Transwoman claims Tampax have offered sponsorship

Ugh, he just wants attention, don’t give it to him.

we are seen as emotional support humans. This might explain the immense rage I see online directed against any woman who rebels against that role. It's like a service dog turning and biting its owner.

Lynn, thanks for perfectly expressing what I've been thinking about but hadn't seen clearly enough to put into words. That's exactly how they see us. Treacherous animals that are meant to serve them.

I’ve said this before but Dylan has been trying to get famous (as a gay man) for ages on tiktok as a sort of influencer. Loads of ploys, making videos about their father’s drug addictions, videos about different things etc. Then suddenly Dylan is a girl and is getting lots of attention.

Have just watched a bit of Dylan after seeing a comment on Twitter and feel that there's a fair bit of piss-taking going on. Suspect that Dylan is not quite as dippy as Dylan appears.

"Plenty of cis girls don't have periods/can't get pregnant/have a beard/can't produce enough vaginal wetness to have sex without lube/have to dilate/don't have wide hips/are born without wombs too!"

I know this is something used as justification. However anyone with those issues have a medical problem it isn’t the standard.

Elsevier have a new product which shows how different women are morphologically.

www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/nursing-and-health-education/elsevier-launches-complete-anatomy-female-model-the-most-advanced-full-female-anatomy-model

@Fhortu
I totally agree. The one that makes my blood boil is the false equivalence between a male who wants to be called a women and a women who's had a hysterectomy. The argument that losing your womb doesn't stop you from being a woman, ergo, not having a womb because of the whole being born make thing, makes the two the same. My mother had a hysterectomy, loosing part of her anatomy didn't stop her from being the same beautiful woman she always was. Just the same as it didn't suddenly make my father a woman just because they were now both without a uterus.

Just caught up with this discussion and I’m disappointed this comment did not get the attention it deserved

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I’m a bit worried he’s holding it to his (sorry her) face. Do they not know where you use these products? Maybe they suffer from nose bleeds?

if they can't figure out how to center a point on them, they dismiss it and say its not relevant to being a woman.

They do the opposite too. One of them will say they have dysphoria over being 6 foot 4 and built like a brick shithouse and the replies come in saying, "Loads of cis women are tall and broad too!"

In response to any post about dysphoria over sex differences, you'll find, "Plenty of cis girls don't have periods/can't get pregnant/have a beard/can't produce enough vaginal wetness to have sex without lube/have to dilate/don't have wide hips/are born without wombs too!"

I think more than anything I hate the parallel some transwomen draw between themselves and infertile women. It's especially tasteless when said transwoman has already fathered children.

@Robinni
Because that's what they do. Plonk themselves in the centre of every discussion about women and if they can't figure out how to center a point on them, they dismiss it and say its not relevant to being a woman.

i could understand a transman being asked - always axed their woman symbol from packaging a few years ago to accommodate transmen….. but transwomen I just don’t get why they need to get involved here. 🤷‍♀️

For some reason they had comments off on that Insta post. How extraordinary.

Ooh, I feel so validated, I'm a real girl!. This must be the joy all the other girls feel when it's time to spend a week cramping and bleeding.

Judging by the poses here, JM isn't sure what to do with them. Looks like an embarrassed knitwear model in a vintage knitting pattern.

For your enjoyment, I've scrounged up a direct link to JM holding pack of winged pads

Wonder what JM uses his pads for? Answers on a postcode

This is just idiotic… America has a lot to answer for. What an absolute mess.

In the pictures I've seen, JM poses with a pack of liners, and a pack of winged pads.

Here is JM holding a pack of 42 pads with wings.

I know right?! Boggles my head.

Said diversity does not include Jeffrey and never will. Not even when JM wears JM's they/them earrings.

What product were they endorsing? Transwomen have no need of tampons and it is biologically impossible that they get symptoms akin to women - they have no womb!! The world has gone mad.

From their website
"At L. we are working to highlight the beautiful diversity of people who have periods and their mission to make space for voices"

Oh fu*k right off.

Well, this much smaller company which sells period products thisisl.com/ did a paid partnership with non-binary male person Jeffrey Marsh. So it's not like we can take it for granted that Tampax wouldn't.

Erm I’m not looking to check boxes….

I’m just personally pissed off that Tampax haven’t either

a) taken ownership for what they’ve done
b) explained they never tried to work with Dylan , and never would.

Because it is pussyfooting around the whole issue… the primary people Tampax should be supporting are women.

And I care more about their response because they are a multi million pound company with a 29% market share for tampons…. So if they start behaving like not offending trans people is more important than standing up for women this is a very bad thing.

People can get their knickers in a twist about Dylan all day long. But they have very little sway overall. I’m interested in what the big guns have to say for themselves. It’s more important.

I get really tired of 'let this person say outrageous, insulting and offensive things without consequence because....'

No. If you want to exercise your right say very stupid things on social media, that are offensive and ridiculous, you also have to be prepared for others to exercise their right to tell you what they think.

Women aren't mummy. They're not a professional organisation with responsibility to go check all the facts carefully before they decide that they have sufficient grounds to get pissed off and say so. I am done with this whole power imbalance and the expectation that male people can just be loose canons but female people mustn't react until they've ticked a whole lot of good girl boxes first.

No. Frankly female people have very little left to lose now.