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

How far off the mark are they??!! I don't want to be emboldened about my natural bodily function, I just want my gender specific functions not to hurt so bloody much!

@NeurotrashWarrior

My period doesn't identify as that colour. Period.

That's a PEPC.

(Period Exclusionary Pantone Colour)

I'm another who misread it and thought it was hair dye. As a redhead I was thinking "Oh great. "Period head" is going to be the next anti ginger insult we start hearing". So I am glad it isn't that!
But I agree, I never had a period that was that colour and I would have been worried if I had, as if it is blood, its definitely arterial!
It seems like one of those ideas that was possibly well intentioned but has failed spectacularly.

Well - first of all - relief that it's not a Pantene hair dye colour.

Secondly - if my period was that colour I would hit the emergency button.

That is the colour of what someone (i.e. looking through the male gaze) imagines a nice clean fresh period blood looks like.

But I'd also point out that there doesn't need to be a fucking Pantone colour for it to be destimgatized. I'm not ashamed of pooping - but I don't expect a colour range in in it.

Will they be doing a range of Pantone Period Mugs to hand out for women to take into their menstrual huts?

It's a cheap and offensive nod to pretending to be for women's rights that is about as far from reality as an entity can get from the reality of the crap women deal with.

I have not the slightest doubt that this is what The Board approved as their massive intervention when someone from marketing pointed out that periods are a big issue at the moment.

It's actually made me quite angry.

Is there a Semen colour too? No? The poor menz. Or is that its a ridiculous idea?

@twoglassesofprosecco

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

Same! I was thinking, that's never going to sell.

Reminds me of the story that the Ford Edsel flopped because the radiator grille put would-be buyers in mind of a vulva.

Is there a Semen colour too? No? The poor menz. Or is that its a ridiculous idea?

Please no!

I am now imagining the Pantone card like the Period one, but this one called Jizz with a little line drawing to match.

Also misread and thought it was hair dye and clicked the link to see what the actual colour would be.

Given that only designers and marketing people use Pantone colours and that they’re all numbers rather than names, what Is the actual point?

I’ve had savage periods for years - heavy, painful, messy - and not once has the colour looked like that. I DID once manage to splash a particularly messy period up the wall like paint. Still didn’t look like that though.

OK folks, find yours.... www.pantone.com/color-finder

I reckon I'm more of a Pantone 484 C

@DukeOfEarlGrey

I’ve had savage periods for years - heavy, painful, messy - and not once has the colour looked like that. I DID once manage to splash a particularly messy period up the wall like paint. Still didn’t look like that though.

I feel you! On a bad period I regularly leave the bathroom looking like a bloodbath has occurred. I've managed to splatter the floor, the walls, the furniture, the door, the door frame, the inside and outside of the toilet pan, the bathmat, why did I keep buying white ones ... still never seen that colour.

And I think if my post-partum spill had been that colour, the doctor and midwife would have done more than just try and jump out of the way.

Dude, wheres my menstrual cup?

@FFSFFSFFS
I'm not ashamed of pooping - but I don't expect a colour range in in it.

Will there be a bunch of clots in the pint?

They could do a whole range of Pantone bodily functions. "Morning Urine" would be a dark yellow, "Well hydrated Urine" would be a light straw colour, and then they could do a Bristol Stool Chart style range of poo colours.
My mum once ordered a car that was described in the brochure as "caramel" (early 80s!). When it arrived she took one look at it and said to the car salesman " that's not caramel, its shit-brown". A pantone chart would have been handy then

"Is there a Semen colour too? No? The poor menz. Or is that its a ridiculous idea?"

Tsk,, tsk. This is not inclusive as it is not only men who produce semen...

Who here has successfully managed to get their mooncup past their cervix into their uterus? Am I womanning wrong?

Weird. Just weird. And insulting.

@twoglassesofprosecco

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

Me too

Oh, it's a mooncup! I was worried that it was some sort of coil.

The most bizarre distopiean language. People who mentrate be proud of who they are (dispite being so ashamed that they aren't calling themselves a woman). So much oxymoron to get my head around.

So fucking weird and unnecessary

What's next, semen white? IBS brown?

Should women be roller-skating or skydiving whilst 'celebrating their exiting and powerful life force'?

I think they want to do something ‘worthy’. They don’t want to upset people or back the wrong horse.

So ‘women’ will be dangerous (too controversial).

Protecting children is too much of a downer.

DV is too saaaaad.

Rape - eowwwwww.

Babies - but what about people who can’t have a baby?

Breast cancer / cheat cancer. Prostate cancer / undercarriage cancer?

Anti bullying - that’s got to cause a pile on.

So slow handclap for Pantone. I will not go through all my design manuals and change everything to Process.

I think all you witty ladies have delivered punch lines before me... but it made me think if Fallow and Ball and period colours... is there a new range coming out?

Bodily fluids range - hmmmmm. 🤔