Sanitary products for people who menstruate

[jellyandiscream]

Sorry for the daily fail link but has anyone seen this? Sanitary products for people who menstruate from Superdrug. What were they thinking?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8697841/Shoppers-ridicule-woke-Superdrug-launches-sanitary-products-people-menstruate.html

I read someone today say that "people who menstruate" is more respectful because saying "women" is disrespectful to women who no longer have periods. And "transphobes" don't think women who no longer have periods are women.
As a woman who no longer as periods, that's a load of fucking shit. Just in case you were wondering.

Call them tampons and sanitary towels and don't bother to say which of the umpty-zillion gender-identities they are for, and the problem goes away. Nobody who doesn't need them is going to buy them except for someone who needs them, in any case.

Or not more than once. It's money wasted if you have no use for them.

Boots seem to have managed this with their non-sex-labelled tampons, and so have Tampax though the latter are on dodgy ground with their claim "Tampax Compak tampons have been gynaecologically tested" it is probably triggering in some way or other for someone somewhere.

If they were genuinely concerned about the feelings of people who struggle with the reality of being female, pointing out just how many periods they're likely to have and how many tampons and towels they're likely to get though maybe isn't exactly helpful.

Oh come off it Quagaars.

@bellinisurge

I read someone today say that "people who menstruate" is more respectful because saying "women" is disrespectful to women who no longer have periods. And "transphobes" don't think women who no longer have periods are women. As a woman who no longer as periods, that's a load of fucking shit. Just in case you were wondering.

Why do people make up such bollocks

It is a load of fucking shit

I can’t wait for my periods to stop

Just saw an ad for what used to be called Tena Lady - not just Tena and no sex mentioned Even through the male and female versions would need to be different surely (and Tena Men is on the shelf in the supermarket near me).

Is this new?

Call them tampons and sanitary towels and don't bother to say which of the umpty-zillion gender-identities they are for, and the problem goes away. Nobody who doesn't need them is going to buy them except for someone who needs them, in any case

Did the packaging ever say sanitary products were for women? I don't think so.

They are soooooo desperate to equate gender critical women with looney right wing fascists.
When this nonsense finally comes unstuck it's going be interesting to watch the backpedaling.

Thing is a lot of this type of stuff gets blamed on 'feminists'.

Which is unhelpful to say the least.

@ErrolTheDragon

If they were genuinely concerned about the feelings of people who struggle with the reality of being female, pointing out just how many periods they're likely to have and how many tampons and towels they're likely to get though maybe isn't exactly helpful.

I suspect you're right

DidoLamenting
Did the packaging ever say sanitary products were for women? I don't think so.

Wellllll.... On the website they are all listed under called "Feminine Hygiene", which is probably a bit sex-specific. Or used to be.

(where did that "called" come from, I thought I hadn't typed it)

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

DidoLamenting Did the packaging ever say sanitary products were for women? I don't think so.

Wellllll.... On the website they are all listed under called "Feminine Hygiene", which is probably a bit sex-specific. Or used to be.

I meant the packaging in the shop. It doesn't have the word "women" on it.

I don't think it needs it. What I find absurd is telling people that these products are for "people who menstruate"; that is as if a packet of sticking plasters felt obliged to tell us they are for "people who are bleeding" or bottled water carried the proud claim "for people who drink water".