AIBU to find this tampax ad just a bit creepy?

[MrsHMarsh]

Or am I just an old stick in the mud? It really gives me the creeps, are they actually comparing a tampon to a dick?

How is it funny? The statement is aimed at men, treating women as sexual objects. Actually, 12/13 year old girls too. It's disgusting and demeaning.

That’s how I read it. Just adds a lovely bit of icing to the turd. 😒

And all the young teenage girls on there are nodding along with it to seem cool and non offensive, it’s all very ironic and backwards though. NORMALISE PERIODs errrr are we in the sixties, has this suddenly become a big issues about periods being not normal?

Grim.

Also at least (most) penises stay in and don’t shoot out at the gentlest sneeze

They even reply to some weirdo who asks them to make flavoured ones, they just say ‘no’ but why would you reply to that at all? And their tweet ‘ I woke up today and chose violence’ I know it’s just a saying for causing chaos but they just seem to give off such a creepy and aggressive vibe. Really unpleasant.

It’s grim, and obviously written by a man.
I’m curious who follows tampax though - can’t say it’d be on my list of companies to follow.

@Theluggage15 I know, I was thinking that violence tweet was odd.

I swear society is regressing. Do you think girls are made to feel it's unclean and unhygienic by boys who get have a skewed (pornified) view of girls and women?

@OmiOmy Me and my friends were just talking about this, it is backwards isn’t it. It’s possible it’s something like that.

Just no

Thankfully receiving backlash in the media too.

Gross. Mooncups are the future. Tampons give you toxic shock.

it's gross 💩

Someone in their social and comms team needs to be getting their arse kicked for that.

I don’t find it funny and think it’s both gross and distasteful.

'Imploding' is so much better than 'hysterical'. I mean it's still telling women how to feel but it's a tad less misogynistic.

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The “choosing violence” thing…… what’s that about?

Playing devils advocate I suppose one could take it that women should feel empowered and take no shit…..

Or…… hormone driven women are dangerous and irrational?

Seems very odd…..

It's plural language, not gender-neutral.

Yes, whatever, my point was that the language choice hides quite how creepy it is, as well as making it less easy to understand, as the person I replied to said.

That’s grim.

It's an awful tweet! But to help explain it's based on a meme which started in 2019.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-are-not-the-same

So strange that a company whose product is targeted at a 100% female customer base chooses to do these "boys will be boys" meme jokes. Apart from being sexist/in poor taste it's also quite poor as actual marketing. You should be talking to your customer and cater to them, not joke about "them" with other market groups.