How a Tampon Company’s Tweet Ignited Calls to #BoycottTampax

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A social-media firestorm ignited when a Monday tweet from Tampax's Twitter account was branded “rapey,” “grotesque,” and “peak patriarchy” by scores of users who united behind the hashtag “BoycottTampax. Here's how the situation unfolded:

“Peak patriarchy: a company making women’s products insults its entire customer base and thinks this is OK,” one user“Well done for sexualising tampons.

Several users bashing the brand took the opportunity to resurrect a Sept. 2020 tweet from Tampax about period diversity. “Fact: Not all women have periods,” the brand’s Twitter account . “Also a fact: Not all people with periods are women. Let’s celebrate the diversity of all people who bleed!”on Tuesday, attaching the 2020 post. “Already there for me after this post previously came out. All humans are ‘people that bleed,’ only female humans experience periods & we deserve humanizing words…those words are women & girls. If some reject those words, it doesn’t change reality.

That kind of language—excluding transgender and non-binary people who experience menstruation but do not identify as female—was widespread through the #BoycottTampax tag. “Who’s ‘their’?” one userAlso rife in the tag were vitriolic barbs directed at social media influencers Dylan Mulvaney and Jeffrey Marsh, who identify as transgender and non-binary, respectively.

 

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There's 100's of 'gross' tweets get over it & move on with your life & stop worrying about what everyone else is saying or doing. We're all assholes that talk mad shit so don't try to be Mr & Mrs I'm Perfect I Have No Flaws blah blah blah!

'Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.' --Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

I thought it was kinda funny🤷‍♀️

No one can take a goddamn joke anymore.

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