Men Create Pink ‘Period Gloves’ For ‘Discreetly’ Changing Tampons, Women Can’t Stop Making Fun Of Their Idea
A few men from Germany thought they had a wonderful idea for a product aimed primarily at women but it has completely backfired.
According to an Instagram post translated from German, these fellows lived with women back in 2010 and were horrified at the lack of a “good solution” for discreetly disposing of tampons and sanitary pads.
So a decade later, they launched Pinky Gloves—a product to be used specifically to avoid getting menstrual blood on one’s hands while swapping out products and to hide tampons from any sensitive souls who might look in the trash bin after them.
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The Pinky Gloves gained attention after Dr. Jen Gunter (who people call “Twitter’s resident gynecologist”) made a tweet about them.
Eventually, it snowballed into a huge wave of backlash, crashing into the German entrepreneurs. To their credit, the company acknowledged the criticism it has been receiving but didn’t say anything concrete.
Could things have ever gotten this far if they had asked for, received, and listened to input from women?
However, many women think Pinky Gloves are useless
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General practitioner, medical researcher, and founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research, Iris Gorfinkel, M.D., told Bored Panda the backlash online doesn’t surprise her. “Is it a useless product? I would suggest that it is. If we women do get blood on our hands after changing our menstrual products, we are likely to wash that off as we have done for the millennia.”
There are a lot more serious menstrual problems out there. Even figuring out what’s normal and what’s abnormal about the way you have your period can be a challenge. “Typically, normal periods last anywhere from 21 to 35 days, and of course, are influenced by things like stress, weight, exercise, and eating disorders,” Gorfinkel explained.
“They’re often accompanied by cramps, and cramping is normal to some degree, but some women experience cramps that are caused by uterine contractions and are of the same degree as when a woman is in labor. These can really be horrific. And a lot of women do not realize that cramps are easily and readily treatable with anti-inflammatories, like Naproxen, which is easily available over the counter. Or if they’re bad, one should see a doctor to make sure that there’s no pathology that could be causing it. For many, treating it with a birth control pill can be very helpful too.”
Another fairly common period problem is abnormal uterine bleeding. “Things like an ultrasound or screening for sexually transmitted infections may be helpful,” Gorfinkel said. “Just try to understand, is there another underlying problem? Could there be fibroids? Could there be endometriosis that’s responsible for this?”
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Then there’s the premenstrual syndrome or PMS. “Women [going through it] will often experience bloating, headache, breast tenderness, there can be mood swings, anxiety, and irritability, especially the week before the period.”
“This is easily treatable. A diary always helps an actual effect for any of these problems using a menstrual app is usually helpful as well; recording what exactly is happening and when during the cycle.”
Gorinkel also wanted to touch on infections. “sexually transmitted infections are extremely common, and a lot of women don’t realize they’re going on. So where there’s a lot of sexual partners or changing sexual partners, it’s always a good idea to get screened,” she said.
Even though the doctor personally suggests a screening every six months, different medical professionals might suggest different timeframes, but regular screening makes a lot of sense if the sexual partners are changing or if a woman’s body is sending her any signals that something goes wrong, like abnormal bleeding, painful intercourse, and so on. Plus, one has to keep in mind that half of the time sexually transmitted infections are asymptomatic. This makes getting checked regularly even more important.
“We have a lot of fish to fry in a visit, which is typically 15 minutes long with a primary care physician like me,” Gorfinkel said. “And I would suggest that using a Pinky Glove doesn’t even make the list.”
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As much as Iris tried to remain diplomatic, she thinks women won’t really benefit from this product. “There’s nothing foreign about a person touching their own body. Should we wash our hands after changing a menstrual product? Of course, we should. But do we need a glove? I think it’s just extra landfill, quite frankly.”
We already have plenty of things to make sure people get can through the inconvenience of menstruation, but accidentally touching blood isn’t high on the list of priorities.
In fact, some argue that increasing the stigma of menstruation by acting like the sight of a used tampon is so horrifying that an entire product needs to be created and carried around by half the population just to ensure no one will ever catch a glimpse of period blood in the trash is probably the opposite of helpful.
And it’s hard to disagree.
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Women told these men that they sometimes have trouble getting rid of tampons and pads and these dudes think that we need pink plastic gloves?! WE NEED TRASH BINS IN BATHROOMS! That's what we f*****g need. That is the problem. Not every toilet has a trash bin, be it somebody's private toilet or a public one, especially guys rarely have a trash bin in their toilet. TRASH BINS! doesn't need to be pink.
And even then... women kinda learn to deal with possibly missing trash cans/bags by carrying handy solutions (such as a small plastic trash bag intended for the disposal of menstrual stuff). Like... I don't need to buy a stupid overpriced glove! I'll just take one of these super cheap plastic trash bags that I buy anyway for my bathroom trash bin at home! And if I wanted a glove, I'd buy a pack of these latex ones, which already exist in several sizes! These pink gloves solve a problem that women don't usually have with a solution that already exists...... good lord.
