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I've just read that always are changing its packaging, so it becomes inclusive.
Yet the metro are running the story and we are not allowed to say anything that would harm or upset the Lgbt community.
I'm actually lost for word's as to why sanitary products would be used by none fully transgender. Yet when are no offence, only thing that normally doesn't change is the voice.
Could someone please make me look less thick on how this as come about.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sounds like guerilla marketing to me. Get everyone on social media talking about them"
I've never seen a guerilla wearing one, Attenborough never mentioned that.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sounds like guerilla marketing to me. Get everyone on social media talking about them
I've never seen a guerilla wearing one, Attenborough never mentioned that. "
Or a griller for that matter... |
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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago
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When I google it, the daily mail, the sun and russia today turn up as the sources. No disrepect OP but isn't it a perfect story to provoke outrage.
If the manufacturers changes the logo, does it make you any less of a woman? |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"I've just read that always are changing its packaging, so it becomes inclusive.
Yet the metro are running the story and we are not allowed to say anything that would harm or upset the Lgbt community.
I'm actually lost for word's as to why sanitary products would be used by none fully transgender. Yet when are no offence, only thing that normally doesn't change is the voice.
Could someone please make me look less thick on how this as come about.
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It's the removal of the Venus symbol. Transmen who haven't fully transitioned may still need to use the products.
I don't see why it's a considered a big deal or PC gone mad. Brands change their packaging all the time. This is less cynical than turning everything into a Gay Pride rainbow with nothing LGBTQ+ friendly about the product or the company.
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By *adeiteWoman
over a year ago
Poole, but up in lincs for a bit |
"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area. "
If they're transitioning to male and havent had full gender reassignment then they would still need pads and tampons. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
If they're transitioning to male and havent had full gender reassignment then they would still need pads and tampons. "
But where does the blood come from?
Sorry I'm just curious. |
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area. "
Women to men: not that difficult to understand really.
I just feel "real" women will be an endangered species soon. |
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Can't say I've ever noticed the logo. I just pick up a pack & fling them in trolley, use when needed.
There is a growing "thing" to turn everything to a neutral instead of gender based but for things like this why bother.
Your biology doesn't give a monkeys what's on the product,it's color nor what you dress or identify as.
You don't need to explain why your buying them to staff or anyone else. Regardless of what you look like.
They're for practicalities. Period. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
If they're transitioning to male and havent had full gender reassignment then they would still need pads and tampons.
But where does the blood come from?
Sorry I'm just curious. "
The uterus that hasn't been removed yet.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Trans men often still have periods. Sanitary protection is for everyone who needs it.
The stuff still does the same job, no matter what it's called. "
Absolutely this. I for one never give the package a thought tbh |
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
If they're transitioning to male and havent had full gender reassignment then they would still need pads and tampons.
But where does the blood come from?
Sorry I'm just curious. "
They are anotomical women with all the working bits before they have surgery. |
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
Women to men: not that difficult to understand really.
I just feel "real" women will be an endangered species soon."
I'm a cis woman and I'm utterly unthreatened by trans people. It takes nothing away from my identity. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
Women to men: not that difficult to understand really.
I just feel "real" women will be an endangered species soon."
There are other brands and I'm sure some will consider making "real" women a brand selling point.
There are more cis-women than there will ever be trans-women.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
If they're transitioning to male and havent had full gender reassignment then they would still need pads and tampons.
But where does the blood come from?
Sorry I'm just curious.
The uterus that hasn't been removed yet.
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Oh of course sorry. I was thinking a biological man becoming a woman.
Got a bit confused. |
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I came here to find out why, rather than ask on the metro, as well there is more lgbt people here than there. Gies to show you try and understand the lgbt and transgender and get a mountain of abuse in they wonder why people become so disinterested. |
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"I came here to find out why, rather than ask on the metro, as well there is more lgbt people here than there. Gies to show you try and understand the lgbt and transgender and get a mountain of abuse in they wonder why people become so disinterested. "
What abuse? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I didn’t see abuse.
But yeah the packaging change won’t impact me as long as products work, but if it makes someone else feel more included, why not? Packages change all the time. - Mrs |
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Mumsnet is a bit abusive towards what I asked. I didn't disrespect the lgbt or transgender in asking.
Looking at other newspapers it's becoming very less understanding in some comments.
As I said I saw it from the metro and they put a delectation regarding transphbic comments etc |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"I came here to find out why, rather than ask on the metro, as well there is more lgbt people here than there. Gies to show you try and understand the lgbt and transgender and get a mountain of abuse in they wonder why people become so disinterested. "
I'm sorry if anything I have said has been taken as abuse towards you?
The story is clear that two people made a complaint about the use of the Venus sign. That came from a view that some won't identify with the Venus sign and could feel the product is excluding them.
That made Proctor and Gamble's Always team consider their packaging and decide to make the change.
