Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: Re: feminine "protection" Message-ID: <120@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 09:30:20 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.120 Posted: Mon Dec 3 09:30:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:15:22 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 27 I too find the use of the word "protection" to be a little weird, and frequently amusing. Especially since, before I noticed it cropping up on women's paper products, I used to only notice it on the kinds of underpants and liners for people with bladder problems, and then it crept into deodorant. A lot of the women's paper products these days are scented, too. I guess "protection" means protecting you from having people find out that you're a human being with occasional human smells. (I have a feeling bears still think we smell like humans.) I'd prefer use of words like "absorbent", or something else relating more directly to the function of the product. Hah! Can you imagine what this discussion would be like in net.flame! All sorts complaining about why do we have to discuss such a *disgusting* topic (obviously, it's unnatural!) One of my favorite bits of graffiti at MIT, and in fact, the only lasting one I ever saw in a women's room (you know how the graffiti in "ladies rooms" tends to get cleaned up, but not in men's rooms), was on a Modess dispenser. The slogan for Modess used to be "Modess...because" and this was of course on the dispenser. Some wit had scratched in below "because why?". A question I'd always asked. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]