Dating the men of Stayfree
Via Tracy Clark-Flory at Broadsheet, I learned of this new internet campaign from Stayfree. At last, my girlish fantasies realized! I have always dreamed of a man who would have dinner almost ready when I got home, and then mansplain the intricacies of feminine...
Marketing Menopause: Economic Forecast
Longtime readers may recall that late last year, the New York Times published an essay about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. Despite that exposé and others of the well-documented risks and limited benefits of...
Weekend Links
The abundance of recommendations for this week makes up for the sparseness of last week's list! Linda Falcao of Moms Rising publishes the letter she didn't send to Wells Fargo, when they demanded a status report of uterine contents before issuing a mortgage. Robin...
How to Ask for a Raise
Step 1: Wash your vulva. Yep, you're a lady, so step 1 in asking your boss for a raise is washing your ladyparts with special ladysoap. It's not until step 8 that we get around to "focus on things you've done for the company's bottom line". (Actual advertisement from...
Ditch the Disposables
The lovely ladies of LunaPads have made a sweet little video that explains why you should make the switch from paper products to cloth pads - in less than 90 seconds! If you've already made the switch, this is an easy way to persuade your friends. You can email it,...
Saturday Surfing: Links for a late-summer weekend
Are you a menstrual activist? Tell the Lunapads ladies what menstrual activism means to you, and you could win a copy of Chris Bobel's brilliant new book, New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation, or a set of Jen Vaughn's delightful zines,...
