#boycottTampax a women's period products company is getting off on the idea of their products being inserted in girls and women - getting there first - while men are chatting them up hoping for sex. Overtones of rape, paedophilia, misogyny - what a hat-trick https://t.co/bgkmOGpRvm
— A Twatter on Tw*tter (@A44955679) November 22, 2022
November 22, 2022
I wasn't going to contribute to viral marketing, but now that there's a #boycottTampax trend, I need to call your attention to this.
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"Rape, pedophilia, misogyny"
Congrats Twatter on Twitter, you just nailed the buzzword hat-trick trifecta!
Parody or derangement, who can tell these days.
... and elective abortion. Sing it, grandma.
The "burden" of evidence is planned and sequestered in darkness.
I've seen this Tampax tweet several times on twitter and didn't understand what it means. I still don't understand any of this. What are people upset about? (I don't need to be told that they're dumb for being upset, I'm sure I'll realize that on my own, I just want to know the what of it.)
@tim
The tampon manufacturer is bragging about its access to women's vaginas.
Seems related to the old Prince Charles jokey wish to be a tampon forever up inside Camilla Parker-Bowles.
There was a whole episode in Season 5 of "The Crown" about that.
Clever, funny, but also classless and just begging for trouble. Should not have been used and definitely should have been thought out- with women among those deciding- before it went out on the company twitter account.
Sometimes a good line is best kept to yourself.
If you make your living from products being inserted into women, you probably do "get off" on the profits.
But does that make Tampax and mother company Procter & Gamble very well-paid pimps?
It's the applicator that represents the thrill, not the tampon. Girls wouldn't know that.
#BoycotTamponApplicators
Do puberty blockers prevent the symptoms Támpax... ameliorates?
(I was going to say 'fixes' but that would imply 'getting under the hood' and Althouse says she had enough of that kind of talk)
If so, Támpax is barking up the wrong tree.
Somebody posts something on Twitter.
Then somebody writes an angry tweet about it.
Then a bunch of somebodies agree with the angry tweet.
Then the media says it's a trend.
Then it self-fulfills.
This is how we FUD.
Whether or not it's offensive, the phrasing is certainly creepy. How did someone at a women's-product company think this would be good publicity?
(On top of everything else, it isn't a great business practice to refer to your own customers as "them.")
Come on SMOD where you at
Tampax might not be the best thing in the world, but it's right up in there.
In other Twitter marketing news: Balencia posts a photoshoot of a young girl holding a teddy bear wearing leather sub-outfit with a printed copy of the Ashcroft vs Free Speech Coalition opinion in clear view. Did these brands think that attacking Musk wasn't working, so they'd use their brands to advertise perverted concepts to push people away from Twitter?
The chances that Tampax' social media intern is NOT a person of menstruation are miniscule. Tempest in a ... no, not going there.
An inside joke.
That joke : locker room humor :: Taco Bell : Mexican cuisine
Women shouldn't try to write men's jokes.
Definition of a cotton picker. Lost the string on the tampon.
"You're in their dreams. We're in them. We are not the same.", probably.
A tampon, then a penis, then came baby. Pussy hats vote for abortions, then a penis. then a tampon... as Schumer laments is progressively not a viable construct of civilization. The Tweet is a parody of women's choices and trans/appropriation with social progress.
It's all very confusing but the nub of it is that Tampax started an ad campaign which was strongly supportive of transsexuals of the Bruce/Caitlin variety and the anti-transsexual feminists (TERFS) are striking back with their usual class in calling for a boycott.
I guess it should more accurately be called a girlcott.
And apparently there exists an internet meme in which a guy states that while a competing suitor has found his way into a girl's direct messages the first guy has already found his way into the girl - like a tampon. Burn! That's the sexist part which allegedly compares tampon insertion to penis insertion.
Tampax might not be the best thing in the world, but it's right up in there.
... from puberty, in their dreams, no less. We, the Tampons, are in her waking dreams, by choice, with cause. It's Her choice, her choice, his choice, our choice for the People and our Posterity... Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. In what some lament has been appropriated, subverted, and evolved as a progressive construct that is incompatible with human viability.
My governor is named Tina Kotex.
It's pretty cringey, but it gets people talking, which is all that really seems to matter any more. Right?
If they are trying to make men jealous of a bloody tampon...I don't think it will work. "To boldly go where no man wants to go" ??
To paraphrase Shakespeare: A Twatter is but a tweeting shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets her hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a handmade tale told by an advocate of social contagion.
Tempest in a ... no, not going there.
Quite literally a tempest in a uterus, which a tampon may help to moderate. Remember, it's Her choice, her choice, your Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, proceed with informed consent.
Tampax taunts teenage boys.
Teenage boys retort, we want access with no strings attached.
What's a "DM"?
As Narciso would put it, we live in the stupid timeline.
