The Telegraph on the Waitrose “feminine products” absurdity:
Waitrose has rebranded its “feminine care” section after receiving a complaint claiming it was not inclusive of transgender people.
Sanitary products will no longer be referred to as female following a complaint which said “not all people who have periods are women”.
Except, of course, they are. That’s kind of the whole point. It’s kind of the whole point with cows and ewes and hens and mares and it’s kind of the whole point with women. Without that whole point there are no women or men. We’re animals first of all, and we’re divided into the egg-havers and the fertilizers. Without that we don’t exist at all.
The section rebrand came after an internal complaint said it was “disappointing” that sanitary products were referred to as “feminine care”.
Well, frankly, it’s also disappointing that the Telegraph is silly enough to use the vague meaningless “sanitary products” instead of, say, menstrual products. “Sanitary products” could just mean bottles of floor-cleaning liquids and similar. The issue here is menstruation, not some vague nameless detergent.