Rant

[pixiecrinkle]

Another thing I keep seeing in various places: women apologizing to "guys" for any mention of menstrual products. I'm not talking about in depth discussions of gushing blood, which should probably be cut in the interest of protecting the squeamish of both genders, but rather someone uses a phrase such as "She asked me for a tampon", then says "sorry guys -- lol."

If said guys are that offended, I don't understand how they can watch television or walk into a grocery store, so I think their problems are larger than we can handle here.

Comments

[pennywhistle.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate that. As much as I hate the commercials for "quiet" wrappers. It's a fact of life! It's nothing to be embarrassed about! Sheesh.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the quiet wrapper thing is unreal!!! Who on earth sits in a bathroom listening to what other people are doing??

That reminds me--I've seen a tampon commercial that actually doesn't bug me as much as most of them lately. It's got a teacher asking a girl to bring up what he thinks is a note to the front of the class. She hands him the tampon and he, thinking it's candy (that's the crap part--it's "small" and "unnoticeable") asks her if she has enough for everyone in the class. I like it because the girl herself is very confident the whole time, which I think would have been a good example for me at that age!

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

Quiet wrappers?

sheesh.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I only apologize after I've described menstrual effluvia in great detail, without a cut or warning. Tampons, though? piffle.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

I have always loved the word "effluvia" ever since a friend of mine got into grad school with a paper about sexual effluvia in Tess of the D'ubervilles.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

When I am Queen, any guy who has trouble with the word "tampon" will not be allowed near women. I mean, after all, if anything even remotely related to menstruation is that yucky, why this just protects those poor put-upon guys. It's for their benefit. Really.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

Exactly, your highness. :-)

Thing is, I don't actually know any guys who are that sensitive, so I just feel bad for these women who apologize, because they obviously need new male friends.

[octobrianaoz.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere, the idea that if men had periods, they'd brag about how much blood they passed, and "tough" it all was, and any supporting products would be loudly displayed. ;^)

[yerpretty.livejournal.com]

sadly, that's probably true.