Always (sanitary towells) forced to remove Venus logo

[QwertySmalls]

From The Fail unfortunately maybe someone can find another source but I cant see one atm.

Transgender lobby forces sanitary towel-maker Always to ditch Venus logo from its products

Sanitary towel pad maker now kowtows to transgender activists born female
They removed the feminine Venus symbol from its products after complaints
Butmany of Always’s female customers have responded angrily to the move
Sanitary towels with the new packaging will arrive in the stores by January 2020

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592413/amp/Transgender-lobby-forces-ditch-female-logo-sanitary-towels.html

Gonna get RSI at that rate.

I imagine 'their' right hand is already well exercised.

I find it strange that a company would throw their brand under a bus by alienating their market, especially as they're supposed to maximise profits for their shareholders benefit.

i got deleted! There’s no freedom of speech, when it comes to protecting this tiny sector of society.

We should all boycott P&G! I certainly will. Are you reading P&G... you have just alienated your target market!

I just came to say...

News just in
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Court case
Agreed
Complainant lost
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Can’t say any more. Wall have ears🤭😒

Always menstrual hygiene products[2]
Ariel laundry detergent
Bounty paper towels, sold in the United States and Canada
Charmin bathroom tissue and moist towelettes[3]
Crest toothpaste[4]
Dawn dishwashing
Downy fabric softener and dryer sheets
Fairy washing up liquid
Febreze odor eliminator
Gain laundry detergents, liquid fabric softener, dryer sheets and dish washing liquid
Gillette razors, shaving soap, shaving cream, body wash, shampoo, deodorant and anti-perspirant
Head & Shoulders shampoo
Olay personal and beauty products
Oral-B inter-dental products
Pampers & Pampers Kandoo and Luvs disposable diapers and moist towelettes. The 2014 Financial Report lists Pampers as Procter & Gamble's largest brand.[5]
Pantene haircare products
SK-II beauty products
Tide laundry detergents and products
Vicks cough and cold products

Ones to avoid LADIES!

I worded that was really badly Birdsfoottrefoil. Apologies. I meant to say (something along the lines of) 'if having a period is triggering, I would have thought the symbol would be the least of your worries'. I didn't mean to suggest removing the symbol was a non issue.

Too angry to type effectively -why must the few get to eradicate the many? Basic biological erosion underway here.
Will never buy their products ever again.

www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/health/always-period-gender-symbol-removed-transgender-nonbinary-trnd/index.html

From the piece: *Getting periods can be a dysphoric experience for transgender and nonbinary people, especially because of the way that periods are generally discussed and addressed as something that only happens to people who are assigned women at birth.

No one is assigned ‘woman’ at birth.

Observed female, referred to as ‘girl’ sure.

Oh and looks like Mastercard (appropriate name) Lyft? and Tinder are the latest/next to glug the Koolaid, according to the article.

I have a Mastercard. It's well used.

Periods what now? Do the lads sit in the pub and discuss their periods over a pint?

Periods generally discussed and addressed as something that only happens to people who are assigned women at birth. Oh boy, have I got news for these people.

Is this just a huge immaturity and self absorption thing?

I'm wondering if Tena men & Tena lady will come under pressure to change names to something more "inclusive"

Oh yes I had forgotten about Tena.

Cheeky Wipes have gone the way of Thinx, sort of...at least we are not reduced to 'menstruators'.

Maybe this needs a thread of its own?

mobile.twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1105872131362091009

"Kenyan women are using the Twitter hashtag #MyAlwaysExperience to express outrage over the Always brand of sanitary pads, which they say causes rashes, burns and discomfort."
One woman even says she thought that was normal to feel burning.

For those of you wondering what the recent deletions are for, well several posters used a traditional (Scottish?) word that rhymes with baddie...

Blimey, that twitter thread is an eye-opener, Once.

Yes, definitely start a thread on that as well. I know a lot of us have said Always gives us an itchy fanny, but it sounds like Always have gone one worse in countries where they think they can get away with dumping sub standard products where consumer regulation isn't as tight, and are actually selling products which cause chemical burns.

(NB, used to share an office with a fellow student part of whose research involved making polyelectrolyte gels - the stuff that goes into Always and nappies - and the precursor chemicals are incredibly nasty, even if the end result is pretty benign. I can only begin to imagine what the end result would be like if something went wrong in your processing plant and some of the nasties lingered in the end product...)

My worry is those businesses that are being 'inclusive' but not really announcing it, so it's not as noticeable as Always and some other brands. So very subtle changes but we still end up at a point where businesses no longer use the words woman, female, feminine etc. If the words can be eliminated when talking about periods then we have no hope for other areas of life.

I'm wondering if Tena men & Tena lady will come under pressure to change names to something more "inclusive"

Tena Men will probably go unchallenged but it will be Tena Lady that has to change to Tena People or maybe just Tena.

BarbaraStrozzi
Apologies it was posted about a couple pgs back I missed it but worth the bump for others anyway I hope. Yes it's just nasty isn't it.I'll be keeping an eye in that twitter thread to see if the always team will reply to these women.

I've just read the post on cheeky wipes Facebook page. Clear to see many people (Inc posie Parker) have been deleted and banned.

I'm finding this all so very depressing what does the future hold..

The way things are going, the future will inevitably hold a very large international liberation movement for exceptionally pissed off people born female, who are done with putting up with all this crap.