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Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!

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KhaleesiOfChaos · 17/02/2022 22:34

Cheeky Pants are selling period pants for children. Not girls. And using a photo of what very much looks like a couple of boys to me.

My first thought was logically perhaps they're targeting the incontinence / bed-wetter market, but the copy clearly refers to children having periods etc.

No no no no no.

Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!
Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!
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ikeepseeingit · 17/02/2022 23:22

Yeah, I can't see that on my laptop either. I suspect it's either bad mobile design or a glitch, not a purposeful ' boys can have periods' thing.

Witheringtong · 17/02/2022 23:23

I'm on the US site and I get what OP can see. If I click the link I'm taken to a page that says ''It's a fact that children are starting their periods earlier these days. '', all the products are modelled by teenage girls.

www.cheekypants.com/

www.cheekypants.com/children-period-pants.html

Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!
kittensinthekitchen · 17/02/2022 23:23

It's on the front page of the website

www.cheekypants.com

About halfway down - that photo with text over it saying "Children period pants"

Whitefire · 17/02/2022 23:26

This is what you get if you click on the demographic filter: Women (1)

Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!
Lysianthus · 17/02/2022 23:32

@Doubletoilandtrouble

I have two children around 10-11, one has a penis the other one doesn’t…

If any (or both) suddenly start to bleed from their genitalia, should I buy the period pants or get a doctor’s appointment? And how do I know what do do for each one?

Smile I despair too
Whitefire · 17/02/2022 23:34

Absolutely has Children's Period Pants over the picture of the children on the stairs.

I am more annoyed that they are labelled as "gender neutral" no they are unisex. I'm not even sure that is a great selling point, having had a late bed wetter boys and girls need padding in different places.

I remember the days of separate boy and girl nappies.

Halloweenrainbow · 17/02/2022 23:36

There seems to be a number of unusual image choices on this website.

Here's a happy customer seemingly outdoors gardening in her sun hat and incontinence pants!

Period Pants for 'children' using a photo of boys - WTF?!
Whitefire · 17/02/2022 23:39

If I wasn't even going to bother with trousers I may as well just skip the pants as well and save on the washing.

Georgeskitchen · 17/02/2022 23:41

What does a picture of a couple of 8-ish year old boys have to do with period pants?

TheOrigRights · 18/02/2022 00:10

I've just been on the website and went straight to the different sorts of protection menus. The boys pic is under the incontinence section.

The incontinence section has women, men, children and (so far) all the pics I've seen under the period menu show women.

Also, if you go to the 'kits' section, under periods, you can filter for demographic and they only have women.

I would really like to think that they have not gone all woke and fucking ridiculous and that the boy pic on the home page is a mistake.

TheOrigRights · 18/02/2022 00:16

The pelvic toner says "Secret Whispers - Pelvic Floor Toner for Women" not "for vagina havers"

LunaLights · 18/02/2022 00:19

Are “boys” mentioned at all, or just “children”?

SD1978 · 18/02/2022 00:29

@Savingpeoplehuntingthings - you'll be bloody (excuse the pun) hard pushed to find any brand that hasn't erased all use of female centred language, because we can't support women publicly.

Suzyinthesummertime · 18/02/2022 00:33

Hopefully a mistake..

Kanaloa · 18/02/2022 02:25

@DoubleYouOhEmAyEn

These are clearly period pants. For children. They mean girl children. Females. Anyone that young should not have transitioned, they lack capacity.
Even if a bit that age had transitioned, they surely still wouldn’t require period pants? For obvious reasons.

Anyway seems a bit daft. I don’t know if this is something that even required a photo, except perhaps a photo of the item. Does anyone need to see a photo of a little girl wearing period pants before purchasing them? Surely just a photo of the item would suffice.

Kanaloa · 18/02/2022 02:25

But if they’re also bed wetting pants maybe they accidentally used the same photo since a pp said that photo is also used for the bed wetting section.

FOJN · 18/02/2022 06:31

This story is not about children but about a NZ company who featured models who did not menstruate in a recent ad campaign. Only one of the four models in the campaign "identified" as a woman.

www.womenarehuman.com/period-underwear-company-profiles-male-who-gets-a-period/

Feelingoktoday · 18/02/2022 06:41

Complain. It’s all we can do. And not buy the products.

Theunamedcat · 18/02/2022 06:46

@MichelleScarn

Oh and they're using the 'girls having pillow fights, cos that's what they do' trope.

Never had one, have I been deprived?

Pillow fights are overrated they can fucking hurt especially feather pillows they can hit like a brick who thinks that's a great idea
Halloweenrainbow · 18/02/2022 07:00

[quote FOJN]This story is not about children but about a NZ company who featured models who did not menstruate in a recent ad campaign. Only one of the four models in the campaign "identified" as a woman.

www.womenarehuman.com/period-underwear-company-profiles-male-who-gets-a-period/[/quote]
That's interesting. There's maybe a demand for some sort of pad or protection product for people transitioning and experiencing hormone related discharge. I'm sure period products will do the job when nothing else is available but it's not really the same thing and it's odd that it's marketed that way imo.

CatherinaJTV · 18/02/2022 07:12

a) you are assuming that these are boys
b) and yes, children get periods - many girls start at 10 or 11, average age of menarche in the UK is about 12.7 years, when the girl is still very much a child.

TooWeirdToLiveTooRareToDie · 18/02/2022 07:17

For me, the image and period text doesn’t appear on the cheekywipes.com homepage but does on the cheekypants.com homepage.

It’s not in the product listing page as period pants though, it’s in the incontinence section.

Feelingoktoday · 18/02/2022 07:26

@CatherinaJTV

a) you are assuming that these are boys b) and yes, children get periods - many girls start at 10 or 11, average age of menarche in the UK is about 12.7 years, when the girl is still very much a child.
That’s not the point. There is no mention of girls.
Doubletoilandtrouble · 18/02/2022 07:29

you are assuming that these are boys

Oh no, not at all. I have made zero assumptions. That would be awful. And I am fully aware that children start periods early. We are completely on the same page here.

I have two children around 11 myself. I am just confused as to whether I should buy period pants or book a GP appointment if they suddenly start bleeding from their genitalia? One of them has a penis and the other doesn’t but I understand that this is irrelevant these days? As transwomen also buy pads and period pants?

Is the period pants for the one who prefers pink maybe? Hmmm….

Fairislefandango · 18/02/2022 07:32

a) you are assuming that these are boys
b) and yes,childrenget periods - many girls start at 10 or 11, average age of menarche in the UK is about 12.7 years, when the girl is still very much a child.

Human beings are mostly very very good at yelling whether other human beings (children or adults) are male or female by looking at them.

Nobody is disputing the age. They are disputing the idea that all children have periods. Only girls and women have periods, as you well know.