Do you women think they should create a numeric schema for women's tampons across manufactures?

Question

Essentialy this is it. My wife tells me to go to the store and get her some tampons. She has her own words of what is considered for light/heavy/thin/long etc etc etc. And I find when looking for tampons for her each company has their own way of expressing fluid capacity. I always come home with the wrong thing. If I went to put tires on my car there is a Tire modeling Schema ex: P205 70 R15. I dosen't matter what fvcking tire company there is (Michelin, Goodyear, Kelly) if I give them this number everybody is on the same page. I'm thinking of a system like L-W-(WW-H). So that would be Lenght-Width-(WW = With Wings, T = Thong, R = Regular H-heavy, m = medium, l = light) etc. etc. Like if every company keeps this number system on the front package in the same place of each manufacture it's easy for us. But these standereds exist for everything already like if I go into Home Depot and ask for a 4x4x8 everybody knows I'm looking for a post (fence, mailbox) and pressure treated.

Answer 1

Not a bad idea.
Too many things for women-clothes, shoe, tampons, pantyhose are in non-regulated sizes and it is annoying.
Good luck

Answer 2

My guess would be the reason that this doesn't exist has to do partially with marketing analysis of what kind of wording and labeling of tampons appeals to women, and both the difficulty and sensitivity of measurements in that matter.
For example, unlike measurements for WOOD, measurements of where I stick my tampon are less precise and therefore immediate size translation is not as relevant, particularly since shapes (beginning and final) vary widely among brands.
Secondly, the absorbency (what really counts) is not necessarily measured by size, and varies across brands and materials. This would confound the adding of a universal numbering system, as each tampon brand would have to be measured by some kind of established standard of absorbency and size.
Finally, I have to admit that I prefer the language of using an "ultra slim medium silk-glide overnite" than with using a "2x4x1L" or a "5x8x2WW" on my @33. Plus I'd probably forget the labeling system.
Nice try, though.

Answer 3

Wow! I think you should become the industry's champion of the tampon liquid standardization. Of course, if you pitch this idea to the manufacturers, they may just take it if you can find a way to deliver the idea so that it looks like a value-add to their product. Or if you can sell it to them on the merit of it being marketable as 'progressive', 'smart' or 'feminine-friendly'.

Hell, you could put up a website and start a company that's a liquid-capacity-standardization credentializing organization. Kind of like "Organic" certified by QAI. You could then charge those tampon companies to become certified. All you really need is a couple of web pages, like mission, standards-compliance, some criteria for measuring methodology and a cool logo.

Of course, if you are successful, you *will be known* thereafter as TAMPONMAN!

And why is your lady asking you to get tampons anyway? Is this a dominatrix training thing? If so, it's a new twist and I applaud you two.

Answer 4

First of all your wife has some communication problems!!! Most women prefer to use a specific brand that works for them, and so all she had to do was tell you what brand she used, that way you could go right to that section, and only have to look and what that brand offered as far as protection. The same goes with pads, they are ALREADY MARKED, thats how I end up buying the SAME ONES EVERY TIME!!! If it were as confusing as you think it is, I would end up with a different product each time, but thats NOT the case.

Answer 5

Er. Yes.

I don't really understand why women don't buy their own tampons.

And tampons really aren't all that different from each other. They're bunches of cotton that end up doing the same job and going to the same place (the trash). So don't feel too terrible about getting "the wrong kind."

Answer 6

This would be difficult to interpret if you have not had the experience of a period. I think that you are a great sport to do this, I know a lot of men who are afraid to be seen holding their wife's purse for five minutes while they do something. You have a good sense of humour and your wife is lucky. Last time I went to Home Depot to buy an electric drill I came home with a nail gun. Best of luck.

Answer 7

As another man who would buy tampons and believes in standardization maybe we could get the contact information of these companies and make a formal suggestion to the people who influence those that make the decisions. And to the B***H who accused this real man who takes care of his woman as being a bad personal shopper-- I hope you die alone so you don't poison the life of any good man who deserves to live his life with a woman better than you.

Answer 8

I am just stunned that you will buy these things for your wife you can do anything you want just keep up the good work you get a gold star and if you are ever single look me up

Answer 9

I had not realized there were different symbols. Maybe it's just in America, or maybe it's just because I always see the same two brands in Europe, and they have the same symbols... Anyway, yes, I agree, it would be a good idea.

Answer 10

they already have sizes on the box.

i came up with this idea: That men should be branded on their foreheads with their penis size this way a girl knows what she's getting herself into...or into her rather.