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From: afo@pucc-k (Flidais)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: Re: feminine "protection"
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Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 19:45:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 19:45:16 1984
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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.~