Load More Replies...The gloves aren't a solution for touching blood, they're for "discreet disposal" - i.e. a problem that only existed in their minds after they started living with two women and had to experience used tampons themselves. They don't care if women have to touch their blood, they care that men have to see it afterwards.
Okay. But making such a product for such a purpose only adds to periods being stigmatized. This is a trash product. No matter how you look at it, it's period shaming.
Load More Replies...In response to pinky period gloves, I’m going to market masterbation mittens. Colors include “I’m-so-blue” and “can’t-see-me-camo”. Anybody want to donate to this startup campaign?
Don't forget to hear from the Men advisory board. As they did with their women advisory board.
Load More Replies...Oh I think the real issue here, and we - stupid women - don't understand it, is that we throw tampon/pad into the trash and if don't wrap it CORRECTLY our precious sensitive unicorns may see our nasty blood. So, You know, it's a small price to pay for preventing men from life-threatening situations.
Thank you. These were my thoughts exactly. And you are absolutely 100% correct.
Load More Replies...Mansplaining at it's finest. I'm from Germany and had a very good time reading through the comments on their Instagram. The drugstore-chain already announced to take the product out of the shelves.
The whole world: WE NEED TO REDUCE PLASTIC!! Dudes of "Pinky Gloves": Hold my beer!
I want to upvote this 100000x. How can anyone these days even seriously consider putting yet another disposable plastic product on the market! And an totally superfluous one at that.
Load More Replies...Sorry guys but that is a big hit and miss. Or better yet, an EPIC fail. Just a question, doesn't Germany have sanitary disposal units. Where I live you will find it quite difficult to find a toilet whether at the shops, entertainment events, parks, eateries etc that does not have a sanitary bin in each cubicle or at least one available in the girls bathroom. You wrap your tampon in toilet paper or your pad in the wrapper and place it in the bin. The lid is a bit like a parcel drop off in a post box, so you can't see inside when you lifet the lid. Some you don't even need to touch the lid, you wave your hand over a sensor and it automatically opens for you.
Of course we have. I think it's more about that men shouldn't be confronted with the "mess of menstruation" and so women should hide the bloody Details in the pink glove. That's a new form of prudish. Im just short of painting some pads and tampons bloody Red and put them on Display everywhere so men get used to it.
Load More Replies...I'd like to know who provided the 'positive feedback' they said they received when they came up with the idea. I imagine puzzled looking friends saying "I mean, technically yeah, but........"
Instead of wasting time with this, how about making a pad that has massive coverage, doesn't slip and is super absorbent for large women who have endometriosis? How about making a pad that doesn't leak in the middle of the night when your sleeping? How about making stalls a little bit bigger so you are whacking elbows in the wall trying to change a pad or tampon? And how about making the trash bins bigger than a cracker box in those stalls since the personnel that comes to clean the restrooms can't seem to remember that women go to the restrooms more often than men? This product is as bad a mansplaining how periods work.....
The advisory board must have been solely compromised of their two proud moms.
Give them some credit guys. They listened to some women complaining about a problem they knew nothing of before hand. And spent TEN YEARS thinking about this issue. So what if their "solution" wasn't really it? 😂
Maybe these guys could also "invent" gloves for wiping your ass, cleaning up semen, changing a baby's diaper and cleaning up cat sick. Must be pink. I'm female so I can't wear anything non-pink.
These bitches must not wash their hands after using the bathroom and they assume women are doing the same. Also they are too stupid to realize that the package from your next tampon or pad is how you wrap the used one. Just women don’t always wrap it well because it’s all in the trash anyway. This is just straight up pathetic and sexist too. They ought to be ashamed. Not only sexist but bad for the environment too. They should never get laid again for this bullshît.
A whole new level of stupid. I can't get over their smug self-satisfied faces at having made a product that no-one needed or wanted that doesn't even concern them. Honestly, what do they think bins are for, if not disposal of rubbish. Do they wear brown gloves to wipe their arses?
Brown gloves for arses, I just snort-laughed in the office...
Load More Replies...So~ I'm supposed to hold the used tampon/pad in my un-gloved hand while putting in a new tampon/pad onehanded? And are there enough gloves to put in the first w/out getting blood on my hand? What will I do when I'm allergic to any substance used for the gloves? Are they coming in other colours? Where are the gloves for men taking a pi$$? Where are the ones for taking a dump? And lastly we are constantly requesting to put down the luxury-tax off of hygienic articles for women. Is the pink-tax there to replace it? Isn't it enough to put on a pink-tax on everything other what is supposed to be used by women? =.=#
On top of just being a dumb idea, LOOK AT THOSE GLOVES!! I had better fitting gloves when I worked at Subway! I feel a paper cut forming in my vagina just THINKING about using those things!
