Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!wlcrjs!zubbie From: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: Re: feminine "protection" Message-ID: <459@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 16:10:23 EST Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.459 Posted: Fri Dec 7 16:10:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:34:30 EST References: <10083@watmath.UUCP> <135@ahuta.UUCP> Reply-To: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 15 Summary: 1) Because the add campaigns are designed by men. 2) Because in the dim dark reaches of many male brains there is something "dirty" about the menstrual cycle. For years even women viewed puberty as a curse visited on their daughters which was only slightly less demeaning then sexual relations with a man. Since women are much more *delicate* then men it is best not to embarass either men with the outright use of the proper terminology or women with their delicate set of sensibilities by discussing by name in public something which is supposed to be "girl talk" and best kept relegated to the powder room and/or kitchen. Jeanette Zobjeck ihnp4!wlcrjs!zubbie ....I know this isn't Kansas but I'm not sure I want to go there either.