Reply #55: I know I have a vagina and a tv spokesperson shouting it out doesn't make me feel more emancipated. [View All]

[Gwendolyn]

What I find weird is Kotex using some high-strung looking spokesmodel who looks like she's barely containing an eating disorder to tell me how stupid tampon commercials are, when they're the ones who put them out, slow-mo beach-dancing nymphs and all. Do they think women are completely brain-dead or have no long term memory.

And what are the big beefs supposedly?

1. The blue mystery fluid. Okay, well there are about 5,000,396 diff feminine hygiene products I have to peruse when I go to the store. Wings, no wings, thick pad, extra thin pad, mini, plastic applicator, purse size, etc. I like it when they give me a visual so I know which one is for night, for heavy days, etc. I can be in and out of the store in minutes.

2. I and everyone I know goes to a health club. It's important that I don't have embarrassing moments, and so if they show me some woman stretching in white skins, I know the claim is that I'm going to be safe to exercise. That's okay with me.

3. Back to the high-strung spokes model. I get terrible cramps and don't really want to look at a sour-faced young woman trying hard to appear sophisticated when she's selling me vaginal cotton batting. Give me humor and Mother Nature, and I will remember that when I'm at the store.

:thumbsdown: to kotex and their childish, condescending, hypocritical vagina commercial.