Friday, January 25, 2008

Midol keeps 'em coming back!

Here's a vintage Midol ad via feministing that just goes ahead and says it straight out: your period makes you undatable. (Click on the photo to read the badgering copy.)



Judging from this photo I suspect "my Guy" might be too in to "his Guy" to be worrying about my period crabbies. We may have bigger relationship fish to fry...

2 comments:

Kathleen, Frisky Freelancer said...

Whoa, there's a whole history of period ads on video at http://jezebel.com/348766/let-it-bleed-a-look-back-at-period+related-advertising

Farah said...

nice. i was having a rant with mark harris about this: how words for crazy are womb-related: lunatic (like this lovely ad), hysteric (from the greek hystera meaning "disturbance of the womb"). i'm sure there's more, i just had to stop to prevent my head from exploding.