by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 4, 2010 | Internet
How did September sneak in here?!? I wasn’t finished with August. Do you miss Sarah Haskins as much as we do? Listen to her talk about pregnancy and the Apocalypse. Melissa McEwan tells it like it is: Grown-ups aren’t embarrassed to buy tampons. Even when...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Sep 2, 2010 | Amenorrhea, Health Care, Media, Menstruation
The headline of a story at ABC news about infertility among female athletes is “Female Athletes Are Too Fit To Get Pregnant“. Many women athletes in their 20s, at peak performance levels and peak physical fitness by most measures, may find themselves...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 31, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, Humor, Internet, Media
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 30, 2010 | Advertising, Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 28, 2010 | Internet
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...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Aug 26, 2010 | Advertising, FemCare, magazines
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...
