Kleenex Removes "Mansize" Tissues Due To Gender Inequality

There once was a time when a single tissue could work for people of all genders.  Never-mind the name, a tissue's a tissue after all, right? 

Kleenex is re-branding it's "Mansize" tissues with the name Kleenex Extra Large after getting blowback from those saying it was demeaning to women.

The "Mansized" tissues have been a part of the Kleenex catalog since 1956.

Kimberly-Clarke is the parent company of Kleenex. They tell the Daily Telegraph that it in "no way suggests" that being both soft and strong was "an exclusively masculine trait, nor do we believe that the Mansize branding suggests or endorses gender inequality."

Read more over at the Daily Telegraph.


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