My view, as described, is that packaging changes all the time and it's an easy trans-inclusion win. I don't see saying that as abuse but if you meant you wanted to understand something else then I'm not sure what I, or anyone else, could have responded that you would accept as in the spirit of your thread.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Mumsnet is a bit abusive towards what I asked. I didn't disrespect the lgbt or transgender in asking.
Looking at other newspapers it's becoming very less understanding in some comments.
As I said I saw it from the metro and they put a delectation regarding transphbic comments etc "
Ah! reply + quote is your friend here. I called out the Mumsnet comment.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm not sure it makes much difference to me as a person. But may make someone else's day.
Can't say it bothers me, as long as they still work as advertised  "
Exactly this. It's still the exact same product and does the same thing, so what's the problem with allowing non binary people and trans men who still have periods to feel less awful when they have to buy them?
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"I'm not sure it makes much difference to me as a person. But may make someone else's day.
Can't say it bothers me, as long as they still work as advertised
Exactly this. It's still the exact same product and does the same thing, so what's the problem with allowing non binary people and trans men who still have periods to feel less awful when they have to buy them?
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I couldn't agree more. Especially as the mother of a trans son.
It's packaging... if changing it helps why would anyone see it as a negative? |
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I'm amazed that people are bothered by the packaging of a sanitary product. What sort of person worries about this sort of shit??? I've got far more going on in my life. Thank goodness! |
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"I've just read that always are changing its packaging, so it becomes inclusive.
Yet the metro are running the story and we are not allowed to say anything that would harm or upset the Lgbt community.
I'm actually lost for word's as to why sanitary products would be used by none fully transgender. Yet when are no offence, only thing that normally doesn't change is the voice.
Could someone please make me look less thick on how this as come about.
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I can assure you, men have been using tampons for years. |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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This is the problem when too many people start calling themselves activists, everything becomes a battleground. They just end up shooting their cause in the foot and undoing a good deal of the hard and important work people before them have done. |
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"I'm amazed that people are bothered by the packaging of a sanitary product. What sort of person worries about this sort of shit??? I've got far more going on in my life. Thank goodness!"
So true. They could make it blue camo print with pictures of cars and football on for all I care. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've never noticed the venus symbol. Happy for them to change the packaging.
The story about the bloke going to the shop to get his girlfriend tampons was funny. He asked her if she wanted lemon or lime.
I wish they'd stop sexualising tampon adverts though. Upskirt pics of a woman in a short tennis skirt. Close up shot of a woman's arse in tight white shorts on a bike.  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"I've never noticed the venus symbol. Happy for them to change the packaging.
The story about the bloke going to the shop to get his girlfriend tampons was funny. He asked her if she wanted lemon or lime.
I wish they'd stop sexualising tampon adverts though. Upskirt pics of a woman in a short tennis skirt. Close up shot of a woman's arse in tight white shorts on a bike. "
It's almost as if the ads aren't meant for us.
I never did manage to paraglide or any of the other things I was supposed to be able to do using particular brands. Plus, I never managed to produce blue menstrual blood.
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
If they're transitioning to male and havent had full gender reassignment then they would still need pads and tampons.
But where does the blood come from?
Sorry I'm just curious. "
Their physical bodies at birth are female but they feel male, some have surgery to fully transition some don't
If they still have a uterus they'll still need hygiene products.
The product itself is the same so a logo change is nothing to get all wound up over IMHO.
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
Women to men: not that difficult to understand really.
I just feel "real" women will be an endangered species soon."
"Real" is a fully subjective term.
It's all about what YOU define as a woman and there are as many opinions as there are people.
"Real" is not useable here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Sorry if I'm being thick but how do trans men have periods?
Would you not need a womb?
I'm not very educated in this area.
Women to men: not that difficult to understand really.
I just feel "real" women will be an endangered species soon.
"Real" is a fully subjective term.
It's all about what YOU define as a woman and there are as many opinions as there are people.
"Real" is not useable here."
Real woman isn't a subjective term. A real woman is anyone who is physically a woman. Anyone who isn't, isn't a woman. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've just read that always are changing its packaging, so it becomes inclusive.
Yet the metro are running the story and we are not allowed to say anything that would harm or upset the Lgbt community.
I'm actually lost for word's as to why sanitary products would be used by none fully transgender. Yet when are no offence, only thing that normally doesn't change is the voice.
Could someone please make me look less thick on how this as come about.
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In what way does it really matter though. The shit people worry about baffles me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Maybe the company are just going through a period of change.
People need to take a chill pill. At the end of the day they arent asking you directly for your blood.
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Period of change. I see what you did there. |
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I do get that I'm as far away as possible from the product demographic but...
If it makes a single person feel a tiny bit more included, and doesn't actively hurt anyone, then how can it possibly be a bad thing?
Anyone who previously used the product still can, so I can't figure out who loses from this.
Genuinely not a criticism of anyone who has posted previously-I just don't get how there is any negative to this. |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
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Honestly I couldn't give a shit, they can sell them in paper bags if they like, as long as I can still buy them. I really can't see any negatives to them changing the packaging. Its inconsequential to most but may have a positive impact on some. |
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