FINALLY! A pink glove/bag to dispose of sanitary products! I've been just carrying my used tampon around with me, not knowing what to do! Ugh, seriously though, this is insulting. We can't even make sanitary products free yet, and now they want us to pay for this useless PINK glove? Gosh, I wish they'd make pink toilet paper so that we know which roll to use. (smh, *eye roll*) why do men even have the audacity to get involved with period products at all?
Yeah! But they were probably thought of (to men at least) as heroes for helping women with something that men don't experience. We don't even have that problem, they just created it to get money.
Load More Replies...I used to live with 4 roomates : 2 boys and 2 girls (3 including me). The guys never complains about seeing tampons/pads, used or unused. They probably didn't care. Why are these guys are "disturbed" by that?
They announced tiday that they would pull the pinky gloves off the market after all the negative comments. I'm glad they did.
Being from germany i feel deeply ashamed about what came out of my country. Even sadder than the idea is the fact that it was presented on a tv show where business ideas are pitched to investors (like any of thes "xyz got talent shows" acting as judges) and one actually wants to go with that idea. Bollocks.
These guys are really funny. Trying to sell an unnesessary and extremly overpriced product, claiming it is disposable (it's not, if you put a tampon or a pad in it) only because they can't see blood or something? I live with 3 other girls and none of them was "missing" such a scam product. But the funnyest part is not the whole conzept and bussines-plan - it is that they say "we understand now, we made a mistake, we will change" but keep deleting all negative comments on google. Since it startet! Everyday somebody sits there and deletes comments with 1 star. This is so poor, is alredy funny. Guys not having the balls to take it all.
Yes, because us women don't know how to wash our hands after we remove a pad or tampon. Really, though, this is just ridiculous.
Cause men know what women really need to proper menstruate... surely not! At first: I don't know a woman that need a glove to pull out the tampon or change the pad. Second: Toiletpaper is cheaper and available all the time to hide the tampon in the bin if necessary. Third: We're on to try to get rid of plastic, not produce even MORE plastic. This is just... Arg! And next please the BlueGloves for manly masturbation... @_@
I saw this last week on the German Höhle de Löwen (American Shark Tank becomes German Lion’s Den). Thought it was insulting two MEN had allegedly solved some sort of problem for WOMEN. And now these are on sale in local stores, $3 for 12.
We need to stop period shaming! Did they survey women when they did research into this issue; they seem to be telling women that they are solving a problem for them, without the problem actually existing, whilst also adding to plastic waste. If it's supposed to be discreet why is is bright barbie pink! They have missed the mark on so many levels!!
Men: "Ewwwww! Blood! Let's make an entirely unnecessary bit of overpriced plastic to wrap this biodegradable object in so we don't have to look at it. Also, we'll make it pink so women will know it's for them." - Women: "Dude, wtf?"
Am now going to invent a pair of super exclusive gloves for men to use when removing and disposing a condom. I'll make them camouflaged to keep up the male mystique....****satire***
Clearly women had no idea gloves existed until some nice men have finally made them in pink!
You all don't just wrap some toilet paper around it and toss it in the trash next to the toilet? Also, the gloves look extremely large so it looks more like they were made for men. Extra single use plastic being produced for no reason at all. I have never had an issue with disposing of tampon. Pull it out, wrap it up, toss it in the trash. Takes two seconds.
EXACTLY. Just use the little wrapper it comes in, and wash your hands. Fortunately, my middle school has little bins. But some dont. These gloves are useless.
Load More Replies...Maybe they thought that girls go to the toilet by couple because they change tampons and pads EACH OTHER ..so they need the gloves..🤦♀️
What a waste of even more plastic. All period products come w something to wrap used period products and the ones that don't get wrapped in toilet paper. I dont need a baggy plastic glove to dispose of my products every single time. Sometimes 8 times a day. No need for all that plastic. Plus the cost is way way way too high. How about we leave it up to women how we make period products we'll be happy to explain it all to men too so they understand. Pads can also be rolled up if there is nothing to wrap it in. Period underwear are a goddam godsend and I highly recommend them to anyone whose iffy about using them. If you don't want to but the high end ones for fear you won't like them. Try the Amazon ones for 14$. They're great especially for the nighttime. You can also use a pad in them for really heavy flows. They're easily rinsed then throw them in the washing machine
The two guys behind pinky gloves just announced on Insta that they will not continue with their start-up. They faced a massive shitstorm (quite understandable so) and - this I find pretty unsettling from the feminist perspective - death threaths. Death threats over some shitty product as patronising and unnecessary it may be seems a tad much.
Thank goodness! After millions of years of evolution, now women know what do to on their periods!
These guys are douchebags. The audacity to create something that is unnecessary. Women can wash the blood off their hands. Throw the used tampon and pad in the garbage wrapped in tissue. And so what if someone saw the period blood. There is nothing unnatural about a period
Isn't it funny how the only blood that doesn't come from violence is the one that seems to be most offensive to some people?
