P&G REMOVES VENUS SYMBOL FROM ITS TAMPON PACKAGING, BUT THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE STORY
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After several paragraphs of facts showing that P&G did remove the symbol as concession to transgenders’ demands, Snopes concludes:
Procter & Gamble’s decision to introduce the Venus symbol certainly prompted a concerned response among trans activists (especially trans men) in 2019, and some of those activists expressed those concerns and requests to the company in no uncertain terms. However, the proverbial “angry backlash,” including online calls for a boycott of Always — an inherently coercive form of opposition — only came in October, when news emerged that the company would be removing the symbol.
Companies make marketing and public relations decisions for various reasons, and such choices are typically arrived at after careful consideration of multiple strategic, commercial, financial, ethical, and legal factors. Requests and appeals such as those made by Saunders and other trans activists certainly appear to have played a role in Procter & Gamble’s decision, based on the company’s own statement.
However, it is a gross distortion of the actual sequence of events to claim that those activists, or an ill-defined “transgender lobby,” somehow forced the company into its U-turn on the Venus symbol. They did not.
You can go to the Snopes whitewash and read the actual emails from P&G to one of the trans activists, as well as its press releases on the matter, but Snopes has longt since lost all credibility as some sort of objective fact checker. That role has been assumed by the nation’s new paper of record, the Babylon Bee, which sums up this kerfuffel best:
Always Appeals To Men With Pads Featuring Pictures Of Monster Trucks, Pro Wrestlers
CINCINNATI, OH—Always is appealing to the company's male customers with its new "Always Macho" series of menstrual products.
The pads and tampons' packaging will feature pictures of monster trucks crushing each other, AR-15s, and John Cena dropkicking people.
"We want to welcome all people who menstruate, whether you are a cisgender woman, a transgender man, or a dude who really likes monster trucks," said a Procter & Gamble representative. "And you can't go wrong with monster trucks. Monster trucks are big. Monster trucks are cool. Monster trucks go boom."
Various pictures on the products include the following:
A nuclear weapon decimating a city
Bacon
A 1978 Trans Am with fire coming out of the pipes
Aragorn chopping off an Orc's head
A T-rex with Gatling guns for arms
Batman
