Bwahahaha!

[apocalypsos]

This letter sums up every feeling I have upon seeing "Have a happy period" on my television screen, so I can just imagine how I would react if I actually saw this on the goddamn liners I use. The day before my period I'm practically homicidal and the first day of it I'm praying for a helpful vivisection from a stranger, so that slogan has convinced me not only that a man came up with it, but that no one at either the ad agency or the company itself has a vagina and that there must be dozens of takes of the woman in the commercial saying "Have a happy period" bursting out laughing halfway through going, "No, really, are you fucking serious?"

Elsewhere, I went to lie down for a nap and got up six hours later. Gee, thanks, body.

Sweet Charity bidding opens in eight hours, and I've offered up two stories and a movie recap only because I went with the latest deadline there was. I'm a bit paranoid that no one will bid on me at all but that's just me being me, although I'm more worried about the drunken movie recap offer than the fic offers.

I continue to have no urge to see 300. Yes, I know it's good. Yes, I know you've seen it and it's wonderful. Yes, I know Gerard Butler's in it in a loincloth. And yet still.

Comments

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this? A slightly more pragmatic version of the Have a Happy Period card. Very funny, and way more realistic.

[florahart]

As I commented to that letter:

Playtex Sport: "I wish OTHER problems only lasted a week!"

http://florahart.livejournal.com/573744.html

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link. That is truly infuriating.

In fact, come to think of it, I'm furious that we've been supposedly intelligent and civilised for thousands of years, made (so we're told) tremendous strides in the field of medicine, and women are *still* having to go through this. I think men should be made to undergo a simulated period every four weeks* till we find a safe and effective way of making it easier for you. I'm sure it wouldn't take as much as a year to come up with the answer, given that kind of incentive.

*And have exactly the same allowances made for us as we make for women.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

"I wish OTHER problems only lasted a week!"

*eye roll*

Yes, a week out of every month. Which means three months out of every year, which means about a decade of a woman's life (give or take) is spent pissed off and bleeding.

I hate to bring up the whole, "If guys got periods ..." thing, but ... yeah.

[horsefacehannah.livejournal.com]

Eh, 300 was such a B- movie.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I still buy the damn Always, because I just don't like anything else as well. But my mind continues to boggle every time I see that stupid slogan.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

I too continue to buy Always for the same reason. What really distracts me is the French translation of the slogan. I keep wondering if it's accurate or not.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I've been curious about it too. The literal translation is "Have a good week." In six years of high school and college French, I can't recall ever running across how they refer to menstruation, so I have no idea whether that's the standard euphemism, or if maybe the person doing the translation decided to subvert it into something a bit more sensible.