To hate womens hygene product adverts

[Grannypants1]

Women are always dropping out of plane or doing extreme sports and smiling their head off, like good for you ladies, but lets be honest, I am just looking to eat wispas and not bleed all over my pants hen.

And the scented towels? 'Now you can dance all over someone in a club and your lady garden can smell like pennies and flowers. Thanks always, just what I was going for, move out the way chanel, theres a new player in town.

Aibu to just want an advert that goes, it's here again, want to not flood your keks? Get this in your knicks and go eat a twirl.

I saw that advert the other day Yorkieheaven and I was DISGUSTED. It's just totally unnecessary. Next thing we'll actually see a guy rolling on a condom in the Durex ads. WE GET IT. ENOUGH ALREADY.

I literally don't see many ad's these days. TV is recorded and FF through them. However it sounds like nothing much has changed over the years.

I would love to know if it's women who design these ad's, and what their demographic is. If they're aiming at teens - put teens in the ad! Not 30 somethings snowboarding and doing the Tour De France. What are the public market research panels saying FGS?! They must do market research! (I used to take part in them a lot, but never got sanitary wear sadly) Why aren't the panels saying ''please stop with the daft bloody adverts''?

As an aside: I don't mind the blue for pads and nappies. No one really wants to see something that looks like real blood or shit on the telly do they?

What would you say to an ad where a woman wakes up in a puddle of blood?

Or, there's blood all over the bed, and she tries to get rid of the bloody linen, and there's this kind of music that's always in movies when someone gets murdered, and in the end it is revealed it is an advertisement for pads.

I think most people prefer the blue liquid.

Probably they started showing women living a normal life in white clothes, because that's what women wanted to be able to do when pads were invented ... and it somewhat spiralled from there and now women aren't just living ordinary lives but climb mountains and win the Tour De France, or whatever.

By now, menstrual hygiene products are somewhat like toilet paper, everyone knows they exist and what they are for, and people buy them.

I'd be more inclined to buy a product that is advertised with a woman who goes fishing for piranhas with her used, 100% organic cotton tampons, than a product where she just wears white clothes. People can afford to have priorities that exceed the desire to wear white clothes by now, and I happen to want environmentally friendly products.

Husky thanks I thought I dreamed it! bizarre.

I'd just like the advert that shows me the time I was crying because the milk had ran out and I wanted cereal but with the tagline

'sanny towels- so when you're a mess, your pants don't have to be'

The goalkeeper one drives me nuts, too. I change channel as soon as it comes on. I've never wanted to wear white trousers, I'm so mucky they'd be filthy in 3 seconds, whatever time of the month it was!

'sanny towels- so when you're a mess, your pants don't have to be'

Oooh that's good! Someone'll snap that up i bet

'sensitive' bladder sounds painful.

agree about the sensitive bit - why not call it an 'overactive' bladder or mild incontinence - we all know what you are talking about and it does not make us rush out and buy the 'discreet' towels that no-one knows you are wearing

God I can't STAND that goalkeeper advert. Seriously, there is an issue about girls quitting sports in puberty but no, I'm not assuming anything about you because you're a woman and to assume that I am is not feminism, it's a persecution complex.

Um no

That we perceive women as less than men and less capable is fact.. and one of the basic tenets feminism.

What I find odd that you are allowed to show blood if it's an injured person but period blood is a massive taboo.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sanitary-brand-bodyform-praised-over-8109462

maybe they should have a free twirl and 2 paracetamol included in every pack.

""agree about the sensitive bit - why not call it an 'overactive' bladder or mild incontinence""

My Incontinence Nurse calls it an Irritated Bladder, so mine now matches the rest of me.

The tablets they give you causes dry mouth, which is irritating in itself.

At least they seem to have stopped the adverts with the women in tiny white shorts I remember from when I was a teenager.

Lol at the sensitive bladder reading poetry!!

Assuming they're less capable yes, but assuming that I'm assuming that they're less capable no.

Additionally, no, I do not perceive women as less capable than men and nor am I aware of anyone in my immediate circle who does. I assume that makes me privileged and devalues my opinion to the point where it can be disregarded?

Laughing at free twirl and 2 paracetamol

Good for you underslung you have good views and keep good company. But just because you don't experience something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, that is a privellage. I couldn't very well say no one experiences racism because me and my mates aren't racist. I'd be entitled to my opinion. But held up against someone who is likely to actually be in the position to experience racism my opinion wouldn't have the same value as theirs, merely because they would have much more to go off than me in terms of personal experience in the matter. You wouldn't value the opinion of a book from someone who hasn't got a chance to read it over someone who has read it everyday would you?

And by that I met I agree with your view that you aren't assuming a woman is less capable, hold that view myself, bravo. But there are still a lot of people who do, out of personal experience. But that is besides the point. When selling woman funny corks and nappys, you don't need to show a woman challenging conventions. Most of us have persons and know what we are capable with, it's a bit patronising to be like. Oh now you have our pads you can play football you Lucy thing you. Thanks always, I was just going to sit here throwing glitter at people from the back of my pony until you told me that. Really I am going to be eating food and growling at the general public

Urgh phone *fanny corks, periods not persons capable of not with. Lucky not Lucy. One day I will manage to turn off prodictive

It's the pressure that bothers me: women, do not bow to your period! Climb that mountain, you weakling!

Like, it fucking really hurts. So if I want to wear comfy trousers and lie on the couch for a day or two, it doesn't make me 'less' than a woman who, when she feels the cramps starting, gets her fucking goalie gloves on and heads to the local five a sides pitch.

Just another way to make us feel we're never quite 'enough'.

Predictive ffs

90day yassss

Yes, grannypants and being aware of that feeling is not a 'Persecution complex'.

Also for all the colour and gender blindness we claim to have the truth is we all live in the same sexist and racist culture and unconscious biases do exist