Can’t remember the brand name of the product but I really don’t care.
I’m sitting here watching Star Trek, and on pops a commercial advertising a product that will apparently satisfy my personal cleansing needs.
I am forever seeing ads for feminine hygiene product, ranging from sanitary napkins and tampons to cures for yeast infections.
I wouldn’t mind it so much if I was watching Lifetime or Oxygen, or some such chick channel (I refuse to watch any program on a chick channel, btw) or during soap operas, which men generally don’t watch (unless they’re the sensitive type)
But really, during Star Trek, or other shows watched by an equal or greater number of male to female viewers?
Look, I don’t talk about this stuff with guys I don’t know really well, and I sure the hell don’t want these, um, intimate products waved around in full view of the male of the species.
I know what you mean. The other week, I saw a tampon commerical during a commercial break.
A commercial break in the live coverage of the Formula One Grand Prix of Malaysia.
There ought to be a law, dammit. Me and my friends immediately agreed that racing should only be interrupted by commercials for beer, razor blades, new cars, and dirty mags.
Look guys, I’m female and those commercials annoy me too, not because they are there, but because I have never seen a commercial for a jock itch product advertised. If the women’s personal products are broadcast everywhere, men products should be too. It’s a little unfair, if you ask me.
Dragon: I have! Gold Bond Medicated Powder. To make matters worse, it began with a huge white-on black title card and booming announcer’s voice that said MALE ITCH. But your point is well taken.
Commercials for menstrual products (which nobody calls them, even though that’s what they are) annoy me a great deal too. Not because they embarrass me as a guy (half of my CDs are lesbian comedy - I’m pretty much unembarassable when it comes to women) but because, frankly, I’m embarrassed for women instead. Those things are so coy and ridiculous! The other day I saw the first one in my life that even used the word “period” or the colour red. Let’s just tiptoe around the subject like it doesn’t exist, while we’re trying to sell you something to deal with it! It’s so smarmy and nauseating.
I hear you. To tell you the truth though, I’m not all that anxious to see jock itch commericals, even in the interest of fairness. I just think we all know entire too much about each other’s cycles, itches, fungi, rashes, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. I understand the need for advertising, but is there really a pre-menopausal woman in the country who doesn’t know about pads and tampons and douche and Monistat? It seems to me that this is one of the few industries that always has a steady flow [bad pun, sorry ] of customers. I’ve never seen a commercial for a funeral home, and they seem to be doing quite well. Sometimes, some things are better left unsaid If you ask me.
Q: A tanker truck full of vinegar and a tanker truck full of water are speeding towards each other at ninety miles an hour. What does it sound like when they crash?
My favorite of all time was a douche commercial (Massingil, I think) that had a mother and daughter gardening and the daughter asks her mother if she as ever had “that non-so-fresh feeling”
I would love to see a commercial that asks “Does your crotch have a smell that would scare a cat off of a liver truck? Does paint peel when you walk by? Try (our product).”
The missus absolutely hates 99% of all euphemisms for her period.
Who watches commercials? If you are embarassed or don’t want to see what they are advertising on tv, change the damn channel. Don’t you have a remote control?:rolleyes:
Okay, I’ll be the first to say it; these are commercials about normal functions of a healthy female body. When we grow up as a species, maybe we won’t be embarrassed/ashamed of bodies anymore. But I do agree that if we’re going to broadcast what women do, let’s do the same for guys. Then maybe we can all get over our hang-ups about being flesh-and-blood animals with bodies that leak and smell and get itchy.
I find these commercials funny and basically useless because, well, really, if you are someone who needs one of these products (pads, tampons, douches)…
YOU ALREADY KNOW WHERE TO GET THEM.
I’ve never met a female who watched one of these and said ‘Holy shit, I never knew there were products for this at the Rite-Aid. All along I’ve been sitting on a phone book for a week hoping I didn’t have to stand up. Why didn’t anyone tell me there was such a thing as Kotex?’
Seriously. Is there a female in the United States who needs products for her period that is unaware of the ‘feminine hygeine’ aisle at every pharmacy and grocery store and Wal*Mart in the USA?
You know how in many of those “feminine product” commercials they show said product and then pour blue liquid on it to demonstrate its amazing absorbancy? I always thought to myself, “Why is it blue?”
Well I swear to you all that once I saw a commercial and the stuff they poured onto the pad was black! I’m not kidding. The effect was really quite disturbing. I never saw that commercial again. And I never needed to ask again why they only use blue…
I don’t have too many issues with these comercials but I do wish that they would pick a better time then dinner time to show them.
Not exactly what I want to be thinking about while I’m eating.
Yum, nice blood red juicy steak and on comes a Stayfree commercial!
Although I did call a friend of mine and asked him what he used for his penile errectal dysfunction cause I saw something new on tv for it. He didn’t find me too funny.
He also didn’t find me too funny when we were shopping and I asked if he preferred medow flowers or musk.
Yes they have these commercials for a reason to get the product well known and out there in the public eye.
But there are young girls out there whose mothers never had the “talk” with them.
My aunt was like that. Never discussed with my cousins what was going to go on with their bodies. They had to come to my mom and the school nurse.
Granted the commercials aren’t instructions but they are a point in the right direction.
] of customers. I’ve never seen a commercial for a funeral home, and they seem to be doing quite well. Sometimes, some things are better left unsaid If you ask me.