Not Thinking

After seeing the ad for Libra tampons (Australian company) where a drag queen is playing a transwoman (presumably post-transition) in the women's restroom with a (genetic) woman get into a "war" fixing their makeup and adjusting their clothes when the (genetic) woman pulls out a tampon and the other "woman" says she won, it's not hard to understand the reaction.

What person thought up putting a drag queen in place of a transwoman in the ad? It's clear from the ad which woman is which, mostly because many post-transition women are very normal looking and not caricatures of women as drag queens portray women. And many (trans)women do carry sanitary products, in part because they do have vaginas with some similar personal issues as (genetic) women.

But what's stupidier is the drag queen is unapologetic over her protrayal of the "woman", saying she didn't play it as a transwomen, but as (gay man) drag queen. She didn't realize the ad was to portray a post-transition woman? Why? Because maybe, as we know the ad was meant to distinguish "real" women from transwomen, and simply put, the ad is, or was now, transphobic, to depict transwomen and less than women because of one characteristic.

Never mind there are intersex other women who don't need or use tampons for a variety of reasons. If they wanted a woman realistic for the ad, why not look at Harisu who has done ads for women's products? Or any beautiful transwoman? But they wouldn't do that because there wouldn't be the obvious difference the audience could easily see. What a concept, just women, some who use tampons and some who don't.

Gee, that would make a better ad. The woman pulls out a tampon and the other woman pulls out a panty liner. Just personal choice.