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"boycott Always sanitary towels for removing the Venus logo"

  • 21-10-2019 3:14pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    :pac:
    Many Twitter users have vowed to boycott Always sanitary towels for removing the Venus logo in response to trans-rights campaigners saying men use them too. The Venus symbol, the female sexual identity mark, featured on all of the products wrapping.
    The brand, however, decided to remove the symbol after pressure from trans activists. The activists claim the female symbol is inappropriate as not all people who menstruate identify as female.

    Ben Saunders, 18, prompted the move and contacted Always, part of the Procter & Gamble company, in June complaining about the sign. Ben revealed on Twitter he had contacted Always in June about the brand ‘discriminating’ towards transgender customers, remarking on he female symbol.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/many-vow-to-boycott-always-sanitary-towels-for-removing-venus-logo-in-response-to-trans-rights-campaigners/ar-AAJ6WT0?ocid=spartanntp

    This world is mad :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I wonder what kind of lives these people live if they put so much energy into something so bloody trivial.

    Stop giving into these god damned lunatics.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    Bending to these types of demands creates more fuel to them to push other daft demands on companies etc to appease certain groups. Smh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭B-D-P--


    "Many Twitter Users"

    Roughly translates to MSN has a slow news day so lets pull something ****e to get people to share our stories.


  • Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


    I wonder what kind of lives these people live if they put so much energy into something so bloody trivial.

    Stop giving into these god damned lunatics.

    Lunatics have feelings too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Most transgender people couldn't care less about the venus symbol on a packet of sanitary towels. This move isn't driven by the trans community, it's a small cohort of bullies who want everyone to conform to their extreme beliefs.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Be nice if the outrage fücknuggets on all sides of these tedious campaigns decided to boycott the internet. For ever, preferably.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!


    For mopping up after the 'op'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Think we need to take that talking head’s advice and start cracking each other’s skulls open to feast on the goo inside. IT’S TIME.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!


    For mopping up after the 'op'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!


    For mopping up after the 'op'.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!

    I didn't get this either, but it's the other way round I think, "identify as men"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I wonder what kind of lives these people live if they put so much energy into something so bloody trivial.

    I know. I’m envious almost. These are privileged people with comfortable lives.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    This world is mad :pac:

    Yeah, but no need to lose the rag over it.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,888 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I wouldn't be at all surprised if that media source just invented this story for click bait...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    So what lady sanitary products will have a feature a hairy chested man to make men claiming to be women feel at home


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I wonder what kind of lives these people live if they put so much energy into something so bloody trivial.

    Stop giving into these god damned lunatics.

    We just need a war , a big fcukin' war not a little one.
    One that wipes out generations and we can just start again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Wait, hang on.

    Is the people boycotting it we're annoyed at or the people who got the symbol removed?

    Kind of nice seeing the trans lads kick off for a change, it always seems to be the women.

    Mind you they are on the rag so it's probably that.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Phew, I can start using them for comedy purposes now.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!

    Is it women who identify as men so therefore still menstruate or something? I dunno, I got a headache trying to figure it out. Minus fun. I'll boycott them in a few months when I actually need to use them again! Or, I just won't care or remember by then :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Gatling wrote: »
    So what lady sanitary products will have a feature a hairy chested man to make men claiming to be women feel at home

    FTM not the other way around.

    Trans man - born female

    Trans woman - born male

    Asking for the removal of the Venus logo - mental


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,031 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Gatling wrote: »
    So what lady sanitary products will have a feature a hairy chested man to make men claiming to be women feel at home

    I think it's the women identifying as men that have the problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I read somewhere that a man who transitions to a woman gets some sort of monthly fluctuation in hormones?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Phew, I can start using them for comedy purposes now.

    Go on...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Feisar


    We just need a war , a big fcukin' war not a little one.
    One that wipes out generations and we can just start again.

    I could be a spy, born in '84 I'd be seen as a Millennial.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Go on...
    You know how people think it's hilarious to cover peoples desks in post it notes.
    Used sanitary towels can be used now as they are no longer Venus inspired.









    Also, does this mean the men area allowed to roller-blade and windsurf whilst wearing white shorts now?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    You know how people think it's hilarious to cover peoples desks in post it notes.
    Used sanitary towels can be used now as they are no longer Venus inspired.

    You know, I'm not sure what direction I was expecting that to go but it was not that :pac:


    Also, does this mean the men area allowed to roller-blade and windsurf whilst wearing white shorts now?

    Yes but trampolining in white shorts is where I would personally draw the line. That is sacred and only ciswomen are allowed do it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    I'm confused:confused: I haven't a breeze who to be irate at!!!!


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    You know, I'm not sure what direction I was expecting that to go but it was not that :pac:





    Yes but trampolining in white shorts is where I would personally draw the line. That is sacred and only ciswomen are allowed do it.


    Hear hear. Consensus has been agreed.
    Reason will prevail.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ...Yes but trampolining in white shorts is where I would personally draw the line. That is sacred and only ciswomen are allowed do it.

    Not when you've got an arse as good as mine, dearie! :D

    Oh and, come on the winner and fuck the begrudgers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    I identify as a brush... will people stop using me to sweep things under the carpet :D

    It's mad....Ted !!


