FFS Now Thinx have gone woke

[StringyPotatoes]

I have been considering buying some period underwear for a while now and, having seen an advert for them almost every time I open my Facebook app I finally decided to purchase some Thinx pants.

Only I didn't go through with the purchase. Because their website has removed almost all trace of the word "girls" and "women" and replaced them with phrases such as "bleeders" and "people with periods".
I know this has happened relatively recently as I've been on their website fairly frequently, deciding on whether or not to buy from them. I can only imagine that they are doing this slowly.

I will not be buying any Thinx underwear now (I'm looking at WUKA, if anyone's interested) as I do not I identify as a "bleeder" but as a WOMAN.

What are WUKA like? Young people with periods, it's a clunky way of putting it.

Bleeder is an insult where I’m from, as in, get off your arse you lazy bleeder.

Bleeders?

Well they can fuck right off

Its literally an insult

As in....you shifty little bleeder

Oh cross post

more of this shite here:
www.shethinx.com/blogs/thinx-piece/trans-men-people-with-periods-not-women

Bleeders??

It's all a bit Chas and Dave

Gertcha Cow Son

Fuck, fuck fuck right off. how can they do this. Jesus now we can't even call ourself when and girls.

For Fucks Sake

@MindTheMinotaur I haven't tried them yet but WUKA are both cheaper and claim to hold twice as much as Thinx so they get my vote on many counts.

I hadn't even considered the insult side of things. They're originally American so perhaps they are, quite literally, uneducated and ignorant?

I no longer menstruate (post menopause), but I suggest you all write to them and say you were going to buy their products but this appallingly anti-woman language has sent you straight to the mooncup folk.

(Mooncup folk - possible name for a feminist group?!)

Uneducated and ignorant of the connotations of the word bleeder (and to basic human biology). I wasn't making a sweeping generalisation about Americans!

Will they make special pants for people who ejaculate? Because presumably, on their logic, the word ‘male’ wouldn’t be appropriate for that hypothetical situation. As ‘female’ isn’t appropriate for people who menstruate? Unless I’ve got it all wrong of course .

Bleeders that is so ridiculous it actually makes me laugh.

They’re marketing period pants! Their only market is women and girls
I’m sure the tiny number of trans men will cope with the adverts being directed at biological women, since that is what their reproductive system makes them.

We are just breeders and bleeders now !! How dehumanizing can you get. Hope they go bankrupt

I was about to recommend cheap ones from amazon by intimate portal, which I find work well for me. However, going to some of the product pages shows that they talk abut being for a ‘person’ who menstruates. I do wonder if this is poor English translation as their own company website talks unashamedly about ‘women’, as do other pages. I don’t think they’re woke yet:

www.amazon.co.uk/Intimate-Portal-Incontinence-Period-Knickers/dp/B019TZJCIC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?psc=1&keywords=intimate+portal+period+knickers&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1536779296&sr=8-2-spons

These ones I find comfortable and useful extra back up as they have a waterproof layer.

Others are more like thinx in that they’re actually absorbent and I sometimes use them towards the end of my period, but I find them a bit less comfortable as the band digs in to my swollen tummy at the start of my period:

www.amazon.co.uk/Intimate-Portal-Absorbent-Menstrual-Incontinence/dp/B074M4GVK6?ref=ast_p_ep&tag=mumsnetforum-21

Well, that's made up my mind about trying those out! Let me know how you get on with WUKA

You said 'uneducated' though op.

And Americans are ignorant to basic human biology?!

This really fucks me off. My periods have ruined my life. I have endometriosis and adenomyosis. I can’t identify out of them. I’ve lost three jobs directly due to my horrific periods, and the pain in between them.

I can just about accept people with periods but bleeders is just horrid. For one I'm not actually bleeding and just in general it sounds a bit derogatory. It reminds me of the term 'breeders' from back in the day.

Badly worded and posted without proofreading. I was trying to say that due to being American they were ignorant to the other possible meaning of the word "bleeder" as well as being blind to who actually menstruates. It came out wrong and for that I sincerely apologise.

Thanks for he recommendation @Potplant2! Might try those out before making a full on commitment to a more expensive brand

I don't really understand why they tie themselves up in knots about inadvertently misgendering potential customers. Surely the number of transmen theoretically upset about having to buy products for women is dwarfed by the volume of women put off by being referred to as bleeders. Much safer to market them as period pants and leave the customer to decide whether or not they want them. Although I suppose it has got people talking about them...

If they’re so concerned why can’t they just write more creatively so that the terms aren’t needed at all? They’ve done this very deliberately - it would be very possible to write the copy for a site like this without using women or the alternative terms at all.

Thinx was also the brand where the (female) chief exec was accused of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment by some of her staff. That put me off them:

www.thecut.com/2017/03/thinx-employee-accuses-miki-agrawal-of-sexual-harassment.html