And period.
Why are tampon and pad commercials designed to eternally mortify and humiliate women? Why are they compared to saddles? Flood gates? Correlated with abilities to leap and bound carelessly in white spandex with legs spread like eagles’ wings?
And the hideous, terrifying, simpering ”Mother Nature” quirk, with that stupid red box? And recently– rapids?? Seriously?
This whole sneaky attitude about periods– which is something everyone is pretty much aware of– has caused a weird vibe around the rather natural occurence. Are people so archaic that the very word is borderline taboo? And it is: commercials mention “flow”, sarcastically dubbing it “Mother Nature’s gift”… why is it that these ads end up making women cringe?
Glad someone picked up on it.
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