by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 10, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Four years ago I published an article in Sex Roles (March 2006) about the twists and turns of the media coverage of a scandal that came to be known as “Camillagate.” It concerned the publication of a...
by Chris Bobel | Jan 28, 2010 | Humor, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Television
All this iPad humor has got us thinking about menstrual humor more generally–what’s funny (to some) what’s not (to others), why and why not. In the end, anything-menstruation is almost always met with either 1) a shudder and a swift topic shift OR 2)...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Jan 27, 2010 | Communication, FemCare, Humor, Internet, Language, Television
Word on the street is that Apple is introducing their first tablet computer today. With their usual flourish, they’ve named it . . . wait for it . . . the iPad. ETA: The ladies at Jezebel have published more than one compilation of period-related iPad jokes. A...
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...
