Boots menopause range

[Cranberrygin]

I opened an email from Boots this morning promoting their new No 7 menopause range. Being a woman of a ‘certain age’ I was interested and read it. To be confronted with ‘all people who menstruate will be affected by the menopause at some point in their lives’. My trust in Boots has been seriously shaken by the use of this horrible phrase. Has ‘women’ now become a taboo word except when it includes men who think they are women? 🙄

Excellent post Fanny.

My dog seems to smell more when on synthetic blankets (fleecy things, micro plastics) rather than natural materials, so why they're making nylon things for menopausal women I have no idea. Other than the next big pink tax.

I'm in the menopause support network fb group run by Diane Danzebrink who had zero support or hrt following a full hysterectomy when she was younger. She quickly became suicidal. I've found the information invaluable and her YouTube videos / interviews v informative.

She's been posting about the commercialisation of the menopause and how awful it is. She's also just shared this:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/23/the-new-menopause-market-has-been-well-and-truly-tapped?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

"A piece about menopause wellness in Vogue reported “an untapped market worth an estimated $600bn”"

And

One problem with menopause is the lack of support for its symptoms. But the solution to the bigger problem, that women are not valued after they reach middle-age, is not: “buy 100 products that make you seem younger”. Perhaps a “glow cream” makes one menopausal woman feel better for an evening, but it does not help menopausal women as a whole. In fact, it could be argued that these aspirational products damage them further, by perpetuating the idea that looking young is the answer.

And beyond that, by imposing a pressure familiar to most women, whether navigating motherhood, ageing, sex or work – the pressure to win at it. Or, as a menopausal friend messaged me yesterday, “Do I really have to have a ‘good’ menopause? Can’t I just feel a bit cross?”

The tirade on looks and conformity against women and girls starts at birth and just never stops does it?

they’ve been at it for a while. Remember their magazine (Mother’s Day?) when they had ‘inspirational women’ front and centre was male born and another ‘notable’ was ‘non binary’. The others were actually women who had done something…

didn’t they also print in their magazine some nonsense about if you don’t use pronouns you are worse when Gengis Kahn? Then had to delete it because it was stats from a dodgy survey.

Interesting.

Menopause leggings 10% lycra - £12

Quick glance at 'Performance' leggings 14% lycra - £10

Motivate performance leggings 13% lycra - £8

2 pack Menopause cami tops 10% lycra - £12

Quick look at Stretch Cami top 5% lycra - £1.80

We appear to now have a Withering Ovary Tax to pay on top of the Pink one.

Outstanding.

Well, a while back it was a marketing ‘thing’ to sell ‘pink’ items at a premium (ie secateurs).

Well, clearly we're all incapable of functioning from the age of about 34 because of our ovaries. And they're doing us such a favour in making sure that every man, younger woman and employer knows all about how we're beset by irrational moods, anger, tears, brain fog and an inability to function at all in the workplace, particularly if somebody should be so foolish as to give us a position of responsibility or waste money on training us.

Over a century of trying not to be dismissed as mere animals, simple in word and deed and entirely ruled by our wombs, all going in order to make sure we buy things in purple packaging at an inflated price.

Anybody flogging Menopause sanitary pads yet?

@EdgeOfACoin Unfortunately, I think this is quite likely to happen. Don't employ young women (they might get pregnant). Don't employ middle age women (they have childcare duties). Don't employ older women (they'll have menopause issues).

Ironically, I read the OP as 'Boots Menopause Rage'

Bring back the Crone, I say.

I want to wither and fade gloriously into my haghood.

I would howl with laughter at 'Withering Ovary Tax' if it wasn't so bloody painfully true......plus laughing makes me hot 😂😭

I had the misfortune to be in Primark today (dd wanted something from there) and I got to feel the fabric of one of the nylon menopause nighties. It was as horrible as I expected.
Not paying the Withering ovary tax on that.

Have I started something here?

NEW! Menopause Toothpicks. Just like normal toothpicks but purple for that SPECIAL TIME in your life where you NEED a little more.

Only £1.89 + WOT (£18.57)

Lol. New Menopause sellotape.

Like normal tape, but has a special feature that means you can always find the end and not throw it across the room in a menopausal rage.

59p + WOT (£14.95)

(Actual la that sounds quite good. I would buy that)

Menopause laptop.

Actually connects to the work network and tells the external remote IT helpdesk exactly what's wrong and how to fix it - in a middleaged male voice so they hear it instead of laughing at the silly old woman who thinks she knows what file permissions are and what they should be.

£399 + WOT (£74,257.38)