Obnoxious Bitch

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Some things are worth RAGGING on!

One of which is our culture’s tendency to act like human bodily functions are something shameful.  It’s bad enough that this attitude is encouraged privately among families, but when advertising and marketing is crafted to support such evil it’s disgusting and pisses me off to no end.

Consider Kotex’s quietest wrappers being touted as the best thing since sliced bread.  What the fuck?  Nothing like teaching our newest generation of female bleeders that having someone in another stall of a public bathroom hear the crinkling sound of unwrapping a rag is an embarrassment.  Y’know, pretty much any female over the age of 12 is intimately familiar with the fact that once a month we bleed, until we’re set free by menopause.  And since we’re no longer required to absent ourselves from socializing with the tribe by taking a week off to hang out in the Bleeding Hut, if we don’t want to ruin our clothes and/or leave a bloody trail, we need something to absorb the fluids of menstruation.  Having left behind the rather inconvenient practice of using actual rags, we’ve evolved into using handy-dandy things like disposable pads and tampons, with paper or plastic wrappers that ensure we don’t have to pick bits of lint or tobacco from the bottom of our purses off of our rags before we use them.  It’s just the nature of paper and plastic wrappers to make crinkly noises, and I know no woman who hears those crinkly noises in the next stall and snickers about someone else having her period—but that’s not what Kotex would have us believe.

This is just more evidence of how sick a society we’ve become.  I blame the further push toward religious views being “more moral,” when in reality what they are is more ashamed of what’s natural - what believers maintain their God created.  It’s bullshit, plain & simple, and it’s BAD for young women everywhere.

Fucksticks.