Are Man sized tissues really sexist?

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Or is the news that Kleenex, who have made ‘man sized’ tissues for 60 years bloody ridiculous?

I reckon they're experiencing falling sales for this product and are just grabbing a headline whilst rebranding them.

No, load of carp. Will cost the company loads of £ and probably result in them binning perfectly good boxes. Another idiotic step too far!

Why would they bin any boxes? They'd be very stupid to announce this before they'd planned in a sensible changeover that didn't result in wastage. I'm not sure how changing what is printed on the packaging will cost lots of money either?

You should see outrage on twitter from men and that’s over box of tissues!

🤔 what a time to bring this change in.

Wankers

I’m glad I’m not alone. I laughed when my DH first read the news to me! I thought he was joking. I don’t know who would take offence. I have to agree with @AssassnatedBeauty, it’s done to grab headlines

I'm sure tissues are really important to.the dudes who visit FWR. Beyond that, I don't care.

Good to see these companies out there dealing with the big tissues 🙄

Does man sized tissue = wank rag or have I misunderstood ?

Women don't ejaculate, so they don't need to mop up jizz.

I always assumed that man sized was a euphemism for wank sized.

Man sized tissues are pretty rubbish if you actually have a streaming cold. You either waste half the tissue or have snotty tissue in your hand for longer, which probably means you're more likely to spread germs. I'm pretty sure the 'mansize' thing was a sales gimmick to start with anyway, wasn't it? Surely men don't really believe they have such huge hooters?

Oh lordy! And now I've just seen that other people think they're for wanking into.

Why can't they use an old sock like they did in the old days?

Short answer: not they are not (sexist). Some people are quite mad.

I thought they were specially intended for man flu.

Reminds me of how the demise of Salad Cream was announced on a regular basis (with a resulting spike in sales).

I had always assumed they were for wanking too.

It is idiotic. Someone called Lisa Hancox seems to be claiming to have complained on the basis of conversation with her 4 year old son. She works for an ad agency but says it does not represent Kleenex.

Albeit it is a daft and pointless thing to say she is getting more of a hard time than she deserves on Twitter.

If there were no man sized tissues what would they sneeze into when they have man flu?

Surely a 4 year old isn’t grown up enough to handle man sized tissues anyway?

This sounds like irresponsible parenting to me. Does she let him drink and smoke too?

Quite a few people were sceptical about the reading and analytical skils of the 4 year old.

😁trading standards should have been involved years ago . They are definitely not the size or shape of a man ! Haha.

It's absolutely stupid, are we renaming manhole covers next? When my contracts renewed will I be classed as a department womanager?

This sort of shit is why many people still don't identify with feminism. They don't want to be associated with the kind of person who complains about a bloody box of tissues.

Nope - my husband can produce more snot than any woman I've ever seen 😂

I, also, assumed they were for wanking. I still remember the dawning realisation mid-rant to a couple of male friends about how men don't have bigger noses do they?