by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 25, 2010 | Birth Control, FemCare, Humor, Internet, Media, Menstruation
We’re sad to learn that brilliant funnywoman Sarah Haskins is leaving Target: Women (and especially sad that she’s leaving before creating a TW about femcare products). But we still have her fine piece about how birth control is sold to us as period...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 21, 2010 | Advertising, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Humor, magazines
The latest magazine ads for Always “Infinity” maxi pads remind me of this old joke: Two young boys walk into a pharmacy one day, pick out a box of Tampax and proceed to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asks the older boy, “Son, how old...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 10, 2010 | Advertising, Celebrities, Disposable menstrual products, FemCare, Language, magazines, Menstruation
This advert for Tampax appears in the February 2010 issue of Marie Claire, and probably other ladymags as well. It shows tennis star Serena Williams posing in a victory stance with clenched fist in the foreground, while security guards cart off Mother Nature, who is...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 8, 2010 | Advertising, Birth Control
SMCR and re:Cycling‘s own Chris Hitchcock is featured in a menstrual suppression for-and-against article at MSN today. Chris explains why using hormonal contraceptives to stop periods is generally bad idea, except in very limited medical circumstances. Leslie...
by Laura Wershler | Jan 7, 2010 | Disposable menstrual products, Menstruation
I love Terry O’Reilly’s take on advertising and enjoy listening to his program The Age of Persusion on CBC radio whenever I get the opportunity, usually catching it by chance as I did this past Monday morning. This episode, Marketing the...
