Tautology

[hawkida]

My local freecylce group has just advertised "ladies tampons".

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Unused I hope?

[fringefaan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps to distinguish them from "strumpets tampons"?

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he realised he'd bought the wrong kind.

[lara-collins.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she's had "the jab" and therefore doesn't need them any more?

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

For ladies periods.

[carbonel]

While it's definitely an obscure usage, "tampon" is also used in a non-gendered manner to refer to refer to a type of wound packing.

[yalovetz]

There are some men who need to use tampons on occasion, but as far as I'm aware they have to use the ladies kind out of a general lack of other options.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

T recall a story involving a leading British actor along those lines, although it's quite possibly apocryphal.

[arborophile.livejournal.com]

Ew! ;-)