Tampax has been criticized for a ‘disgusting’ and ‘inappropriate’ tweet about being ‘into women’ which appears to have been inspired by the notorious ‘Tampongate’ phone call between King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla.
The tampon company has gone viral after putting its own spin on popular ‘You’re in their DMs’ memes about approaching someone flirtatiously on social media, but critics have accused the brand of taking the joke too far.
You are in their DMs. We are in them. We are not the same’, Tampax tweeted on Monday, explicitly referring to how their tampons are used.
The publication has accumulated more than 317,600 likes and 38,500 retweets, which shows that there were a lot of fans, but not all of them were amused by the innuendo.
Tampax has gone viral after putting his own spin on popular ‘You’re in their DMs’ memes about approaching someone flirtatiously on social media.
The tampon company made explicit reference to how its products are used in a tweet on Monday, writing: ‘You’re in their direct messages. We are in them. We are not the same’
‘You are so disgusting and offensive. Only a MAN would tweet this. We’re done here,’ one Twitter user responded, adding the hashtags ‘#boycotttampax’ and ‘#Tampax’.
‘Oh! This is BEYOND inappropriate for a corporation,” someone else agreed, while another noted, “You know young girls use your product, this is so inappropriate.”
Many critics called on the company to remove the tweet, which has yet to be removed, despite protests.
‘Tampax, I know you’re trying to be cute and relevant, but all of this implicitly reinforces the misogynistic idea that menstruation products are sexual in nature. It is harmful to people”, insisted a Twitter user.
The post racked up more than 317,600 likes and 38,500 retweets, showing that there were plenty of fans, but critics accused the brand of going too far.
‘This is misogyny. Delete it. Women and not men are literally being killed for it,” another person added.
However, others found humor in the joke, with one fan commenting that ‘Tampax you need to give your social media manager a raise for these tweets.’
‘Can we laugh at this? Can we laugh? I don’t know the rules anymore,” someone else asked.
Tampax doubled down on retweeting his own joke, saying he “refused to let Twitter shut down before sharing this tweet,” a reference to rumors that the social media platform is shutting down.
The controversial tweet has also been linked to King Charles’s leaked 1989 phone call with future Queen Consort Camilla, shown on season five of ‘The Crown’.
Twitter users accused Tampax of being ‘inappropriate’ and ‘misogynistic’, but the brand ignored the reaction and doubled down on the tweet.
During the intimate conversation, the then-Prince of Wales referred to his reincarnation as a Tampax tampon and told his lover Camilla that he wanted to ‘live inside’ her as they fantasized about being intimate with each other.
‘Oh God. I’ll live in your pants or something. It would be so much easier!’ said Charles, who was married to Princess Diana at the time.
A laughing Camila replied: ‘What are you going to become, a pair of panties? [Both laugh]. Oh, you’re coming back as a pair of panties.
Or, God forbid, a Tampax. Just my luck!’ Charles said, to which Camilla replied, ‘You’re a complete idiot! Oh what a wonderful idea.
The call was recorded by a radio amateur who claimed to have stumbled upon the couple’s conversation while moving between audio channels.
The controversial tweet is believed to be inspired by King Charles’s 1989 leaked phone call with Queen Consort Camilla in 1989. The then-Prince of Wales referred to his reincarnation as a Tampax tampon, telling his lover at the time that I wanted to “live”. inside of her
Carlos was married to Princess Diana when his intimate conversation with Camilla was leaked
The call was recorded by a radio amateur who claimed to have stumbled upon the couple’s conversation while moving between audio channels. The audio recording along with a six-minute transcript of the call was sold to a tabloid and published.
The audio recording along with a six-minute transcript of the call was sold to a tabloid and published. The People syndicated it again in 1993, following Charles and Diana’s split.
Several Twitter users pointed out the similarities between Charles’ conversation with Camilla and Tampax’s bold tweet.
“Yesterday I watched the episode of The Crown when Charles joked about being Camilla’s Tampax and today I watch this,” one person tweeted.
Someone else asked: ‘Sorry, Tampax is doing a “Prince Charles” here and comparing the chills in my DMs to their somewhat toxic product? Ew.
“King Charles has entered the chat and is absorbing this information,” another quipped.
The leaked phone call, which has been dubbed ‘Tampongate’, is back in the headlines after appearing on the fifth season of ‘The Crown’. Dominic West and Olivia Williams star as Charles and Camilla in the latest installment of the Netflix series, which premiered this month.
Several Twitter users pointed out the similarities between Charles’ conversation with Camilla and Tampax’s bold tweet while poking fun at the situation.
There has been renewed interest in Tampongate, also known as ‘Camillagate’, after it was revealed last month that the conversation would be featured extensively in the new season of ‘The Crown’.
Dominic West and Olivia Williams play Charles and Camilla in the Netflix series, which has been criticized for the “rude” and “tacky” decision to portray the call.
West shared that he has he changed his mind about the conversation after previously feeling it was “seedy and deeply, deeply embarrassing.”
“Looking back and having to play it, what you’re aware of is that it wasn’t the fault of these two people, two lovers, who were having a private conversation,” he said. entertainment weekly.
‘What is really [clear now] it’s how invasive and disgusting the press attention was, that they printed it verbatim and you could call a number and listen to the actual tape. I think he made me extremely understanding of the two of them and what they had been through.
He added that Williams also has sympathy for the queen consort, saying they both wanted to “do the right thing” with the couple.