The One Million Moms Have A Not-So-Fresh Feeling About Menstruating Ladies

[niyad]

(there are some appallingly ignorant rants in this article, but you can read them for yourselves. Warning: Do not eat or drink as you read)

The One Million Moms Have A Not-So-Fresh Feeling About Menstruating Ladies
Robyn Pennacchia
February 23, 2023 04:20 PM
The One Million Moms Have A Not-So-Fresh Feeling About Menstruating Ladies


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screengrab from the commercial One Million Moms is super mad about

In 1985, Courteney Cox became the first person to say "period" (in reference to a menstrual period) on television, in a commercial for Tampax — which had been advertised on television since 1972.

This week, it's another Monica who has something to say about menstruation: Monica Cole! As in Monica Cole and the One Million Moms who definitely exist outside of her imagination and who are in fact in the room with her right now. She is upset about a commercial for Thinx period panties, in which a mom briefly attempts to explain to her daughter how to use a tampon, before being interrupted by the girl's hip-and-with-it sister who tells her she doesn't need to use a tampon when she can just bleed into Thinx underwear instead! Is Monica Cole concerned this young lady is going to wish she knew how to insert a tampon should she someday get her period outside of her own home? No, she is not. She is worried about what horrors will befall families who see this commercial together.

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It's just science!

To be clear, the mom in this commercial is not literally inserting a tampon into her vagina. True, she's not riding a horse or playing tennis and vaguely insinuating that maybe something is happening involving Windex that would necessitate the use of a tampon or pad, but it's hardly shocking.

Quite frankly, the old-timey douche commercials were far more jarring (and unnecessary because the vagina is a self-cleaning oven).

Of course, being an old-timey douche herself, Monica Cole probably finds them a lot more relatable.

https://www.wonkette.com/the-one-million-moms-have-a-not-so-fresh-feeling-about-menstruating-ladies

[Tree-Hugger]

1. These people gross me out

People have vaginas. People have periods. They need to get over it. It's a damn sad shame because these are women teaching other impressionable women to be shameful about their bodies and natural functions. And teaching people to be ashamed of their body makes it easier for others to take advantage of those bodies.

[niyad]

2. Sadly true.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. women of Reddit aint having it... lots of threads against period shaming/hiding nonsense

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. I am sick and goddamn tired of these fake "women"

trying to shame other women into being as fake as they are! I spent a good part of my younger life, before I had babies, struggling with this crap because I came of age in the 1950s. (anyone remember "Modess..because..."? UGH!). Now I'm pushing 80 and I refuse to put up with it any more. Or them. Get out of my face, you sanctimonious hags!

[niyad]

7. I am just a bit younger than you, and yes, I remember those ads. Between

Madison Ave, the magazines, these women, it is a wonder any of us grew up sane, with self-worth.

[Timeflyer]

4. That commercial is cute. And girls need to know this stuff.

Older women remember being shocked to discover, when they started menstruating, that there are three orifices down there. Nobody talked about female bodies. Spread the info. and let women learn about, and manage their own, uterus. No shame. We're the life-bringers!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. "Can you imagine what goes through a child's mind when watching these ads? Thinx should be ashamed!"

[niyad]

8. oh, I ammcertain that children are just glued to the ads in rapt horror.