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. Empowering stuff.
For some reason in the current gender war, at a time when we are expected to accept that there are tens of different genders, the only one that seems to be constantly under attack is the one that around 50 per cent of us are born with.
Women are targeted by all sides. To appease women who identify as men, our biology is denied. Even a recent healthcare campaign last year by Cancer Research called on ‘anyone with a cervix’ to go for a smear test. To make men who identify as women more comfortable, women must give up their right to privacy in toilets and make do with fewer facilities, as the Old Vic demonstrated earlier this month.
Most worryingly of all, women’s safety has also been compromised by the trans-ideology: some police forces are now allowing suspected and convicted rapists to self-identify as female.
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