I got this in the mail the other day. I do not think it was really from mother nature as she usually sends stuff via the wind or gravity, not the United States Post Office. Also, the packaging was all wrong.
I don’t approve of euphemisms for menstruation. They are either too cutesy or too vulgar, or both. Aunt Flo? That’s just nasty. And it makes me really cranky when makers of sanitary products act like we should be thrilled at having the chance to use their products. What next? Is Tylenol™ going to start a “Hooray you have a brain! And it hurts which proves it’s there! Isn’t it great to be a higher order vertebrate and get to take Tylenol™?”
How is using a tampon outsmarting Mother Nature? Is Mother Nature sloughing off your uterine lining in an attempt to keep you from surfing? Or hoping that you go swimming without um, plugging things up so that pirannahs and sharks will come and eat you? Seriously why does everything have to be framed as us vs. them?
BTW, I got my free sample at Wal*Mart™ or someplace like that. I collect freebies like this and then once I fill a bag, take them to a local Church to make hygeine kits for the homeless. I should probably write The Ethicist to see if it’s okay but I’m not sure if it would be right to waste his time solving my ethical dilemma for me when I know I’m just going to argue with him if he disagrees.
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Slough, I hate the word slough. You’ll have to let us know if “tasteless remarks about sharks” is a tag that generates a lot of hits.
Any word that is pronounced two ways steams my buns.
I don’t think the package should be an angry red color. It should be nice peaceful blue, like the bikini that no menstrating women would take a chance wearing without board shorts to cover up any mishaps. Wearing a bikini is a gift? To who? Certainly not me as I have to use a hair removal routine that would hurt Satan himself. I believe its a gift to men, clearly you can’t use a tampon to plug up blantant sexism.
I just saw a creepy commercial that is part of this campaign while watching The Soup tonight. A woman who looked like the love child of Susie Essman and Judy Tenuta pops out of the ocean, introduces herself as Mother Nature and hands a girl on a boat a bright red package.
Seems like a throwback from the ’50s.
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