Always (sanitary towells) forced to remove Venus logo

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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

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

Tena can be mispronounced as Tina 🤫 Will need to rebrand as Tenor alongside a grovelling apology for literal violence against women with incontinence who identify as men with incontinence and are being made to deny their existence when buying female named incontinence pads.
This will then lead to demands for Tena Lady for men who identify as women and are only able to buy products with lovely lady names.
Bog standard women and men will be the ones smelling of wee as they won’t know which product to actually buy 😥

Nice piece on this in The Spectator

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/the-bizarre-decision-to-remove-the-venus-symbol-from-sanitary-towels/

Well I hope Always and Flora lose a lot of business – they deserve to. What on earth are they thinking alienating their key demographic? Because on the whole, it is still women who do the family food shop, and it’s only women who have periods.

Thanks, Naomi Firsht (and The Speccie)

Thanks Timelady, Naomi and The Spectator.

I've seen some bizarre posts on MN referring to women getting het up just over the removal of a 'fanny symbol'. Worth noting it was actually one TRA who took issue with the longstanding Venus symbol, with Always pandering.

Anyway, this paragraph from the article sums up just why I'm being vocal and boycotting Always:

It shouldn’t really matter, should it? It’s just a symbol on a wrapper. But it does. Because when you start to deny women’s biology, you begin to deny they exist at all.^

I do like the idea of condoms being marketed to 'anyone with a penis' (from Naomi Firsht in the Speccie blog).

I think I may be emailing Durex later today.

I see my last comment was removed (probably for being facetious), so I'll put it more straightforwardly.

Why, if transmen are so dysphoric that they are triggered by periods and feminine packaging, are they choosing to have periods in the first place? There are lots of contraceptive methods which eliminate them completely.

I was looking at Snopes last nigh and they had an article about this with the conclusion that feminist women were being 'aggressive' in asking for a boycott and much more unreasonable than the trans lobby. It said that when the Venus symbol was put on the trans lobby didn't complain yet now it is being removed, women are complaining ergo feminists are the unreasonable and aggressive ones! It concluded that the trans lobby did NOT get the symbol removed.

WTAF? I thought Snopes was meant to be reliable? It also referred to gender throughout, rather than sex. Pile of shit.

Snopes doesn't surprise me. I expect there's a huge overlap with the "atheist"/rational wiki community (I've put atheist in quote marks because these aren't just people who disbelieve in God, these are people who feel they have to proselytise about it, almost with the same fervour as evangelical believers - as an agnostic I find them quite weird, psychologically speaking).

Typically lefty dude bros with a side order of misogyny.

I thought Snopes was meant to be reliable?

It's run by left wing Canadians isn't it?

Ugh ok.....another site to avoid.

- the company that advertise their products with the narrative "Some people think being a woman means being only soft and delicate". I've been meaning to post about this advert for ages but hadn't connected it being Always until just now. This is what Always think of us. We're soft and delicate. FFS.

I think I might write in pretending to be a transman and complaining about the scented towels, which force me to smell girly when I identify as all male. Transphobic!!

Wonder if Always would finally get rid of the perfume?

I think I might write in pretending to be a transman and complaining about the scented towels, which force me to smell girly when I identify as all male. Transphobic!!

Wonder if Always would finally get rid of the perfume?

Do it!

Though the cynic in me worries they'd simply bring out a range of gender neutral scented ones which smell suspiciously like Lynx. Possibly the only thing that could smell worse than the poundshop car air freshner fragrance they currently use.