So men decided what women need in their lavatory stall. How about FREE TAMPONS AND PADS when we're caught out? (We can't all carry purses all the itme, folks, it's not allowed in the hospital staff here!) If you're not on a predictable pattern, for whatever reason, that sort of moment is way worse than not having *gloves*, for pity's sake. *FYI: Not all girls like hearts, or pink.
Not only did two idiots come up with this, it went through an entire process of approval and production. This is why we need more female leaders, board members, doctors, inventors, thinkers and much else. Men are dumb as s**t when it comes to female bodies and just one woman in a respected position in the process of turning this nightmarish product into reality, would have stopped this waste of time and plastic. Every last aspect of this product is just unfathomably awful!
Another stupid, pointless single use item. When are we going to learn! Also who TF looks and is grossed out by something in the trash.
If someone looks in the trash, they may as well expect to be grossed out.
Load More Replies...This reminds me of the recent massive failure of a company that tried to make a female version of Viagra, which massively bombed and now loads of investors (including celebrities) have lost a lot of money. Interestingly, the article about this was unable to name a single woman involved in this whole enterprise.
These men are obviously disgusted by menstruation so much that they can't stand the thought of us getting a little of our own blood on our hands. I wonder, do they wear gloves when they wipe their butt after they poop? 😂
wait until these guys hear about menstrual cups, wowee. idk, from the translations from instagram, it seems like they had good intentions, but as with a large number of sex toys designed for women, women were not actually consulted at any point and a lot of assumptions and stigma went into the design.
I had a hysterectomy last year due to heavy bleeding. This is useless.
This is rediculous ironic how im on my period reading this i think thats why its so stupid
Um, typical periods do not last between 21-35 days! Does she mean a typical cycle?
Think of the venture capital dufus who thought this was a good idea. Yikes.
The thing that really gets me, is that they didn't even size them for women's hands LOL.
It is not a surprise there were absolutely no women involved in this project.
Thankfully because of the outrage. Those men stopped selling this piece of crap and closed their business, yesterday.
I suppose a glove for changing tampons isn't a completely ridiculous idea, for times when one doesn't have access to water, for example while hiking (or a soldier during deployment, maybe? How would i know...). I would rather not touch my genitals with dirty hands, it is not hygienic. A glove could also indeed be useful for carrying such used sanitary products for later disposal, as I said, when one is hiking and there is no garbage bin around. That being said, as a product idea and marketing strategy, I think this is terrible, because such a product already exists - it is called "disposable gloves" and is widely available in many colors, sizes and materials. Perhaps "period gloves" would make sense if they were significantly cheaper than ordinary ones (because quality requirements are low), but apparently it is not the case.
We don't want or need "stylish and appealing" feminine hygiene products. Keep it simple and quit adding to the pink tax!
What is the point of this? Gloves exist! Also, women's flat?
I'm just glad they decided to put a stop to this ridiculous product 3 days ago. Say goodbye to Pinky!
Well, that's sweet of them, but I have no problem emptying my cup with bare hands, washing it with bare hands, and putting it back in with bare hands. It's just blood. Soap & water takes care of it. :)
If I wanted to avoid blood I would bring a regular glove. You use a previous wrapper and/or bit of TP to dispose of it more hygenically. Yes, I find it gross to see someone elses's used products but it is in the trash, esp the little trash inside the bathroom ( is that a thing in Gsrmany?) So no big deal. Nobody should have to see it in a regular trash so just wrap it up. It may be obvious what it is, no big deal, but you won't actually see the blood and it is just cleaner that way.
Why are we responding to these douches? I mean that in a masculine way as I am a mansplaining whisperer!
I’ll give them ONE piece of benefit of doubt - for women serving in the military, these might have a purpose while on active duty/training/tours, in situations where sinks hand wash etc. may not be available. That is the ONE TIME that they could come in handy. Every other scenario has better solutions x 1000.
A glove is a very good solution when in a public toilet. Your hands are never clean enough to remove a used tampon, so you use a clean glove. It doesn't have to be pink though.
I understand all the backlash they are getting, but wrapping tampons and pads cleanly is indeed insanely important for the poor cleaning personal who shouldn't touch everyone's blood all the time. So I get it that the best solution for this might not be a pink glove, but the idea itself (clean disposal of the sanitary products) isn't bad. (Or am I missing here something?)
There are sanitary disposal bins in most places, in women's bathrooms etc
Load More Replies...Ok, I can see it as a clean solution: wear the gloves, remove tampon and then inverse the glove over the tampon so you wouldnt actually have to touch the tampon at all. The tampon will also be wrapped so its hygienic disposal. But no one is ever gonna rmb to have this on hand when they change their tampon and I might as well get normal disposable gloves instead of pink overpriced ones.
