Look… call me a caveman, simple man, stupid-man, I don’t give a damn. Insult me all you want for this but…… as a man, the only thing I want to know about a period is when is that god awful shyt is over with and done so that we can get back to business.
I’m a nice guy… sometimes, and I’m very understanding… sometimes, and you ladies know how much I adore you. But I don’t have any desire to see, understand, talk about or listen to anything that has to deal with blood seepage and clotty clumps of matter coming from your body. If it was up to me, women would all be quarantined for 3-6 days a month in a blissful resort where your every whim is catered to and every imaginable recipe featuring chocolate is served to you at your request, 24-7 as you sit by the ocean and enjoy the crisp smell of fresh pacific breezes. All the martinis, chocolate and midol you could need. Not for YOU, but for those of us who have NO desire to be apart of the experience. The rest of us can go about or lives without ever having to even acknowledge the horrors of what happens below.
You can call it a beautiful scientifically natural thing all the hell you want to, fugg you, I’m not buying it and I’m not about that life, boo-hoo, cry me a river, im immature and aware don’t care bytch what.
Now from what I’m told, this advertisement is hilarious, ground breaking, a true awesome culmination of social media and traditional advertising married in wonderful example of coolness. To which I’ll take your word for it.
About periods? Not Interested, won’t find the humour, it’s all yours, thanks for playing and have a nice day.
Ad campaigns for maxi-pads and tampons tend to look like commercials for exotic resorts, replete with beachside strolls, yoga at sunset, and well-absorbed blue dye the color of a crystalline sea. With that Zenlike imagery on the one hand, and on the other the misguided stereotype of the crazy PMSing woman, it must be awfully confusing for men–or at least it was for one Richard Neill, whose amusing tongue-in-cheek comment about period confusion posted to the Facebook page of Bodyform, a British brand of maxipads, has now inspired a national campaign.
“As a man I must ask why you have lied to us for all these years,” Neill wrote. “As a child I watched your advertisements with interest as to how at this wonderful time of the month that the female gets to enjoy so many things, I felt a little jealous. I mean bike riding, rollercoasters, dancing, parachuting, why couldn’t I get to enjoy this time of joy and ‘blue water’ and wings !! ”
His clever jab at the brand got 80,000 likes. But it also got something unexpected: a direct, and even wittier, response from the company. [source]
Ugh.
my mother always told me you do not discuss things of this nature in mixed company
I never understood how women could just talk about this stuff in front of men…
Why not?! You trust a man to have sex with you. You trust your man to be there when you give birth. Why shouldn't he know what happens during your period? It's one less headache to have and one more pint of ice cream to eat!
Honestly, no man's gonna operate any heavy machinery without reading the instruction manual first. No man wants to stick around for 12 weeks of crazy if he doesn't understand WHY you're crazy.
Seriously, that's like saying a man shouldn't know how to sexually please you…
it's called having some class…
You can be classy and still inform a man when you are not feeling up to par. The way you said it, men aren't suppose to know women poop, burp, pass gas or anything… That's called keeping an appearance.
Your body does not have time for smoke and mirrors…
The way you said it, men aren't suppose to know women poop, burp, pass gas or anything…
I don't even know how you reached so far to come to this conclusion
but you are way off base
if a man does not know that a woman's body does those very human things then he is an idiot. these things are taught in basic health classes…
if you want to be so crass as go discuss your menstrual cycle with a man any man then go right ahead…I prefer to not discuss it in detail like that as I find it classless
but you go right ahead on…
I'm not talking about Random Negro on the street. I meant significant other, friend, family, etc. That's my "mixed company".
You wouldn't have to explain a mood swing to a stranger because their first impression of you would be that you're crazy. Point. Blank. Period… (no pun intended)…
Don't really see the problem. It's a pretty funny little ad, and nicely played. It allows them the opportunity to branch out from the ridiculous adverts I've always seen on tv, should they wish.
As for periods? ::Shrug::
Damn glad I don't get them, but they don't disgust me at all, I don't really see the big deal from the male point of view. Maybe I've just been lucky with the women I've had in my life….I just do whatever I can to help – which is usually very little, but there ya go……
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! YEEEES!
LOL – I love this! Finally, the truth! All those "happy period" commercials get on my nerves!
IKR? I've gone from monster cramps in my teen years to early 20s, and now I have five nights of pre-menstrual insomnia. Gone from chugging Midol to melatonin. 'Happy period', my backside.
The fact that she is drinking blue water though….
It was either that or tomato juice. With bits.
So early in the day for this =================>>>
Yeah, I caught that too…
But did you see the red jello mold on the table when she's in the board room?
LIFE RESTORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ah DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!! The MOST eloquent STFU in HISTORY!!!!!!!
Feminine Hygiene Commercials have always been made not to offend men. Not to let them know that there is ever a time when women are not beautiful, graceful, delicate creatures. It's because of men that blood=blue water and women feel free to wear white and jump in pools and dance and smile. Because in the advertising world women can NEVER not be visions of beauty even though we have our own spending power and executives in the industry. Men get to act a damn fool in their beer commercials . . . with their beautiful girlfriends.
It's a failure of our advertising to evolve with our culture and it's bullsh*t. The way Slaus wrote this article I was expecting this commercial to be straight out of Carrie, just buckets of blood and graphic distubance. This commercial was no different than those Kotex U commercials.
And although I feel very, very uncomfortable talking about my own period can I just give a hearty F*CK YOU to any and every man who wants to bitch about it. Like it's a woman's gatdamn fault, like she's just supposed to think it away. F*ck your "I don't trust anything that bleeds and doesn't die" comments. F*ck your complaints about PMS. F*ck em all. If you want to stick your dick in a warm vagina, then you will accept all the extras that come with it and out it. Betcha if we thought it away men would freak the f*ck out about pregnancies every damn day! And I would laugh. You think any of us ladies get all excited about it, yeah f*ck those commercials. F*ck a horse. My parents paid a lot of my advertising degree and I'm not sure HOW you market feminine hygiene products. Personally, of all the products that get my brand loyalty it's those, so I could do without any commercials. And one more F*ck for the road.
Pretty much…..
COSIGNED!!!!! *goes all starry-eyed for the Cher_Bear*
Thank you!!! *claps*
Can we be friends? You just said what I've been feeling for years now.
I heart you so much right now!!
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"If you want to stick your dick in a warm vagina, then you will accept all the extras that come with it and out it."
^^^^^THIS!!!!!! Can we put that on a t-shirt or something?
::singing in your ear while stroking your hair:: Girl, you know I, I , I, I, I , love yooouu
What I did catch was the plate of jello on the table in the board room on the table next to her. I guess that's supposed to represent a clot. Funny commercial though.
Loved this commercial! Men pay attention to feminine hygiene commercials? Learned
something new.
That was cute!