox real women, the internet practically leaves breadcrumbs.

and I've just realised I've dropped dark chocolate all over the baby's head which has melted and the hv is coming right now 😂

I hope you got it all licked off, in time.

*on

There were no public toilets for women because women weren't supposed to be out in public! It was an effective way of shaming women & keeping them within the domestic sphere. Therefore the only women on the streets would be seen as prostitutes or servants.
And now again it seems women are being pushed out of public life and visibility.

At what point will some of these women sit up and think "hmmmmm I sound just like a men's rights activist?"

Wow- “micromanaging where trans people pee.”
No thanks THINX you’d better think again. I haven’t seen this stance mentioned on their main Facebook adverts yet.

Yes Errol. Agree re the shorts.
The way it starts off almost reasonably is so horribly manipulative. Imagine reading that at 14, you’d quickly think that those nasty feminists were not your people, that you should be an ally to trans people who are in far more danger than you in public loos

And men burnt down the first female public toilets! Female erasers, history erasers, biology/science deniers.
Separate but equal - another racial appropriation.
Gosh they're so infuriatingly boring.

Thankfully baby was chocolate free when she arrived.

Yes, I don't think they've considered their audience very well regarding feminists and just women and girls. It's just extreme wokeness that shoots it's self in the foot.

Womens bathrooms were created because women were not permitted to use men's bathrooms.
So true, not because of the “Separate but equal” misappropriation.

Imagine reading that at 14, you’d quickly think that those nasty feminists were not your people, that you should be an ally to trans people who are in far more danger than you in public loos
This seems to be the underlying reasoning by all this anti-feminist propaganda. I would hate to be that age in the present climate.

“Separate but equal” bathrooms were only introduced in the late 19th century to reinforce the idea that women, the ~inherently weaker~ sex, needed a special place to themselves for safety. This ideology continues today, with the harmful argument that micromanaging where trans people pee “protects” women. In reality, trans people need the most protection in public spaces.

Women couldn't stay out of the house all day, to do a job or occupy public office because no lavs.

Amnesty and other aid agencies campaign vehemently for sex segregation in toilets, precisely because men will attack women. It's not some made up, namby pamby thing that people 'reinforce' because women are just daft like that.

The author of that article sounds ridiculous.

Especially as they then go on to mess up all their logic over 'women being the weaker sex is a namby-pamby invention', by claiming actually transwomen are the weaker sex.

Women being the weaker sex is just women being 'special', and anyway tranwomen are worse.

None of these people seem to have reached any kind of emotional or intellectual maturity. Primary school kids could do better.

It reads like something written by a schoolboy, I agree. It would be funny if it wasn’t part of the drip, drip, drip erosion of women and women’s rights.

Away to fuck, you gaslighting, two faced, bunch of lying pricks.

😂

There was a twitter storm about these about a year ago - because they (you couldn't make it up) had a transwoman on a stall at some marketing gig. People - ahem - WOMEN took offence.

Get these ones instead, OP. blog.debenhams.com/fashion/introducing-diary-dolls/

Not seen any bullshit about them - they were intitially designed with teenage girls in mind, but used by all sorts of women, and there are links to the endometriosis trust.

Invented by Smilie Smilie Carol Smilie.

Some of the places where I used public toilets most often have single occupancy toilets (ie two rooms with a toilet, sink, etc with "men" on one door and "women" on the other). Am I supposed to be offering to accompany trans friends into those? If so, tough, because the only situations in which I'm accompanying anyone into a single user toilet are a. they are a small child and can't manage by themselves or b. we are in a club and they need me to hold their hair back while they vomit.

The diary dolls ones are slightly different as they are meant to be worn to avoid leaking with normal san-pro. The Thinx ones are all you wear, they take the place of pads etc. So it is annoying that they are sold by a bunch of half wits.
I am going to buy some diary doll ones for dd though, for sleepovers when she worries.