I feel kinda bad for them, they tried to help women out with something that they couldn't relate to which is great, but in doing that they just misunderstood the problem. I appreciate what they tried to do and feel kinda bad they're getting so much hate for it, but at the same time they have definitely missed the mark
Of course you might be right, but the cynic in me thinks they were only trying to make money. You have to be a hardcore capitalist to come up with a single-use plastic product in 2021 Germany. And didn't they ever ask themselves if a product called 'gloves' maybe already exists? Did they think that women don't use them because they're not pink? Honestly there's so many holes in this idea I'm starting to wonder if this is not some sort of reality TV provocation / social (media) experiment...
Load More Replies...I'm still wrapping my head around the "washable period panties". You guys don't wash your period panties or I'm doing wrong all my life ? I honestly don't get it. Who traumatized this boys with period blood ?
A woman invented the period panties. They are for use without pads or tampons. It's kind of like panties with a large absorbent area sewn in.
Load More Replies...I just checked their Insta. They closed down shop and are very serious about listening to the critizising voices. I am actually shocked,too, because they are getting a lot of hate and mobbing, even their families and friends are targeted!!! There are death threats! I cannot understand, how anybody can be so cruel. They learned, so ist is ok now, isn't ist?
I mean , it's silly , but I think they were trying to do something nice
But they are not giving it to poor women that do not have access to clean water, they are selling it an excessive amount of money to women that almost always have access to a bathroom with bins and water to wash their hands, to prevent men from seeing blood in their trash, because OMG the trauma of seeing bloody tampons in the trash *eye roll*
Load More Replies...So bring something with you in order to prepare for that. We don't need this special pink crap for that. How have we handled it all this time? You said it yourself, it's superfluous, that's all that needs to be said
Load More Replies...Well mr teach you're the only one who seems offended. We don't owe these men anything the idea was bad that's all. They're trying to make money off of women we told them it won't work. Some people are angry bc they're tired of being shamed for something natural and the sexist and elitist way it's designed needs to be called out. Imagine being upset bc you think these guys deserve a pat on the back for being completely out of touch making a non problem a problem. This is how women were duped into shaving their legs too. We're not falling for it and not spending unnecessary amounts of money to please all the fragile fragile men. I hope we'll soon be done catering to insecure men around the world. They also don't need to be making money off us women pretending there's a problem and pretending to fix it. It's shady a scam and unnecessary
Load More Replies...Women told these men that they sometimes have trouble getting rid of tampons and pads and these dudes think that we need pink plastic gloves?! WE NEED TRASH BINS IN BATHROOMS! That's what we f*****g need. That is the problem. Not every toilet has a trash bin, be it somebody's private toilet or a public one, especially guys rarely have a trash bin in their toilet. TRASH BINS! doesn't need to be pink.
And even then... women kinda learn to deal with possibly missing trash cans/bags by carrying handy solutions (such as a small plastic trash bag intended for the disposal of menstrual stuff). Like... I don't need to buy a stupid overpriced glove! I'll just take one of these super cheap plastic trash bags that I buy anyway for my bathroom trash bin at home! And if I wanted a glove, I'd buy a pack of these latex ones, which already exist in several sizes! These pink gloves solve a problem that women don't usually have with a solution that already exists...... good lord.
Load More Replies...The gloves aren't a solution for touching blood, they're for "discreet disposal" - i.e. a problem that only existed in their minds after they started living with two women and had to experience used tampons themselves. They don't care if women have to touch their blood, they care that men have to see it afterwards.
Okay. But making such a product for such a purpose only adds to periods being stigmatized. This is a trash product. No matter how you look at it, it's period shaming.
Load More Replies...In response to pinky period gloves, I’m going to market masterbation mittens. Colors include “I’m-so-blue” and “can’t-see-me-camo”. Anybody want to donate to this startup campaign?
Don't forget to hear from the Men advisory board. As they did with their women advisory board.
Load More Replies...Oh I think the real issue here, and we - stupid women - don't understand it, is that we throw tampon/pad into the trash and if don't wrap it CORRECTLY our precious sensitive unicorns may see our nasty blood. So, You know, it's a small price to pay for preventing men from life-threatening situations.
Thank you. These were my thoughts exactly. And you are absolutely 100% correct.
Load More Replies...Mansplaining at it's finest. I'm from Germany and had a very good time reading through the comments on their Instagram. The drugstore-chain already announced to take the product out of the shelves.
The whole world: WE NEED TO REDUCE PLASTIC!! Dudes of "Pinky Gloves": Hold my beer!
I want to upvote this 100000x. How can anyone these days even seriously consider putting yet another disposable plastic product on the market! And an totally superfluous one at that.
Load More Replies...Sorry guys but that is a big hit and miss. Or better yet, an EPIC fail. Just a question, doesn't Germany have sanitary disposal units. Where I live you will find it quite difficult to find a toilet whether at the shops, entertainment events, parks, eateries etc that does not have a sanitary bin in each cubicle or at least one available in the girls bathroom. You wrap your tampon in toilet paper or your pad in the wrapper and place it in the bin. The lid is a bit like a parcel drop off in a post box, so you can't see inside when you lifet the lid. Some you don't even need to touch the lid, you wave your hand over a sensor and it automatically opens for you.
