Former Collingwood champion Dane Swan has obtained searing criticism on-line after he tried to disgrace males for getting tampons, whereas inadvertently revealing he didn’t know what tampons regarded like.
The 2011 Brownlow Medallist posted an image to Twitter on Wednesday of grocery store cabinets stacked with males’s protecting underwear, however appeared to assert the objects have been tampons.
“It’s been some day folks cause today is the day I learnt that men can buy tampons. I’ve now officially seen it all,” he captioned the tweet, which has not been deleted.
“This photo contains zero tampons,” a person rapidly replied.
“Dane, my dude, I reckon you’ve gotta get some tampons (not these things) to stick up your nose to prevent whatever brains you may have left from falling out of your head,” one other lady wrote.
The protecting underwear within the {photograph} included male incontinence pads, that are utilized by males with pelvic flooring and prostate points typically as a consequence of illness and outdated age.
Brien Seeney, a physiotherapist who runs the extremely well-liked NRL Physio account on Twitter, steered Swan was being hypocritical along with his tweet.
“Thought you were an advocate for men’s health,” Mr Seeney wrote.
“It’s a struggle to get men suffering from pelvic floor and prostate issues to not feel self conscious about using these vital products as it is without you posting this rubbish.”
Collingwood supporters additionally expressed their disappointment with Swan’s social media submit, describing it as “absolute imbecile stuff”.
Swan’s solely reply amid the social media storm was to his Swanny and Friends podcast co-host Ralph Horowitz, who had stated the podcast had “herd immunity” from getting cancelled.
“Don’t be so sure, Ralph, that is my New Year’s resolution,” Swan wrote.
Swan was on Wednesday introduced because the star visitor participant for a small membership on the South Australian Limestone Coast.
He will play for Nangwarry in spherical one of many 2023 season. His controversial supervisor Ricky Nixon has revealed Swan has additionally agreed to 2 different one-off video games with golf equipment but to be named.
