Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:afo From: afo@pucc-k (Flidais) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: Re: feminine "protection" Message-ID: <657@pucc-k> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 19:45:16 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.657 Posted: Sat Dec 1 19:45:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:02:25 EST References: <10083@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Necromancers Local #1032 Lines: 24 Speaking of offensive advertisements... The ones that *really* get to me are the ones for various pain-relievers and cramp-reducers. The commercials at first just referred to 'that time of the month'. What time? The end? Payday? Rent cheque time? :-) Then, they started getting into 'you know, that pain around the middle of the month' and the 'time just before that time'. I mean the advertising industry must have this vision of women trotting about, clutching at their midsections and moaning.{ And, yes I realise that there are women who do experience painful cramps, and ovulation pain (so there!).} I find the whole matter rather demeaning (we just can't function for a week out of every month without being totally blissed out on various combinations of ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or acetylsalcylic acid). -- Laurie Sefton {harpo,ihnp4,allegra,decvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!afo ~As he lay out the tarot, the devil and death, two old and very dear friends of mine, appeared.~