Pantone create new colour red based on...

[StylishDuck]

...periods. Yep. They want to "embolden people who menstruate regardless of gender to embrace this natural bodily function" or something like that.

At least the article itself and the person quotes from ActionAid seem to be aware that only women and girls menstruate.

amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/29/pantone-launches-new-shade-of-red-to-end-menstruation-stigma

Has the person who came up with that colour, ever actually seen a period..? Mine ranges from pink to black and all sorts of shades in between, sometimes all in the one huge stringy jelly like 2 inch clot. It's more like how an ignorant bloke imagines a period looks like?

*more like what

@Deliriumoftheendless

I haven’t looked. Is it blue?

Was this colour mixed up by a prostate owner?

at least the guardian used the word woman and girls in the article.

But is pretty fucking desperate I even have to wonder and check if they have.

That colour says Christmas not period to me. Is everyone else getting Christmas once a month? What did I miss

Oh good I’m so pleased about this, because the other day I was sitting on the toilet looking at the contents of my sanitary towel and thinking ‘I wonder what that would look like on my kitchen walls.’
Now I can find out in a convenient and hygienic way, what wonderful times we live in.

@twoglassesofprosecco

Oh Pantone! I thought it was a Pantene hair dye at first. Phew.

So did I

Pantone is used by designers and printers - it's a colour standard. So you can communicate and end up with a consistent result. As a designer you design a logo or whatever and you tell your printer "I need that in period red please" and it will be exactly the same shade you showed to the client. Without this kind of standardisation you have differences in screens and printer calibrations so you will get a slightly darker colour, or more orange or more pink than you might have originally thought etc which can cause problems.

But yeah - bizarre - WTF.

Oh, just seen that it’s only for publishing and not for painting, disappointing. I suppose there’s always the Valspar colour match at B&Q...

It's not all blobby enough.

Blobby would make for an interesting textured effect on walls. Genius.

Oh what a shame it’s neither a hair dye nor (now I’ve read the explanations) a wall colouring.

@twoglassesofprosecco

Oh Pantone! I thought it was a Pantene hair dye at first. Phew.

That’s what I thought 🤣

It’s all about sales, though. I’m cynical and bored with this.

borntobequiet half watching TV and thought your ‘genius’ said ganache. 🤢

embolden people who menstruate to feel proud of who they are

Embolden and proud...by erasing women and reducing women to a bodily function.

Oh the irony.

It just reminds me of tomato soup 🤷‍♀️

That's the colour of old fashioned hospital blankets.

Not menstrual discharge.

I come from a generation which couldn't even say the word period so it's progress of a sort. Ironically, one of the euphemisms was having the painters in ...

On the Intimia site a blog post wonders why menstruation is so stigmatised as so many people menstruate. I could tell them but then I would have to use banned words such as biological sex (the answer, of course, is that male people do not menstruate and hence the stigma).

They want to "embolden people who menstruate regardless of gender to embrace this natural bodily function" or something like that.

The problem with that is - if they actually gave a fuck about women who identify as trans - is that any reminder of their female reproductive system worsens their dysphoria something terrible. So it comes as a great relief to gender dysphoric females when their periods stop after they start taking Testosterone.

Essentially what this means is that all this forced inclusivity triggers very many of the women and girls who suffer from gender dysphoria. I think it was Buck Angel and a few other female transsexuals who medically transitioned who firmly reject this stuff saying this only serves to other them, because men do not menstruate.

Honestly, imagine going through what transitioning female transsexuals go through to appear male, only to have these ... misguided fools remind them they will always be female.

Do they do a brown one to embolden people with IBS?

I forsee a whole twitter campaign in response (with pics): #NotMyPeriod

BTW, is that a mooncup in there too?

And I know I'm just one woman, but I have been menstruating for over 35 years and I've never seen that colour blood in a period. Or after birth. And I saw a pint of my blood hit the floor after my son was yanked out of me - not even fresh was it that colour.

Am presuming they're doing some sort of reverse ferret thing too and using the 🟥 colour from twitter.
Perhaps.. maybe reaching

Odd choice of bright red