Twitter roasts MLB player for mansplaining birth control to Jessica Chastain
If you come at the Queen, you best not miss.
That's the important lesson MLB player Matt Garza learnt when he tried to "educate" actress, activist and all around boss, Jessica Chastain, on birth control.
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It all went down after Chastain tweeted her dismay about changes to U.S. health insurance policy.
#BirthControl is no longer covered by health insurance. Congrats USA, you're doing your part to keep women out of the work force. #smfh 😠
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) January 13, 2017
If you are not ready to provide for a family, if you want to finish school, if you want to build a career, protect yourself. #IUD @PPact
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) January 13, 2017
Garza, evidently a champion mansplainer, decided to jump in.
It's called abstinence, a word that has been forgotten amongst this generation... it's the best contraceptive... #juatsaying https://t.co/OgKg1qQmln
— Matt garza (@Gdeuceswild) January 13, 2017
There's a lot to unpack in that one tweet. Luckily, Twitter was up for the job.
The first and most obvious criticism was that Garza himself became a father at the tender age of 18. How's that for hypocrisy?
.@Gdeuceswild Yeahhh. How many ppl do you know who are abstinent? Don't lecture women about abstinence...especially when you had a kid at 18
— Nick Bolton (@NickBolton13) January 13, 2017
Matt Garza has 6 kids and became a father when he was a teenager. This generation tho, man. https://t.co/M0F6OJCFf8
— bobby daniels (@BobbyJDaniels) January 13, 2017
BECAUSE MATT GARZA, FATHER OF 6, (FIRST CHILD AT 18) IS THE REAL SPOKESMAN OF ABSTINENCE ONLY 🖕🏻
— e. (@NIIGHTWlNGS) January 13, 2017
So @Gdeuceswild knocks up a girl at 18 and then preaches to @jes_chastain about abstinence? Smh 🤔
— Animal Farm Magazine (@AnimalFarmMag) January 16, 2017
The second cluster of criticism centred around the audacity of a man lecturing a woman about her body on the internet — something that seems to happen only once every half a second.
@iFlopSets @Gdeuceswild @jes_chastain so glad you know what is good and bad for girls PLEASE TELL ME MORE pic.twitter.com/lju49p4nTS
— Stangle's Kid (@lisasaurstomp) January 13, 2017
@EthanBearman I take birth control due to an illness, not for pregnancy prevention. Matt Garza is a knob.
— Miss Goodas (@missgoodas) January 17, 2017
@iFlopSets @lisasaurstomp @Gdeuceswild @jes_chastain awesome advice from a guy that doesn't have a uterus!
— Rad Wolf MacAwesome (@RadMacawesome) January 13, 2017
Thanks Matt Garza! I really needed some Grade A mansplaining today.
— Keely Flanagan (@keely_flanagan) January 13, 2017
@Gdeuceswild good point. I just have a hamper full of filthy socks and my wife sits on the washing machine 12-6 pm and we're doing great
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) January 13, 2017
And finally, as things got messier and messier, people just started dragging Garza's playing.
@Gdeuceswild Matt, if you ever get to the postseason on your trash team, maybe abstain from giving up 4 runs in six innings like you did last time.
— Wesley Funcrusher (@wesleyfuncrushe) January 13, 2017
@Gdeuceswild You play for the Brewers. What do you know about birth control OR baseball?
— Caroline Dohack (@CarolineDohack) January 14, 2017
Oooof. That is a perfect storm of criticism you've just endured, Matt. Nobody messes with Chastain.
how on earth did I miss this Matt Garza thing, and also, why did I have to see this Matt Garza thing
— keithlaw (@keithlaw) January 14, 2017
