Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ginger From: ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: feminine "protection" Message-ID: <239@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 13:53:50 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.239 Posted: Tue Dec 4 13:53:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:44:15 EST Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 24 Right! The whole MADison Avenue attitude is stupid and demeaning; they want to promote their "feminine" products, but at the same time they avoid discussing the yucky details. They seem to think of women as cripples in need of a (sanitary) bandage to conceal and contain an embarassing (to whom?) wound. The hour-glass shaped bandage they are currently promoting is a fine example of how little they understand of our needs; a wedge shape would be more appropriate. And how about the scented products? Their subtle way of telling us we stink - "try the lemon, dear, you know lemon goes with fish" :-) I suppose it's just a matter of time before the AMA trys to convince us that we ought to just be vacuumed out every four weeks, and in no time at all a series of products will have sprung up around this new "need". AAARRRRRGGGGHHH! uw-beaver\!ssc-vax\!ginger P.S. Sophie: Why not collect all our comments and mail them to the blithering bat-brains in charge of promotion? G.