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Cooter is a Black dialectal term for a turtle originating from the Mandinka language, and you can see a turtle on the logo of that product.



Hahaha, wow. The other products on that page do a wonderful job of disagreeing with parent’s explanation.


There's a "one eyed snake" product too, why are we not complaining about how men will be driven from the profession with such sexist talk?


Sexualizing the product name at all is more hostile to women than the reference is hostile to men.


Are you suggesting women are less able to take hostilities than men ? Since now we have inuendos from both.


I'm suggesting that the "inuendos from both" is the wrong analysis and that the workplace issue would be the sexualization of the product name being used as a tool to harass women (there would probably also be comments made to men, but harassment would predominantly be towards women).


Context matters. In a 95% male profession, making hostile comments about women is absolutely more of an issue than similar comments about men. And vice versa in a predominantly female profession.


Hostilities from men towards women are much more dangerous and women have the correct response to be more vigilant about them.


Then why are men and women treated equally at all?


This is the right question


I’m glad someone is here to argue on behalf of the cooter snot company.


What is the Mandinka people’s relation the Camel Toe and One-Eyed Snake products advertised on the website?


that's called "plausible deniability"


Deniability for accurate and true reasons is just a subset of plausible deniability


Are turtles also known for their snot, in which tips are frequently dipped?


No, but the substance looks like blue snot and you dip the hot tip in it.




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