It's an observation of boy, girl, and tampon. And a humorous riff on three's a crowd.
Folks need to lighten up a bit all around.
"Tempest in a ... no, not going there."
Would you believe a vortex in a vagina?
Aren't Tampax products "in them" during a period of time (no pun intended) when many avoid being in them??
Go ahead. You have have that week of the month. Be my guest. The DMs too. Take 'em. All yours.
This is just stupid. Seems like Tampax could probably use an Elon Musk style employee purge.
Come on SMOD where you at
My first thought, as well. It can't come soon enough.
When a vagina becomes a "front hole" you can make all the creepy jokes you want about it. It's no longer attached to a cervix, a womb, or a woman.
Get woke, go broke.
Get arrogantly and tastelessly woke, go even more broke even faster.
So, obscure references to a TV show give me license to exercise my social justice values??
I'm gonna need a bigger bumper sticker!!
Don't get involved with tampons, there are always strings attached.
Too funny Wince @ 3:37 PM!!!
n.n.
Very6 Lasloesque.
I approve.
In our local supermarket, the aisle that used to be called Feminine Hygiene is now called Period Products.
And apparently there exists an internet meme in which a guy states that while a competing suitor has found his way into a girl's direct messages the first guy has already found his way into the girl - like a tampon
Show me. I haven't seen any of the "we are not the same" memes that talk about tampons, until now. I would not be surprised if there were a few out there (it is the internet and there are 13-year-olds trying to sound cool), but that was not part of the meme.
"Women shouldn't try to write men's jokes.'
I have to agree with you. Men today wouldn't dare come up with that.
Why, I wonder, were they not called TampIns?
I'm not sure a talking tampon screams "rape."
Although I grant you nobody wants their tampon talking.
"Alexa, shut the fuck up. You're not supposed to be in there."
ha ha ha ha
That prosecution would be a little difficult.
Bloody tampon on the stand.
"She put me in there. All I'm doing is talking. She wants to silence me!"
They should have opted for the less toxic 60's-era suggestion:
"Uptight, outa-sight, and in the groove".
There was a whole episode in Season 5 of "The Crown" about that.
The season was painful to watch, though the writers can’t really be faulted as the material they had to work with was to blame. Watching the royals in the 90s was bad enough the first time around,
I enjoyed the actress who played Princess Anne, especially her wry delivery of the line as she tried to console her brother after this scandal hit the papers, “It was a bit gynecological for my taste.”
"In our local supermarket, the aisle that used to be called Feminine Hygiene is now called Period Products."
Probably a good idea. A man who needed something on it would probably never think to look there.
I read the headline of the blog post and strongly suspected right away that an insulted transgender complainant had been triggered somewhere and was burning up self-righteous oxygen and being countered by a feminist. Sure enough.
The feminine needs section of the supermarket ought to contain all the greeting cards too.
Old definition of a cottonpicker:
"Woman who can't find the string on her tampax."
btw: back at State U a lovely girl I was messing around with showed me the mechanics of putting the thing in.
One foot on the toilet seat, the other on the floor and ...in it went.
Not in the least weird, exotic or sexy.
Still, it was a major roadblock to the Promised Land.
Ann Althouse said...@tim
The tampon manufacturer is bragging about its access to women's vaginas.
Oh...my...
When they said "you're in their DMs, we're in them," I thought "them" meant the DMs. As in, "you're in their DMs, we're in their DMs too." Which didn't make sense, but I figured I just didn't know the context. Boy howdy, did I not know the context!
That is nuts! I might actually believe the "our system was hacked" excuse this time.
When a vagina becomes a "front hole" you can make all the creepy jokes you want about it. It's no longer attached to a cervix, a womb, or a woman.
It's not even the front-est hole! (And boys can get confused about that, as they do only have the two to work with.)
I'll tell you, I'm both bemused and grossed out by the Charmin ads with the bear family that's all up in one another's butt, commenting on how clean and fresh - or not - it is. "Enjoy the go" indeed...
It's probably me; I haven't watched tv with ads in a long time (kids in town for Thanksgiving so our watching pattern is disrupted) so I probably just didn't notice. But ads in general seem to be much more explicit and deliberately crass these days, as if they're all sitting, "There is nothing to be ashamed of, damn you!" I've never been ashamed of having a period, but I've also never felt it was a bodily function the details of which I needed to broadcast to family, friends, or the general public.
Mad Woman: "That's the tampon that raped me!"
Police: "We know you did it, Tampon! You've got her blood all over you."
Tampon: "I'm innocent! I'm innocent! She was bleeding when I got there."
Newscaster: "We interrupt this criminal report with an important world news bulletin from The New Yorker."
New Yorker: "What we might need to do is blot out the sun."
Newscaster: "And now back to our crime report."
Police: "You're going down, Tampon. We're going to string you up."
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