Tampon now lets you buffer tweets with pictures

Feminine hygiene is a touchy subject. It's not something you just casually bandy about, and it's a major turn-off admittedly for both guys and girls. But to be in an industry where it's OK to go ahead and make an app and call it Tampon and not get called out for it (I'm glad people here on HN have, thank you guys) means that we are in a crass industry where people have no regard for touchy subjects that could make our female compatriots uncomfortable.

(Some) women go to great lengths to hide their monthly discharge and related hygiene control. Imagine how they would feel if they tried to use this app on a daily basis?

There isn't a good comparison for the guys, but the real grind is that it's a bad name for an app that has nothing to do with its purpose. Imagine if it were called, I dunno, Condom. Why the fuck would you call it that, even if condom where West Gibberish for "buffer?" It's not funny, it's just uncouth and inconsiderate.

For the record, I'm a guy.

Pad, in English, has common uses other than a feminine hygiene product - a pad of paper, a building pad, a launch pad. Tampon doesn't.

Good idea, but this sounds a bit too close to Buffer :)

No, gairaigo usually just sound stupid when brought back to English. How about "Kanshou" （緩衝）, the native Japanese word for "buffer"?