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Thinx Promised a Feminist Utopia to Everyone But Its Employees
Thinx Promised a Feminist Utopia to Everyone But Its Employees
Last February, long before she stepped down as CEO of Thinx, the period underwear company she co-founded, Miki Agrawal published an open letter on Medium asking women in media "to Respectfully Quit Telling Me How to 'Do Feminism' (and just support one another, please!)" Without naming names, the post alluded to the online backlash that ensued after Agrawal told an interviewer from The Cut that she didn't relate to being a feminist until she started her company because "[e]very time I thought about the word feminist, I thought about an angry, ranty...
Just saw this article on Twitter and wanted to share.
I have a pair of Thinx panties myself and have been following them since they first launched/got popular...this is very disappointing to hear, especially when they've been very inclusive and outspoken about the stimatism around menstruating, for all genders.



