Feminine hygiene product shopping does my head in. I am finding it difficult to come to terms with black panty liners for g-strings. Equally, the concept of tampon boxes as fashion accessories. Or pads shaped like paper dolls with heads and legs and two little arms that cling to the gusset of your knickers for dear life. There is something horrifically patronising about the marketing; the silky-smooth covers and ultra-absorbent sphagnum cores and highly visible things that claim to be invisible. The fact that everything they absorb appears to be blue.
But now when I open the wrapper it reveals on the back of the adhesive strip, printed trivial tit bits called ‘Odd Spots’. That’s right. Trivia. Printed on the adhesive strip of my sanitary pad. Just like a chocolate wrapper, or a beer-bottle top. And vexed as I was, I couldn’t help but be blown away by the facts. Amazing facts. Things that, I don’t know, only a man would know. So I’m thinking that if I keep buying Libra sanitary pads, I could memorise the entire collection of Odd Spots and within one or two menstrual cycles, I could be as smart as a man.
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These Libra nonsenses have been in their packets for some years now.Sigh.
Smart as a man, Sas?! Come on now … Know your limits!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU:)
J9 that clip was SO helpful. Who knew that the over education of women leads to ugliness premature aging and beard growth. Back to think about kittens…
Also some of them are clearly not conforming to standard statistical analysis methods. Case in point: ‘Odd Spot #167: reindeer like bananas’. How do they know this for sure? Did they conduct a comprehensive survey? What methodology was applied to reach this conclusions? And if proven untrue then it just casts doubt on the entire pack of 36 slim-line panty shields.
Wait a minute – menstruate *and* read at the same time?Don’t we have enough to do??Haw!