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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours 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 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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 3 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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".

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes "Fight boobs with boobs!" would be a good English equivalent.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago