Weird Tampon Ad from Australia



Here's the website.

Might be good for a discussion of hygiene and women's bodies or the history of feminine hygiene products and the way we think about menstruation.

Thanks, Patrick C.!

Posted by Gwen Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 12:07 PM Labels: , , ,  

5 comments:

  Anonymous

April 2, 2008 at 9:11 PM

This is strange...and mildly offensive. Why aren't the men in the ad walking around with pet roosters?

  Anonymous

April 3, 2008 at 12:38 AM

Maybe because that's not the 'message' of the ad? How hypersensitive to you have to be to take offense at a visual pun as innocuous as this? It's a joke, and not a malicious one aimed at anyone in particular. I would say 'lighten up', but you would probably assume I was making a fat joke.

  lofipi

April 8, 2008 at 9:15 PM

I loathe this ad every time it comes on TV. Way to 'befriend' your 'beaver'. I always imagine guys sniggering when it comes on, and then I think of Thelma blowing that semitrailer up in "Thelma and Louise" for hating the way driver calls vaginas 'beavers'.

Sidenote: We don't even have beavers in Australia.

  Anonymous

April 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM

I think it's cute and not remotely offensive. For once the woman doesn't have any negative feelings or embarrassment about her furry friend.

  Anonymous

April 13, 2008 at 8:23 PM

She doesn't have any negative feelings or embarrassment, but only because she's busy pampering and primping it into an acceptable form. If she *really* didn't have any negative feelings or embarrassment, she would just let it be.

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