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From: ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: feminine "protection"
Message-ID: <239@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 13:53:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 13:53:50 1984
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Right!  The whole MADison Avenue attitude is stupid and demeaning;
they want to promote their "feminine" products, but at the same time
they avoid discussing the yucky details.  They seem to think of
women as cripples in need of a (sanitary) bandage to conceal and
contain an embarassing (to whom?) wound.   The hour-glass shaped
bandage they are currently promoting is a fine example of how little
they understand of our needs; a wedge shape would be more appropriate.
And how about the scented products?  Their subtle way of telling us
we stink - "try the lemon, dear, you know lemon goes with fish" :-)
I suppose it's just a matter of time before the AMA trys to convince
us that we ought to just be vacuumed out every four weeks, and in no
time at all a series of products will have sprung up around this
new "need".       AAARRRRRGGGGHHH!

					uw-beaver\!ssc-vax\!ginger

P.S.

Sophie:

Why not collect all our comments and mail them to
the blithering bat-brains in charge of promotion?

G.