Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxt!techpub From: techpub@mhuxt.UUCP (mcgrew) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: Re: feminine "protection" Message-ID: <403@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:44:29 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.403 Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:44:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 04:34:08 EST References: <10083@watmath.UUCP> <1528@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <10164@watmath.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 31 > > > > > 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 mhuxt!techpub