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"August" wants to be a gender-inclusive brand, calls customers 'menstruators'

"August" wants to be a gender-inclusive brand, calls customers 'menstruators'

The period product company August launched with this commercial in 2021, and promises to deliver "sustainable, ethical, impactful, tax-free" period products directly to your doorsteps. Not a super original idea, several similar subscription model period care companies have launched these past few years. But what's interesting is CEO Nadya Okamoto's tactic in marketing it. You see, just like Yoppie period care CEO, Ms. Okamoto has decided to use new terms in her period care branding, she omits "women" completely and focuses on calling us "menstruators".
That didn't go so well for Planned Parenthood when they used that term back in 2016. On CBS Mornings, Ms. Okamoto discussed her products while making sure to stress that it's for everyone from "young menstruators" and it's a "period positive gender inclusive brand." Here's a short clip.

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Ms. Okamoto has a different motivation for the words she's chosen, as she explained on CBS: “We’re also wanting a period-positive, gender-inclusive brand. We are August; on the pack it says ‘we’re here for everyone who menstruates.’ And I think especially in this age of transphobia it really means a lot to us to be a proudly gender-inclusive brand."
August will soon be available in a Target near you.

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