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Fashion YouTuber discussing her discomfort with Trans women promoting tampons

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CharlotteSometimes1 · 27/01/2023 17:30

I haven’t seen a thread highlighting this, but it was posted on YT a week ago so maybe I’ve missed it.

Frederique Bros is a fashion YouTuber with 223 thousand subscribers and she posted a video talking about trans women and NB people promoting tampons. She’s making no bones about thinking it’s wrong and the comments are largely in agreement.

This isn’t a political pundit, or activist but a woman speaking out in the mainstream. I never thought I’d see the day, so thought you might like to see too.

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FictionalCharacter · 27/01/2023 21:27

It’s good, but she only partly gets it. I don’t think she understands quite how much Dylan is taking the piss, and that he’s a fetishist. Women don’t get giddily excited waving tampons at the camera like that. He’s laughing in our faces, while a legion of young women fawn over him.
She talks about having no problem with the people who transition to be a “full woman”, which isn’t possible.

Delphinium20 · 27/01/2023 21:08

She'd so cool! And I love how she gets her point across while kinda laughing at the absurdity, "I'd know you were a man straightaway."

MorvenOfMalvern · 27/01/2023 20:31

DarkDayforMN · 27/01/2023 19:00

I really like her! And her accent is so charming.

Jeffrey Marsh though. How can someone so hammily villainous actually be a real person? He’s like a baddie in a children’s movie. Thank goodness for her reactions, I couldn’t have borne even that short clip of him if it weren’t for the faces she was pulling.

Me too, she's great! I want her as a chic friend! I love that top and the touched waist too (am hopeless with clothes but I can aspire).

MorvenOfMalvern · 27/01/2023 20:24

I've never known anyone describing periods as gross and disgusting and I would never ever use that language around my teen and ore teen daughters. How dare he lecture is?

I stopped buying Tampax as a result of the Dylan shite and the awful, awful twitter stuff. It was hard because I struggled to find super plus in other brands. Luckily I'm now the proud owner of an iud and can manage with period pants. Will never buy them for my girls ever now.

Sweetlikechocolate6 · 27/01/2023 19:06

I would love a man to have to go through the cramps the upset stomachs dizziness nausea headaches mood swings general feeling of being dirty women have to go through every bloody month if not using contraception and these assholes think it’s something they can just lie about for their own creepy weird fetishes

DarkDayforMN · 27/01/2023 19:00

I really like her! And her accent is so charming.

Jeffrey Marsh though. How can someone so hammily villainous actually be a real person? He’s like a baddie in a children’s movie. Thank goodness for her reactions, I couldn’t have borne even that short clip of him if it weren’t for the faces she was pulling.

2bazookas · 27/01/2023 18:31

No sanpro manufacturer will damage their brand by association with anyone who describes periods as "gross, disgusting".

Yet again, fetishists give away their core agenda is misogyny, degrading and insulting real women.

Boiledbeetle · 27/01/2023 18:23

Although I'm not sure if he was trying to be

Boiledbeetle · 27/01/2023 18:23

I've got to say the young lad doing the unboxing video of a packet of tampax pearl was actually really funny.

The first two 🤐

WarriorN · 27/01/2023 18:06

Last guy just looked like a 13 year old messing about with tampons being an idiot like they do

WarriorN · 27/01/2023 18:05

Ugh, she's right, 'no darling you're not a woman'

Malariahilaria · 27/01/2023 18:05

Very good point on it always being about tampons. That sickening little chap on tiktok squealing 'eeww like where do I even put this thing' gives me the rage. Many responses saying 'up a vagina, which you don't have'.

notanicepersonapparently · 27/01/2023 18:04

@CharlotteSometimes1 Thanks for posting this. I’ve watched some YouTube videos by her before but strangely YouTube haven’t ‘suggested’ this one to me.

notanicepersonapparently · 27/01/2023 18:03

@Chersfrozenface thats a very good point. Also I wonder whether tamax would pay a man (non trans for the sake of clarification) to be an ally of women and say how he always has tampons to hand for his female friends?

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CharlotteSometimes1 · 27/01/2023 18:00

Chersfrozenface · 27/01/2023 17:46

And you'll notice it isn't ever about pads, is it?

Always tampons.

I wonder why.

Good point!

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Chersfrozenface · 27/01/2023 17:46

And you'll notice it isn't ever about pads, is it?

Always tampons.

I wonder why.

Cheekymaw · 27/01/2023 17:41

Good on her ! Sick of creeps treating menstruation as a fetish.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 27/01/2023 17:39

These men are grim with their obsession about women and our periods. Well done her for calling this out - if ever there's a week for educating the public about the extent of gaslighting of women by creepy men, this is it!