Transwoman claims Tampax have offered sponsorship

Hey @hutchy16 - I "don't have anything nice to say" - bore off with your condescending sexist nonsense.

I first mistyped sanitary towels as sanitary trowels...
They sound comfortable.

Sanitary towels would make more sense as everyone can use those but not everyone can use tampons.

I first mistyped sanitary towels as sanitary trowels...

I’m an actual woman. I’m 45 years old. I’d say I’ve been asked for a tampon by a stranger once, maybe twice in my life. This didn’t happen. Gross

Yes, I have noticed this. I wonder why? 🤔

My ex husband apparently carries a pack of pads in the glove compartment of his car, because several years ago dd1 unexpectedly started her period whilst travelling somewhere, & he had to pull in at a service station to buy her some. She had pads at his house, so the rest of the 'emergency' packet stayed in the car after they arrived there.

She & her younger sister have settled cycles these days & are accustomed to sorting themselves out, & find it quite funny that he's still driving around with the same dusty pack of pads lurking under the chewing gum & god knows what.

But y'know, fair play to him. His dd was caught out, he sorted the immediate problem without fuss, & he's left the rest of the pack in his car lest it ever happen again.

If he were offering them out to random women, I think an entirely different construction would be placed on this.

I saw the original tiktok and thought what a load of bullshit. I have irregular periods and I'm not well organized but would never ask a stranger for a sanitary product. What is it was a child or elderly lady in the next cubicle. I do what I thought everyone else did and shove a wad of toilet roll in my knickers until I could go to the shop or ask a friend.

They have also been on tiktok recently crying about some of the negative responses. I originally thought it was a parody account, they don't seem genuine.

I went to an all-girls school and was never asked for a tampon/pad there, when you're more likely to be caught short since things might not have settled yet. We just whacked in a load of loo roll and thanked fuck our kilts were red.

It has been for a very long time, even 20 years ago I remember my friend telling me how her transsexual friends would carry tampons, it’s all part of the illusion / thrill of passing.

Or buy one from the little machine almost all public toilets have then get annoyed with yourself that you’ve paid £1 for one tampon. I’ve made do many a times with the loo roll in an emergency.

However, if you’ve seen Dylan’s TikTok, quite a few unusual and unlikely things seem to happen to them. For example, when changing in the male gym room, a man apparently entered and was shocked/embarrassed, saying ‘sorry I thought this was the men’s room!’ Following that, Dylan used the women’s room and apparently made ‘friends’ with a woman changing in there. Firstly a bit unbelievable that a man apparently mistook Dylan for a woman, and secondly I’ve never made friends while getting changed for yoga. I’m generally just getting changed for yoga.

Conveniently, when confronted about sexist bullshit, Dylan says 'this video is satire comedy!'

So if I, as a white woman, started doing Tik Tok videos taking the piss out of offensive stereotypes about black people in the name of 'satire comedy', that would be ok? I would get loads of black people lauding me in the comments and telling me how great I was?

^^ Absolutely this 💯

Yeah I don't carry around tampons because despite what the woman says in the stupid advert not only can I feel them, they bloody (haha) hurt.

...Dylan managed that...

Sorry!

Never in my life have I been asked for a tampon in a public loo.

Never in my life have a asked a random "fellow" woman for tampon in a public loo.

Never in my life have I "shyly" said anything in a public loo.

I must have led a very sheltered woman life over the last decades seing as managed that on day 47 or being a girl.

I’ve heard of many a cis-gendered male carrying sanitary products in their cars or bags, just in case one of their friends gets caught out…

Cool story bro.

I’ve heard of many a cis-gendered male carrying sanitary products in their cars or bags, just in case one of their friends gets caught out…they always get talked about like heroes for their understanding.

WHAT? Like bollocks you have heard of that! 😂

I have had a couple of people ask for a tampon or towel when they have had an emergency, but these were friends not strangers in a public toilet. I use a mooncup now, so anyone asking me would be out of luck because guess what, people that don't use tampons don't tend to carry them round with them just in case someone else needs them. Especially not blokes.

This is straight up appropriation of womanhood. It would be completely unacceptable for any other class of people, so why is it OK for women?

Never known a male in my life to carry tampons either, in fact many women consider themselves lucky if their partner in will even buy it for them without complaint which says it all.

This comment says it all:

Growing up all I wanted was to be a boy, I was going to join the army and drive a tank. These days it's non-binary, back then was androgynous. I'm sexually straight, married and have a child. I still don't identify as female, nothing so called "feminine" about me

FGS! You do not have to be feminine to be a woman and if you’re a male person there’s nothing stopping you being feminine either.

Dylan says “That was back when I knew very much that I wanted to be a girl or some version of feminine”. I find it incredibly sad that Dylan and people like Dylan feel they have to find the right label in order to have permission to be feminine. Why on Earth is Dylan paying any attention to gender norms like that? It’s so regressive.

As for the tampons, I’ve never been asked for one either. It just sounds so sad - in both senses of the word.

Also never been asked for a tampon in the 25 years I’ve been having periods.

And they say it’s not a fetish

Noone asks their male friends for tampons or asks their " fellow women" for tampons in public toilets. It just doesnt happen.
Male fantasy.

Yes. Almost as if you're a bit-player in the role playing fantasy of someone else, no?