‘Woke’ Rail Company Fails to Mention Women in Free Tampon Scheme
Avanti West Coast has launched a free tampon scheme without mentioning women or females, referring instead to “customers” and “people”. The Telegraph has the story.
On Wednesday, the train company announced that free period care would be available on its trains. The Package for a Friend scheme, which coincides with Menstrual Hygiene Day, allows “customers” to request pads from staff in the onboard shop.
Alternatively, the company said travellers could place an order on their click and collect service to discreetly pick up goods from a member of staff without having to ask.
It said the scheme was thought of following suggestions from employees, including those involved in the operator’s Gender Network, to “help customers when in need”.
Kathryn O’Brien, the customer experience director at Avanti West Coast, said: “We want everyone to have a comfortable journey when travelling with us, and know the importance of making essential items available on board our trains to enable this.
“So we’re pleased to now be offering free period care, and hope our customers will feel reassured they can access them when they need during their journey.”
However, the official release made no mention of women or females, with critics accusing Avanti of being “extremely offensive” to women.
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This type of virtue signaling posturing seems to be the standard “displacement activity” for a lot of companies.
Can’t run a proper train service? Offer free tampons.
Can’t police the streets? Paint the police cars rainbow.
Closing bank branches? Float your DEI credentials.
Can somebody explain the rationale behind even having a ‘Menstrual Hygiene Day’ in the first place? This is unnecessary cringe and I don’t know how it ever became a ‘thing’. It’s ridiculous. I mean, are females all of a sudden reliant on others to supply them with tampons and pads because, for some inexplicable reason, they’ve failed to take personal responsibility and stick some of their own in their bag before they leave the house? You know, like they have done with no problems for flipping years?? Jesus wept.. Meanwhile, *victimhood alert*. This man thinks that Reform taking down the rainbow flag from a town hall means he’s now in danger as it is a ”token of protection”, like a crucifix in a vampire movie. He’s doomed now, clearly; ‘I’m not asking you to like me. I’m asking you to save me.’ ”Bishop Auckland Pride Director Thomas Wales says removing the Pride flag sends a “worrying message” to LGBTQ+ people. ‘It was a symbol of protection. Taking it down feels like they removed that!”’ https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1927758212477927447 Top comment: ”He does not speak for us all. As a gay man I hate to be affiliated with this bunch of nutters. The whole… Read more »
Spot on. sorry no pun intended.
It’s almost as if women are being told they are dirty and smelly for having a period.
All women know how to deal with a period, I mean men don’t have a clean pants day for unexpected ejaculations do they? We don’t have trains offering free toothpaste and toothbrushes to the orally offensive, or deodorant to those with smelly armpits.
True at times a biological female can be caught out, but if trains had a machine selling tampons then problem solved.
Men’s pants might need something larger.
It’s also patronizing: women know how to take care of themselves without assistance from a train operator.
And what self-respecting woman/girl would ask train personnel for sanitary products anyway? “Click and collect”?🤔
They’d just take the age-old tried and tested approach of shoving a wad of toilet roll in their knickers. Job done. Temporarily, anyway. Besides, how on earth do people suppose girls and women managed donkey’s years ago? It’s called being “on yer rags” for a reason.🤭
I think all sensible women carry some sort of female sanitary product for unexpected eventualities.
It is part of the ‘Day for everything’ culture that has come from somewhere, oh except for anything for white males. I am not sure if it started politically or commercially but these days you get marketing emails frequently. Of course the ‘really important’ things might get a whole week or a month.
Meant as a reply to Mogwai!
It could be taken as an acknowledgement by “the authorities” that they’ve imported a great many women and girls from 3rd world countries who don’t understand basic hygiene.
I am so tired of this “in your face”. I am hoping those “pride” trains get grafitied. June in the US is looking to become a much more pleasant months without the pride hysteria.
How long have women been on this planet?
But in 2025 a train operator decides to tell women how to…
For crying out loud !!!
And whats a “Gender Network” when it’s at home? Sounds like a dating app for the alphabeti peeps.😁 Going by the clip of that train in the picture, I’d imagine the driver more resembling Mr Tumble than a legit professional. 😳
“Gender network”
A sideline to the main line 😀😀
They aren’t doing it for altruistic reasons. They’re doing it because they are sick of having to get the blood off the seats. And the faeces and urine and vomit and semen. Standards have slipped and pockets are empty. Another thing you notice on English trains that many English women don’t wash their hair so that if you are sitting behind them you can see their hair glued to their head with grease. Makes you feel quite woozy. In terms of tampons being offered to men I don’t care about that. Their body their choice. They can stick whatever they want up em and many men do use tampons anyway as a lifestyle choice.
It comes to something when they can’t even use the term period product. I saw a notice in the toilet on a train, I think it was LNER, months ago saying I could ask for a package for a friend. The woke nonsense tempted me to ask for a jam rag for the wife to see what the response would be.
There is no such thing as FREE period care. Customers who don’t need/want period care are funding it for others.
Every woman has a pretty good idea of when her period is due and there is no reason whatsoever why they shouldn’t carry a tampon in their handbag at all times for emergency situations.
But even IF they are caught by surprise, there is no reason why provision of an emergency tampon by Avanti should be free-at-the-point-of-delivery. Anyone on a train has the money to buy one.
More nanny-state NONSENSE.