As if periods were already too much of a hassle, German brand Pinky Gloves seems to take the cake for one of the most frustrating and unnecessary inventions for menstruators in recent history. After receiving extreme backlash for their newest product, designed for people to make as little mess as possible when changing their hygiene products, founders Eugen Raimkulow and Andre Ritterswürden went to Instagram to address the outrage.
In a long-winded apology that was translated from German, the duo describes their remorse for creating the product while also stating that they “have decided to remove the Pinky Gloves from the market and have taken all necessary measures accordingly.”
The idea for the gloves came about when Raimkulow and Ritterswürden had lived in a women’s flat and noticed that there was no “good solution when it came to the disposal of tampons,” as The New York Post writes. Presenting their idea for the invention on the popular German-TV show Die Höhle der Löwen, one of the judges, Ralf Dümmel, decided to invest €30k into the company. It was not long before comments from all over the Internet began to surface about the absurdity behind the idea.
For everyone appalled at the misogyny and sexism of Pinky Gloves – check out the male version, Bluey Gloves ?https://t.co/sgVGf1UvCV cc @keano81
— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) April 25, 2021
Literally crying with laughter reading @CCriadoPerez‘s latest newsletter about men creating ‘period gloves’ for women so we could stop ‘scrabbling around, hands drenched in blood, smearing clots on door handles’ every time we change our tampons, and then they made them like this: pic.twitter.com/FQ06uwNqZr
— Katja L Kaine (@KatjaLKaine) April 27, 2021
Pinky Gloves (@pinky_gloves on Insta) is a German start-up ran by men who think menstrual blood is unclean and that gloves are necessary when changing tampons or pads.
Where do we even begin? There is nothing unhygienic about period blood. This is period shaming. pic.twitter.com/Cu8LdeH7qT
— Clue (@clue) April 15, 2021
Many can agree that the invention of Pinky Gloves should have never existed and that creations such as these are an example of why proper education about the body should be handled accordingly. The last thing any vagina-owner needs is someone telling them how they should be taking care of themselves.
Top photo via of pinkygloves.de
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