{"id":1748417,"date":"2022-11-22T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748417"},"modified":"2022-11-22T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:32:58","slug":"disgusting-and-creepy-tampax-boycott-trends-after-bizarre-tweet-from-the-brand-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgusting-and-creepy-tampax-boycott-trends-after-bizarre-tweet-from-the-brand-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disgusting And Creepy\u2019: Tampax Boycott Trends After Bizarre Tweet From The Brand Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisgusting-and-creepy-tampax-boycott-trends-after-bizarre-tweet-from-the-brand-goes-viral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The feminine product brand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tampons\">Tampax<\/a> was trending on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> Tuesday as some followers demanded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/boycott\">boycott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tampax had already come under fire this year due to its leftist ideology and willingness to promote gender theory. This time, Tampax is taking heat for a strange and snarky tweet that some have interpreted as trolling men, though the intended audience is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re in their DM\u2019s. We\u2019re in them. We are not the same,\u201d the tweet read, seemingly referencing that tampons go inside women and are closer to those individuals than the men trying to hit on them.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You&#8217;re in their DMs. We&#8217;re in them. <br \/>We are not the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampax US (@Tampax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tampax\/status\/1594719218632720385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Followers were outraged at this sentiment, which they claimed was \u201csexualizing\u201d tampon usage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeak patriarchy: a company making women\u2019s products insults its entire customer base and thinks this is OK. You utter creeps,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeedaGin\/status\/1595046216559398912\">shared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA women\u2019s period products company is getting off on the idea of their products being inserted in girls and women \u2013 getting there first \u2013 while men are chatting them up hoping for sex. Overtones of rape, [pedophilia], misogyny \u2013 what a hat-trick,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A44955679\/status\/1595065315557347331\">agreed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo\u2026A tampon is saying \u2013 to a dude framed as a sexual rival to the tampon \u2013 basically, \u2018hey, bro. You\u2019re too slow. I totally *hit* that already. How do you like THEM apples\u2019 And this is supposed to appeal to your customers in some way?\u201d another person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pullingthreads5\/status\/1594907652139671558\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s disgusting and creepy,\u201d another reaction <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nosoup4knowles\/status\/1594871178078081025\">read<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many outraged users pointed out how girls as young as 11 were likely to use tampons, which they claimed made the sexual joke even more inappropriate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The social media fight evolved into some users accusing critics of being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\">transphobes<\/a>\u201d for insisting on a boycott and taking offense to the joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas anyone else noticed that the people screaming #BoycottTampax aren\u2019t really upset about the joke? They\u2019re actually a bunch of transphobic bigots attacking a company that showed support for a group of people they like to be cruel to,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Elepitts1997\/status\/1595101115074633728\">wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another brought up the recent mass shooting inside a Colorado gay bar, saying anyone advocating for a Tampax boycott is also disrespecting the magnitude of that tragedy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much #TransHate in the #BoycottTampax trend,\u201d that person shared. \u201cAnd only two days after an [sic] horrific hate crime against the LGBTQ community. You all should be ashamed of your denial of human rights to individuals, many of them very young, trying to live safe live [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September 2020, Tampax inspired controversy by posting a tweet that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tampax\/status\/1305952342504767491\">said<\/a>, \u201cFact: Not all women have periods. Also a fact: Not all people with periods are women. Let\u2019s celebrate the diversity of all people who bleed!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feminine product brand Tampax was trending on Twitter Tuesday as some followers demanded a boycott. Tampax had already come under fire this year due to its leftist ideology and willingness to promote gender theory. This time, Tampax is taking heat for a strange and snarky tweet that some have interpreted as trolling men, though &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1748420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}