Of course we have. I think it's more about that men shouldn't be confronted with the "mess of menstruation" and so women should hide the bloody Details in the pink glove. That's a new form of prudish. Im just short of painting some pads and tampons bloody Red and put them on Display everywhere so men get used to it.
Load More Replies...I'd like to know who provided the 'positive feedback' they said they received when they came up with the idea. I imagine puzzled looking friends saying "I mean, technically yeah, but........"
Instead of wasting time with this, how about making a pad that has massive coverage, doesn't slip and is super absorbent for large women who have endometriosis? How about making a pad that doesn't leak in the middle of the night when your sleeping? How about making stalls a little bit bigger so you are whacking elbows in the wall trying to change a pad or tampon? And how about making the trash bins bigger than a cracker box in those stalls since the personnel that comes to clean the restrooms can't seem to remember that women go to the restrooms more often than men? This product is as bad a mansplaining how periods work.....
The advisory board must have been solely compromised of their two proud moms.
Give them some credit guys. They listened to some women complaining about a problem they knew nothing of before hand. And spent TEN YEARS thinking about this issue. So what if their "solution" wasn't really it? 😂
Maybe these guys could also "invent" gloves for wiping your ass, cleaning up semen, changing a baby's diaper and cleaning up cat sick. Must be pink. I'm female so I can't wear anything non-pink.
These bitches must not wash their hands after using the bathroom and they assume women are doing the same. Also they are too stupid to realize that the package from your next tampon or pad is how you wrap the used one. Just women don’t always wrap it well because it’s all in the trash anyway. This is just straight up pathetic and sexist too. They ought to be ashamed. Not only sexist but bad for the environment too. They should never get laid again for this bullshît.
A whole new level of stupid. I can't get over their smug self-satisfied faces at having made a product that no-one needed or wanted that doesn't even concern them. Honestly, what do they think bins are for, if not disposal of rubbish. Do they wear brown gloves to wipe their arses?
Brown gloves for arses, I just snort-laughed in the office...
Load More Replies...So~ I'm supposed to hold the used tampon/pad in my un-gloved hand while putting in a new tampon/pad onehanded? And are there enough gloves to put in the first w/out getting blood on my hand? What will I do when I'm allergic to any substance used for the gloves? Are they coming in other colours? Where are the gloves for men taking a pi$$? Where are the ones for taking a dump? And lastly we are constantly requesting to put down the luxury-tax off of hygienic articles for women. Is the pink-tax there to replace it? Isn't it enough to put on a pink-tax on everything other what is supposed to be used by women? =.=#
On top of just being a dumb idea, LOOK AT THOSE GLOVES!! I had better fitting gloves when I worked at Subway! I feel a paper cut forming in my vagina just THINKING about using those things!
FINALLY! A pink glove/bag to dispose of sanitary products! I've been just carrying my used tampon around with me, not knowing what to do! Ugh, seriously though, this is insulting. We can't even make sanitary products free yet, and now they want us to pay for this useless PINK glove? Gosh, I wish they'd make pink toilet paper so that we know which roll to use. (smh, *eye roll*) why do men even have the audacity to get involved with period products at all?
Yeah! But they were probably thought of (to men at least) as heroes for helping women with something that men don't experience. We don't even have that problem, they just created it to get money.
Load More Replies...I used to live with 4 roomates : 2 boys and 2 girls (3 including me). The guys never complains about seeing tampons/pads, used or unused. They probably didn't care. Why are these guys are "disturbed" by that?
They announced tiday that they would pull the pinky gloves off the market after all the negative comments. I'm glad they did.
Being from germany i feel deeply ashamed about what came out of my country. Even sadder than the idea is the fact that it was presented on a tv show where business ideas are pitched to investors (like any of thes "xyz got talent shows" acting as judges) and one actually wants to go with that idea. Bollocks.
These guys are really funny. Trying to sell an unnesessary and extremly overpriced product, claiming it is disposable (it's not, if you put a tampon or a pad in it) only because they can't see blood or something? I live with 3 other girls and none of them was "missing" such a scam product. But the funnyest part is not the whole conzept and bussines-plan - it is that they say "we understand now, we made a mistake, we will change" but keep deleting all negative comments on google. Since it startet! Everyday somebody sits there and deletes comments with 1 star. This is so poor, is alredy funny. Guys not having the balls to take it all.
Yes, because us women don't know how to wash our hands after we remove a pad or tampon. Really, though, this is just ridiculous.
Cause men know what women really need to proper menstruate... surely not! At first: I don't know a woman that need a glove to pull out the tampon or change the pad. Second: Toiletpaper is cheaper and available all the time to hide the tampon in the bin if necessary. Third: We're on to try to get rid of plastic, not produce even MORE plastic. This is just... Arg! And next please the BlueGloves for manly masturbation... @_@
I saw this last week on the German Höhle de Löwen (American Shark Tank becomes German Lion’s Den). Thought it was insulting two MEN had allegedly solved some sort of problem for WOMEN. And now these are on sale in local stores, $3 for 12.