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ada Rich Salesman


    i think the boycotters are right. stand up against female erasure

    on a lighter note

    https://i.redd.it/qrs1jw5hypt31.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    bluewolf wrote: »
    i think the boycotters are right. stand up against female erasure

    on a lighter note

    https://i.redd.it/qrs1jw5hypt31.jpg

    This is one of those rare times where I think both sides are complete fuckwits. There are just layers of “WTF?” with that story.

    My general reaction:

    Somebody campaigned to have the Venus symbol removed? WTF? #1

    Who cares about the Venus symbol so much? WTF? #2

    *googles Venus symbol as I don’t even know what it looks like*

    Somebody campaigned to have the Venus symbol reinstated? WTF? #3

    Why are people getting so bothered about something so tiny? WTF? #4


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ada Rich Salesman


    Why are people getting so bothered about something so tiny? WTF? #4

    it's a symptom of a lot more going on


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    Just when you think you have heard it all. Completely insane.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    I want to identify as the artist formerly known as Prince.

    prince-brandmark-logo.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Del2005 wrote: »
    I think it's the women identifying as men that have the problem.

    They should grow a pair , suck it up and be a man.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Checks date, then realises EVERYDAY is fools day these days :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    The irony in it all is thats its a former woman, asking for the womens venus symbol to be removed. Because i want to be an apache helicopter and have it on products i buy to affirm my switch to apache helicopter because im so insecure about my gender identity


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Why the hell are trans men using them? They don't menstruate!

    Still wet themselves at the prospect they never will!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    I want to identify as the artist formerly known as Prince.

    prince-brandmark-logo.jpg

    Too far!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    I want to identify as the artist formerly known as Prince.

    prince-brandmark-logo.jpg

    Permabear Nevermind


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Who cares about the symbol. Boycott Always because they recently added a fcukload of disgusting perfume that smells like cologne made from distilled grannies to their big comfy night time pads and now they make yer fanny itch like the blazes. Blithering idiots!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,358 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    You know, I'm not sure what direction I was expecting that to go but it was not that :pac:





    Yes but trampolining in white shorts is where I would personally draw the line. That is sacred and only ciswomen are allowed do it.

    It would be a brave woman to go trampolining in white shorts while on her period. Especially after having kids which isnt great for the pelvic floor :D

    But yes, it's just a stupid symbol but as bluewolf said, it's a symptom of a bigger problem of 'woman', when applied exclusively to biological females, being a dirty word these days. Or anything that relates exclusively to women such as activists also pushing for terms such as "chestfeeding" and "menstruator". In order to include a tiny number of people, pretty much the entire sex must be excluded and erased apparently

    Funny how they listened to this one person when all the women who have been complaining about the scented products are ignored.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    It's out of control and it's just a symptom of a much bigger problem. Men who identify as women dominating women's sports because nobody is willing to point out that they have a physical advantage over women, that they aren't good enough to compete at the male level in events, that a man is not a woman no matter what. Don't give me nonsense about intersex. Introduce trans categories in sports and stop allowing people who say they identify as a gender they weren't born as to compete.

    Making toilets and changing rooms gender neutral leaving females feeling vulnerable because a man who identifies as a woman doesn't want to change in the male areas or use the mens toilets. Allowing convicted rapists to change their gender to female and serve their time in a women's prison if they say they identify as female. The list goes on and on and on. It's madness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    If you menstruate, you are female.

    I don't care what people identify as. If they want a gender reassignment they can go and get one and when fully "reassigned" stop menstruating as a result.
    Gender reassignment synthetically alters a person's biology and does change gender from a functional perspective at least.

    Being biologically one gender and choosing to identify as another is as mind-mindbogglingly stupid as it is scientifically impossible. Countries may as well legalise selling water with labels saying it's wine.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    sdanseo wrote: »
    If you menstruate, you are female.

    I don't care what people identify as. If they want a gender reassignment they can go and get one and when fully "reassigned" stop menstruating as a result.
    Gender reassignment synthetically alters a person's biology and does change gender from a functional perspective at least.

    Being biologically one gender and choosing to identify as another is as mind-mindbogglingly stupid as it is scientifically impossible. Countries may as well legalise selling water with labels saying it's wine.

    There was a disturbing case last month where a woman gave birth then changed her gender and wanted to be identified on the child's Birth Certificate as being the child's father. Thankfully she lost. Most people, including myself, have no problem with someone believing they are a different gender to the one they were born with, but this stuff is gone too far and there is going to be a hell of a backlash. Teenagers being given double mastectomies, little kids of 4 years old being allowed to believe that they're something they aren't just because they like dresses and dolls doesn't make a little boy a little girl. A lot of this stuff is pushed by mothers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    First the cross was airbrushed off Lidl's greek product range (must have offended someone),
    now it's the Venus cross type logo, is taken off lady products.
    What's next, roadsigns displaying crossings ahead?

    FWIW I'm offended by boards shade of blue on their branding, it looks like PANTONE Blue 072 and simply I don't like this, it's offensive.
    Would much rather have Reflex Blue 281, which is more suitable. If someone can escalate that ASAP!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    This will be the era our grandchildren will laugh about.


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