Tampax’s Tweet

[DogsAkimbo]

Am I misunderstanding how foul this tweet is? People seem to be feting them for it.

Where did I say I didn’t understand it? What are you even talking about

Creepy and not funny

Yes, you have perfectly summarised the problem with this horrible tweet.

FML I'm glad I'm not on Twitter. What a bunch of immature assholes. Tampax should hang their heads

The women as 'them' in this tweet, while tweeting about getting into women's vaginas?

On a product specifically for women?

Yeah personifying a tampon as a dick. Lovely.

Tampax jumping in on a usually misogynistic meme / joke trend is not helping to make the optics on this better. In this case, they are the same.

Big difference between being in someone's phone and being in their vagina @ItsBritneyBitch45

"Surely the majority of people following Tampax are women?" Are they? I'd be interested to know the ratio of followers and 'likes' for this - women and girls vs males who get their rocks off thinking about women using period products. The person who posted this tweet, and still hasn't taken it down despite the outcry from women and girls, is surely male.

What is misogynistic about the running joke? I’m genuinely asking as I’ve never found it misogynistic.

I also always see women saying the same joke about men on my TL. I personally don’t think every single thing needs to be labelled as misogynistic but maybe I’m missing a point

Fair enough. There are many things I don’t label misogynistic. There’s not enough space here to list them all 😀

My personal reason to find this type of joke misogynistic is because it’s based on the idea of levels of competition on who is closer to ‘scoring’ sexually with women. Women become the object of the joke. Object being the operative word. It’s very high on my list of the definition of misogyny. Aimed at men it’s not brilliant but men are not oppressed on the basis of their biology so I can’t get too worried on that front.

Yup.
Creepy as fuck.

Pleased to see it getting backlash in the media now too.

shouldn't it be talking TO women rather about them? why is Tampax bragging to men about who is better at getting into womens vaginas??

From the tweets I saw, half of them think people are objecting to some association with Dylan Mulvaney (which I don't know anything about), & the other half think people are objecting to the use of 'their' instead of 'her' - neither of which appears to be true.

Meanwhile, there are men who think that anything that annoys women is screamingly funny & must be defended, & women who think that saying they understand it & find it funny shows they're cool. Meh.

I'm happy to report that I used Lil-lets throughout my fertile life, never Tampax.

There’s a particularly gruesome bit of The Crown where they dramatised the transcript of the Tampax phone call between Charles Windsor and Mrs Parker-Bowles.

I wonder if that’s influenced this Tweet?

It’s gruesome, whatever.

I did rather like a comment on their feed that read:

‘congrats Tampax, you’ve managed to out creep the creep who was in my dm’s’

Sums it up for me

Bro 'humour' with tampons. Lovely.

It’s not exactly gruesome, it’s just stupid.

They have a very weird view of their own product. Tampax are used by girls from age 9, how can this be anything other than utterly disgusting

Hmm fair enough. I don’t think it’s that serious at all but thanks for explaining

Thanks to Britney I realise it’s not that serious ohh.

I found the tweet hard to grasp and i want previously familiar with the meme, so i googled the basic structure of this meme style, and the result of that makes me think we're partially misunderstanding the tweet. The line "we're in them" is still so, so gross, but the 1st and 2nd lines of the structure of this meme are meant to show difference. So tras are in our dms. Tampons are in us, these two are not the same. I take that to mean these are two different things that should not be mixed up, and therefore a somewhat gross attempt to show that women have periods.

I’m not being rude but it’s not that complex.

The meme is basically oneupmanship.

An example in the real world would be

Hey Gary you geek you’re still busy messaging that hot girl Sophie? I was in her bed last night! Me and you are not the same Bro!

That’s it.

A big sanitary product company basically made a penetration joke about a hygiene product.

It’s all good, we were definitely needing another brick in the culture pyramid for this sort of thing. Let’s be accepting and let this one slide.

Also take into account the subsequent tweets from Tampax saying they were saving that tweet and were after ‘violence’, why post such goady and defensive tweets after posting an innocent post?