The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men’s lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: “Got a period situation going on? We got you.” The Telegraph has more.
The charity is providing the sanitary products in men’s toilets at Sizergh Castle, near Lake Windermere in the Lake District.
A large box fixed to the wall offers free tampons near the urinals, emblazoned with the wording: “Got a period situation going on? We got you”. Nearby is a disposal bin featuring a male icon.
One 79 year-old visitor to the stately home said he was “confused” to find the menstruation paraphernalia.
He said: “Entering the male-only designated toilet, I was confused. Pads and tampons were provided, plus a male disposal bin. There was a female-only toilet nearby, and both male and female facilities [were] clearly marked with a male figure and a female figure… not unisex facilities.
“As a man, I appreciate the prostate bins in the men’s toilet and pads for men, but having gone and used the urinal, I then turned around and I was facing a green bin saying something like: ‘Are you having period problems?’
“And I went outside and put my head outside the door. I wanted to check if I had used the wrong toilet. I was confused and it led to a great deal of discussion with my wife and friends as to why tampons and pads were put into the gents. I think it needs explaining as to what this policy means.”
The tampon box is provided by Dame, which specialises in sustainable period products and claims that nothing used in the making of its products is animal-derived.
The National Trust announced a partnership with the company in September, saying at the time it would allow the trust “to deliver period dignity sensitively, sustainably and with a distinct aesthetic in keeping with our unique spaces”.
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Having googled vegan tampons, it seems that their main claim is that they are organic, natural cotton. I know quite a few farmers, some organic some not. The organic ones will tell me they use natural fertiliser, from their cows, which are producing milk or beef, whereas the non-organic get chemical fertiliser from the agrochemical industry. So my question is, are they vegan with cotton fertilised with agrochemicals or are they organic with cotton fertilised by animals?
I recall the old joke: what’s a packed lunch for a Vampire? Now there’s a vegan version?
That’s me finished with the NT then. Never again. Not that iv’e visited one of their places in years, too expensive.
I have emailed their head office, to ask where do men insert a tampon. I look forward to their reply.
Just boycott the National Trust. There are plenty of other places to visit ….. try Historic Houses, where you won’t get this kind of “woke” nonsense.
https://www.historichouses.org/
Tampons are supposed to be very useful for bullet wounds first aid! Might be useful to keep in mind.
If they’re made from cotton, why do they need to be described as “Vegan”?
To make sure the vegans understand that these tampons were made from plant-based cotton.
🙂
What do the men do? shove it up their backsides? I have to question why the National trust is a charity at all if it spends its donors money on such arrant nonsense.
The National Trust is now looking to me like a political group who happen to have the care of heritage buildings, the fact that they despise the English and their history makes it all the more ironic that they should have care of them at all.
It’s supposed to be for a woman who presents in men’s clothes and wants to be a man so wants to go in a toilet with other men but oh suddenly realises their period has started so needs a tampon. Women usually know when their period is due and probably carry a tampon in their bag. If not they improvise or if lucky use a machine in the female toilet. This has to be a JOKE but it ain’t funny it’s DERANGED. Resources used for minus % of the population. And people wonder why the West is crumbling!
This also used to be high up on the agenda of the SPD when it led the German government (ie, under the previous German government). The point about resources is a very salient one. The National Trust isn’t supposed to spend money on “period product” machines for men’s toilets for the sole purpose to stick two fingers up to the supreme court because of it’s decision that sex does indeed mean sex. That’s someone making a seriously bizarre political statement using misappropriated funds.
Thank you so much for letting your readers know the tampon situation at the national trust. I will never enter a National trust property again. Boycotts are the only way to force these organisations to rethink their woke decisions. We simply will not tolerate it.
Surely the issue here is that the National Trust is, albeit in a small way, in contempt of court. The Supreme Court decided earlier in the year that single sex spaces should be reserved for the designated sex. Ok, there’s some dallying by activist groups who are trying to stave off implementation, awaiting detailed guidance from the Equalities Commission, but it strikes me that this is an affront to the ruling.
Quite. Seems to be overlooked.
Dumped my membership years ago. They wouldn’t exist without hardworking capitalists building those homes. I wouldn’t mind betting Diane Abbott is their President
Vegan.🤔……..do vegetarians eat them?
I feel so much happier knowing that next time I visit a NT property and my piles bleed, help is at hand. Bonus points for it being vegan too, after all I wouldn’t want to be shoving a cylinder of horsehair up my rectum.
This is pretty funny. Love to know whose idea this was
“Jane! Pass us a tampon underneath, I’ve run out in ‘ere!”
“Me too, Denise, don’t worry, we’ll just pop to the men’s, they’ve got loads in there!”
Time the Charities Commission was replaced and the new one dismissed the entire National Trust board. Maybe time to break up the NT and remind the parts what their job is. It is not to promote woke nonesence.
Nonce sense?
Seriously, I effing despair for this country.
Hopefully the blokes will buy loads and shove them down the toilet blocking the pipework.
I’d want to dispense the lot, then put them on the floor. No theft as no intent to permanently deprive. If caught, I’d say I thought I was having a big nose bleed…
…from my male vagina.
Presumably MENstruating confused one of the simpletons who work for the National Trust.
Even the language is phony. I have never said, nor has anyone ever said to me “I have a period situation going on.” It is ludicrous from start to finish. Period.
WTF is a vegan tampon, or should I say ‘manpon’, when it’s at home? Are regular tampons made from glow worm/spider silk, or something?? What the hell is this garbage? 😮
Well I’m calling BS on this vegan gimmicky nonsense. They’re just made from cellulose and cotton. They do talk about ‘webs’, so I was on the right lines;
https://www.edana.org/how-we-take-action/tampons/infographic-and-components
The journey of a tampon?!
‘Manpon’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣 stop it your slaying me!
Is it April the First again already ?
This article is one of the (many) reasons I subscribe to DS. You have literally made me fall off my chair laughing. Who knew? 🤣🤣
What the hell is a VEGAN tampon?
Presumably, just a tampon which had VEGAN written on it because it was always true but nobody cared about it. There’s also a bakery shop in reading selling plant-based bread
(which is the reason why I won’t ever buy something there — I want my bread to be made out of minced meat and blood, as it always used to be !!!1)
Bread contains a small amount of fat. I use lard, just to stick two fingers up at the vegans.
Fat may be added to bread. Or not. But it’s “plant-based” in either case as the main ingredients are ground grass seeds of various kinds and water.
With my breadmaking it is mostly butter but some recipes use olive oil.
Thank you for educating me. I’d assumed “plant based” was synonymous with vegan, but it isn’t. Now I know.
Not something I have ever considered introducing in to my diet. I love meat. And fish.
You’re not meant to put them in that orifice. 🙂
Perhaps it’s a carrot stick ?
A tasty snack?
If only it was possible to resign from the National Trust more than once.
“…is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men’s lavatories”
And I should think so too – what about Halal tampons, for when Fatima identifies as Mohamed?
Stick them up your nose to stop nose bleeds? Better than pencils. Maybe the towels would be worn on the head? Use the tampons to start barbecues, just soak in alcohol and light, then cook the Vegan animal.
It’s the torture of the English language that really hurts.
I somehow doubt in days gone by (when Sizergh was a real castle), fake knights in shining armour ever rescued damsels in distress.
These days they will very disappointed when they find said damsel has a cock.
I left the NT over 25 years ago as you could see then the direction it was going in. I see it’s only got a lot worse.
I had coffee with a friend this week. She was a wonderful, knowledgeable, longstanding NT volunteer who has now quit. Why, requires no explanation as everyone knows about this wanton vandalism of the trust betrayed.