A company in Germany has been forced to take its 'tampon disposal gloves' off the market due to global backlash over the product.
Women have slammed the 'Pinky' gloves, which were created for women to wear while removing tampons, or handling sanitary products in general.
TikTok user, Nadya Okamoto, first posted about the 'horrifying' product this weekend, explaining she was appalled, but sadly unsurprised.
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"The idea is apparently, that menstrual blood is gross, that we don't want to touch it, how could we ever deal with pulling a tampon string out?" she said.
"They are selling these Pinky gloves and it literally is a pink glove, so you can safely dispose of your used period product."
"These are the men behind the company," Nadya continued, showing a picture of the founders of the Pinky gloves.
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"Making the assumption there's a need for such a protection against period blood. What the actual..."
And other women are equally horrified at the product, with one person writing on social media: "It took three men to invent a glove."
While another added: "And OF COURSE they are pink. For women."
"If we really needed gloves for that, we would have been using normal medical ones already what," commented another.
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And one added: "Oh no period blood! It's not like the same blood that moves throughout my body all the time."
"Did they talk to a single woman about this?" Questioned a fifth.
The company has since removed the product from the market and apologised. In a translated statement, they said: "At no point did we intend to discredit anyone or make a natural process taboo. The development of our product and the communication with it was not well thought out.
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"People make mistakes - and you have to deal with mistakes, you have to learn from them and you should also be given the chance to work on mistakes. Together with Ralf, we have decided that the Pinky Gloves will be taken off the market and [we] have initiated all the necessary measures accordingly.
"We are stopping all purchasing and sales activities. We apologise to everyone whose feelings and emotions have been hurt. We can understand that so many are upset about it.
"We continue to welcome the fact that an important debate has started, where the objective and constructive culture of debate will hopefully regain the upper hand.
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"What affects us in the long term is the fact that we are exposed to a violent wave of hatred, bullying and threats of violence, including death threats.
"We are attacked and verbally abused on the street. We took the criticism to heart and understood it. We can no longer stand it and are at the end of our tether. Please stop attacking and threatening us, our families and supporters."
Featured Image Credit: Instagram/Pinky Gloves