We need to stop period shaming! Did they survey women when they did research into this issue; they seem to be telling women that they are solving a problem for them, without the problem actually existing, whilst also adding to plastic waste. If it's supposed to be discreet why is is bright barbie pink! They have missed the mark on so many levels!!
Men: "Ewwwww! Blood! Let's make an entirely unnecessary bit of overpriced plastic to wrap this biodegradable object in so we don't have to look at it. Also, we'll make it pink so women will know it's for them." - Women: "Dude, wtf?"
Am now going to invent a pair of super exclusive gloves for men to use when removing and disposing a condom. I'll make them camouflaged to keep up the male mystique....****satire***
Clearly women had no idea gloves existed until some nice men have finally made them in pink!
You all don't just wrap some toilet paper around it and toss it in the trash next to the toilet? Also, the gloves look extremely large so it looks more like they were made for men. Extra single use plastic being produced for no reason at all. I have never had an issue with disposing of tampon. Pull it out, wrap it up, toss it in the trash. Takes two seconds.
EXACTLY. Just use the little wrapper it comes in, and wash your hands. Fortunately, my middle school has little bins. But some dont. These gloves are useless.
Load More Replies...Maybe they thought that girls go to the toilet by couple because they change tampons and pads EACH OTHER ..so they need the gloves..🤦♀️
What a waste of even more plastic. All period products come w something to wrap used period products and the ones that don't get wrapped in toilet paper. I dont need a baggy plastic glove to dispose of my products every single time. Sometimes 8 times a day. No need for all that plastic. Plus the cost is way way way too high. How about we leave it up to women how we make period products we'll be happy to explain it all to men too so they understand. Pads can also be rolled up if there is nothing to wrap it in. Period underwear are a goddam godsend and I highly recommend them to anyone whose iffy about using them. If you don't want to but the high end ones for fear you won't like them. Try the Amazon ones for 14$. They're great especially for the nighttime. You can also use a pad in them for really heavy flows. They're easily rinsed then throw them in the washing machine
The two guys behind pinky gloves just announced on Insta that they will not continue with their start-up. They faced a massive shitstorm (quite understandable so) and - this I find pretty unsettling from the feminist perspective - death threaths. Death threats over some shitty product as patronising and unnecessary it may be seems a tad much.
Thank goodness! After millions of years of evolution, now women know what do to on their periods!
These guys are douchebags. The audacity to create something that is unnecessary. Women can wash the blood off their hands. Throw the used tampon and pad in the garbage wrapped in tissue. And so what if someone saw the period blood. There is nothing unnatural about a period
Isn't it funny how the only blood that doesn't come from violence is the one that seems to be most offensive to some people?
So men decided what women need in their lavatory stall. How about FREE TAMPONS AND PADS when we're caught out? (We can't all carry purses all the itme, folks, it's not allowed in the hospital staff here!) If you're not on a predictable pattern, for whatever reason, that sort of moment is way worse than not having *gloves*, for pity's sake. *FYI: Not all girls like hearts, or pink.
Not only did two idiots come up with this, it went through an entire process of approval and production. This is why we need more female leaders, board members, doctors, inventors, thinkers and much else. Men are dumb as s**t when it comes to female bodies and just one woman in a respected position in the process of turning this nightmarish product into reality, would have stopped this waste of time and plastic. Every last aspect of this product is just unfathomably awful!
Another stupid, pointless single use item. When are we going to learn! Also who TF looks and is grossed out by something in the trash.
If someone looks in the trash, they may as well expect to be grossed out.
Load More Replies...This reminds me of the recent massive failure of a company that tried to make a female version of Viagra, which massively bombed and now loads of investors (including celebrities) have lost a lot of money. Interestingly, the article about this was unable to name a single woman involved in this whole enterprise.
These men are obviously disgusted by menstruation so much that they can't stand the thought of us getting a little of our own blood on our hands. I wonder, do they wear gloves when they wipe their butt after they poop? 😂
wait until these guys hear about menstrual cups, wowee. idk, from the translations from instagram, it seems like they had good intentions, but as with a large number of sex toys designed for women, women were not actually consulted at any point and a lot of assumptions and stigma went into the design.
I had a hysterectomy last year due to heavy bleeding. This is useless.
This is rediculous ironic how im on my period reading this i think thats why its so stupid
Um, typical periods do not last between 21-35 days! Does she mean a typical cycle?
Think of the venture capital dufus who thought this was a good idea. Yikes.
The thing that really gets me, is that they didn't even size them for women's hands LOL.
It is not a surprise there were absolutely no women involved in this project.
Thankfully because of the outrage. Those men stopped selling this piece of crap and closed their business, yesterday.
