this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
2223 points (98.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

7899 readers
5203 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd bet it's also a double entendre for something that roughly means "bad guys". Assuming combattre probably has the same root as combat, the post has a cadence like "fight the transphobes with the tits!"

I also don't know French but guessing at it seemed fun

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pretty good yes. ToTon is the Québec version of têton (tits) And and calling someone ToTon is about equivalent to dumbass. It's a play on fighting fire with fire. Maybe you could changeto Guess-tephan

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I ugly laughed at Guess-tephan :) thankyou for that

[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're mostly right. To call someone a "toton" is an insult to that person's intelligence. It's also a derivative of the word "téton", which means tit.
"Combattre" is also effectively the verb "to fight".