Tampons for men

[Justme56]

https://vuokkoset.fi/en/my-body/vuokkoset-for-men-tampon/

Is this really a necessity or a company jumping on the bandwagon (note the blue packaging). Does anyone really care who buys tampons in this day and age. However the article does have some corkers. Did you know asexual people menstruate? No idea why they think they didn’t and there is even a paragraph on how to address a cross dresser - I have no idea what that has to with tampons.

This is perhaps a minor thing in the context of the article, but I really don't like how this person defines themselves as a LGBTQ+ specialist, when they're clearly just a TQ+ 'specialist', (whatever that may entail..)

I doubt they know much about LGB issues and it's very annoying to see such people claim to speak for those elements of the community.

It's bizarre but it doesn't bother me if someone wants to buy tampons in a "manly" box. I do get annoyed when people who were born male pretend to have periods and shove tampons up their bums. Mainly because I have awful periods with flooding and having people pretend to have something I find so debilitating is just awful.

Men's tampons? Oh, please fuck off.

Thanks for that 🤢 men in dresses using them for that is a thought I could.of gone without!

Intersex refers to when a person’s chromosomes, genitals or hormone function is not unambiguously typically male or female. Intersex may also be a gender identity for some people

Well they're clearly not "men's tampons" because they're more expensive. The marketing team know who the target audience is and they know that that target audience (women) is used to paying more than men for the same goods eg painkillers, razors.

Without the concept of marketing, gender ideology would likely not exist. Always makes me laugh when TRAs try and claim to be anti-capitalist.

But if sellers can find a cohort that will pay as much or even more than women, of course they're going to exploit the opportunity.

"Trans women may experience discrimination and have their womanhood criticized because they don’t have periods". How are Transwomen experiencing discrimination becuase they don't have periods?!

Come on! You know why. They don't have periods for a Reason, and that Reason has been sent down the Memory Hole. Don't do Thoughtcrime, kids.

Absolutely. Although the target audience will unwittingly be behaving in a very "gender conforming" way by purchasing them.

Great! Let's see how much of a commercial success this is.

Does some thinking on the size of the market and margins

Tampons - less popular than previously especially with younger 'people' due to environmental concerns and the greater availability of period pants and moon cups.

Marketing and packaging for such a niche group is more expensive. Supermarkets unlikely to stock them as a result.

Fabulous. Transmen you can buy these for a highly inflated price plus postage costs just so you can have a blue box and 'not be triggered'

Or you could just go to Asda and not get fleeced.

Your call 'guys'. You can be a mug or you can just get on with buying something that no one in their right mind will blink at you buying anyway.

I have read that some gay men have to use them as anal sex has damaged the sphincter muscle.

** Opening paragraph on the website:

Periods aren’t just an issue for women, as trans men and non-binary people may also have a womb and periods. That’s why Vuokkoset launches tampon for men during international Transgender Awareness Week.

So, because non/binary people have periods too, they've made tampons for MEN.

How does that solve the issue for someone who is NB? 😂

If true, it could apply to everyone who has anal sex

Bizarre. But then I suppose no more bizarre than women's razors (which are exactly the same as the men's razors, except pastel colours and more expensive).

I guess it's for people who don't take hormones but still identify as men?

Attention seeking bullshittery at its finest.

I expect we can look forward to the marketing of tampons for non-binary people, in yellow, white, purple and black packaging.

I think I have the currently correct colours there.

One day someone will point out that the emperor has no clothes on.

I actually think that that's what they want. How else would anyone know how special they are?

I would hope most trans females aren't so divorced from reality that they'd waste their money on this. Anyhow, what's the point, you can buy reusables and be done with it, or take the mini-pill.

Otherwise, the company is basically laughing all the way to the bank having taken advantage of gullible women.

I did not know this...will buy razors from the men's section now!

Ages ago a couple of posters said they used safety razors - as I wanted a non disposable non plastic one I bought one and it’s been great.

Do none of them realise many tampons already come in a blue box?

"Trans women may experience discrimination and have their womanhood criticized because they don’t have periods".

What, like women on the Pill may experience discrimination and have their womanhood criticized because they don’t have periods? Or like pregnant women may experience discrimination and have their womanhood criticized because they don’t have periods? Or menopausal women? Or ill women? Or women under severe stress?

What a load of navel-gazing bollocks.

No. All the women I listed experience discrimination and have their womanhood criticized because they are women. Transwmen have their 'womanhood' criticized because they are men.