I suppose a glove for changing tampons isn't a completely ridiculous idea, for times when one doesn't have access to water, for example while hiking (or a soldier during deployment, maybe? How would i know...). I would rather not touch my genitals with dirty hands, it is not hygienic. A glove could also indeed be useful for carrying such used sanitary products for later disposal, as I said, when one is hiking and there is no garbage bin around. That being said, as a product idea and marketing strategy, I think this is terrible, because such a product already exists - it is called "disposable gloves" and is widely available in many colors, sizes and materials. Perhaps "period gloves" would make sense if they were significantly cheaper than ordinary ones (because quality requirements are low), but apparently it is not the case.
We don't want or need "stylish and appealing" feminine hygiene products. Keep it simple and quit adding to the pink tax!
What is the point of this? Gloves exist! Also, women's flat?
I'm just glad they decided to put a stop to this ridiculous product 3 days ago. Say goodbye to Pinky!
Well, that's sweet of them, but I have no problem emptying my cup with bare hands, washing it with bare hands, and putting it back in with bare hands. It's just blood. Soap & water takes care of it. :)
If I wanted to avoid blood I would bring a regular glove. You use a previous wrapper and/or bit of TP to dispose of it more hygenically. Yes, I find it gross to see someone elses's used products but it is in the trash, esp the little trash inside the bathroom ( is that a thing in Gsrmany?) So no big deal. Nobody should have to see it in a regular trash so just wrap it up. It may be obvious what it is, no big deal, but you won't actually see the blood and it is just cleaner that way.
Why are we responding to these douches? I mean that in a masculine way as I am a mansplaining whisperer!
I’ll give them ONE piece of benefit of doubt - for women serving in the military, these might have a purpose while on active duty/training/tours, in situations where sinks hand wash etc. may not be available. That is the ONE TIME that they could come in handy. Every other scenario has better solutions x 1000.
A glove is a very good solution when in a public toilet. Your hands are never clean enough to remove a used tampon, so you use a clean glove. It doesn't have to be pink though.
I understand all the backlash they are getting, but wrapping tampons and pads cleanly is indeed insanely important for the poor cleaning personal who shouldn't touch everyone's blood all the time. So I get it that the best solution for this might not be a pink glove, but the idea itself (clean disposal of the sanitary products) isn't bad. (Or am I missing here something?)
There are sanitary disposal bins in most places, in women's bathrooms etc
Load More Replies...Ok, I can see it as a clean solution: wear the gloves, remove tampon and then inverse the glove over the tampon so you wouldnt actually have to touch the tampon at all. The tampon will also be wrapped so its hygienic disposal. But no one is ever gonna rmb to have this on hand when they change their tampon and I might as well get normal disposable gloves instead of pink overpriced ones.
I feel kinda bad for them, they tried to help women out with something that they couldn't relate to which is great, but in doing that they just misunderstood the problem. I appreciate what they tried to do and feel kinda bad they're getting so much hate for it, but at the same time they have definitely missed the mark
Of course you might be right, but the cynic in me thinks they were only trying to make money. You have to be a hardcore capitalist to come up with a single-use plastic product in 2021 Germany. And didn't they ever ask themselves if a product called 'gloves' maybe already exists? Did they think that women don't use them because they're not pink? Honestly there's so many holes in this idea I'm starting to wonder if this is not some sort of reality TV provocation / social (media) experiment...
Load More Replies...I'm still wrapping my head around the "washable period panties". You guys don't wash your period panties or I'm doing wrong all my life ? I honestly don't get it. Who traumatized this boys with period blood ?
A woman invented the period panties. They are for use without pads or tampons. It's kind of like panties with a large absorbent area sewn in.
Load More Replies...I just checked their Insta. They closed down shop and are very serious about listening to the critizising voices. I am actually shocked,too, because they are getting a lot of hate and mobbing, even their families and friends are targeted!!! There are death threats! I cannot understand, how anybody can be so cruel. They learned, so ist is ok now, isn't ist?
I mean , it's silly , but I think they were trying to do something nice
But they are not giving it to poor women that do not have access to clean water, they are selling it an excessive amount of money to women that almost always have access to a bathroom with bins and water to wash their hands, to prevent men from seeing blood in their trash, because OMG the trauma of seeing bloody tampons in the trash *eye roll*
Load More Replies...So bring something with you in order to prepare for that. We don't need this special pink crap for that. How have we handled it all this time? You said it yourself, it's superfluous, that's all that needs to be said
Load More Replies...Well mr teach you're the only one who seems offended. We don't owe these men anything the idea was bad that's all. They're trying to make money off of women we told them it won't work. Some people are angry bc they're tired of being shamed for something natural and the sexist and elitist way it's designed needs to be called out. Imagine being upset bc you think these guys deserve a pat on the back for being completely out of touch making a non problem a problem. This is how women were duped into shaving their legs too. We're not falling for it and not spending unnecessary amounts of money to please all the fragile fragile men. I hope we'll soon be done catering to insecure men around the world. They also don't need to be making money off us women pretending there's a problem and pretending to fix it. It's shady a scam and unnecessary
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