The bizarre decision to remove the Venus symbol from sanitary towels

Women, eh? Never happy. The feminists are up in arms again, this time over sanitary towels. Still, not to worry – great strides are being made to just erase women altogether, so that in the future, no one will even know what the word ‘woman’ means. So bravo to sanitary towel brand Always for leading the way by announcing their decision to remove the female Venus symbol from their packaging after complaints that the imagery is not inclusive to transgender or non-binary people.

It shouldn’t really matter, should it? It’s just a symbol on a wrapper. But it does. Because when you start to deny women’s biology, you begin to deny they exist at all. 

In justifying the move, Proctor & Gamble, who manufacture Always, told the Metro: ‘Our mission remains to ensure no girl loses confidence at puberty because of her gender or period.’ Yet by removing the Venus, the female symbol, from their products, the message they are now sending girls and women is that being female is offensive.