by Chris Bobel | Dec 3, 2009 | Activism, Communication, FemCare, Humor, Language, Men, Menstruation
Button by Insanitywear My friend, the poet and writer Andrea Scarpino, posted this brief essay on a blog she regularly contributes to–Steven Kuuisto‘s “Planet of the Blind.” It is not a coincidence that a blog centering on disability...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 3, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, Menstruation
It’s common knowledge that international corporations use different slogans and sometimes different product names to sell the same items in different countries. Procter & Gamble’s femcare products provide many good illustrations of this; as we noted...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 1, 2009 | Advertising, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical
A friend just pointed me to Excedrin’s web page for Excedrin® Menstrual Complete, with “a unique triple ingredient combination that relieves 5 of your major symptoms — bloating, cramps, muscle aches, headache, and fatigue.” You know, for...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 30, 2009 | Celebrities, Menstruation
As if you needed one. Gossip played a sold-out show Saturday night at London’s HMV Forum. Her period started moments before the performance, and instead of fretting about how to conceal it, Beth Ditto asked her fans to go on ‘bleed watch’. She said:...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 25, 2009 | Birth Control, magazines, Menstruation, Ovulation, Pharmaceutical
re:Cycling readers may be interested in this story in the current issue of Macleans about the declining interest in oral contraceptives among Canadian women, particularly among women in their 20s who’ve been using The Pill for a decade. [O]ral contraceptive...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 24, 2009 | Advertising, FemCare, magazines, Menstruation
Looks like our friends at Always Infinity have ditched the skinny model,* but everything else in the ad is the same, right down to the copy about a disappearing act and the close-up shot of magic blue fluid. That pad still looks disproportionately large to me: its...
