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From: techpub@mhuxt.UUCP (mcgrew)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: Re: feminine "protection"
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:44:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:44:29 1984
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> 
> OK, well, I agree with you then, pads, tampons and toilet paper serve similar
> purposes.  So why isn't toilet paper advertised as "protection" then?
> Obviously if we are to be protected against these kind of things, we need
> much more protection against the icky stuff that comes out behind us then
> from the icky stuff that comes out in the front, since the former is much
> more smelly, and comes out much more often.  How come nobody's offering us
> any protection in this case?  Also if there is going to be a protection
> racket for all of these things, why not target it to the whole population
> rather than just a subset?
> 
> Sophie Quigley
> ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley


Have you forgotten all those TP commencials?

"Honey, do we have a new bathroom tissue?"

They can't even call it TOILET PAPER?

"Yes dear, isn't it just the most COTTONY-SOFT
bathroom tissue?"

That's the keyword here *SOFT* we don't
need protective toilet paper but SOFT will do!


Melanie
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