Proposed Chinese train station that resembles a massive sanitary pad torched for ’embarrassing’ design

These critics did not support their opinions.

A proposed train station in Nanjing, China, looks like a huge sanitary napkin, social media users said after absorbing the design renderings.

Chinese officials said the design of the North Nanjing station was inspired by the plum blossoms the city is famous for, but that did not stop a steady stream of sarcastic comments online, according to the BBC.

“It’s a giant sanitary napkin. It’s embarrassing to say it looks like a plum blossom,” one commenter wrote on the country’s Weibo platform.

“Why can we all immediately say it’s a sanitary napkin, but the architects can’t?” said another user.

“I think we should take this opportunity to call on society to pay attention to period shame. This design is ahead of its time,” someone else joked.

Construction of the site is expected to begin within the next two months and would cost 20 billion Chinese yuan, or $2.7 billion, the Nanjing Morning News was quoted as saying in 2017.

The design was approved by the Jiangsu provincial government and the China State Railway Group, according to state media.

This is not the first Chinese architectural project associated with the lower regions.

The headquarters of a state television station in Beijing is known by some as the “big boxer” building, due to its resemblance to “a pair of walking legs, a person squatting over a toilet and genitals women,” reported China Digital Space.