The
New York Times celebrated the vulgar but the oh-so-young-and-hip social media mockery of pro-life protesters on the front of the Thursday Styles section in “Abortion Rights Activists Take a Youthful Turn,” by Jessica Grose, who is unbelievably the parenting columnist for the paper.
In a TikTok filmed in August outside of a women’s health center in Charlotte, N.C., the uncensored version of the mid-1990s novelty rap song “Short, Short Man,” by Gillette blares: “Eenie weenie teenie weenie shriveled little short, short man.”
The camera is focused on a middle-aged white man in sunglasses, who is holding a poster depicting what appears to be a fetus with the word “abortion” printed on it. The caption on the video reads, “don’t worry, the volume was turned all the way up so he could hear :-)”