# Lady, please, the guys are watching!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 28, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498 "2002-03-28T02:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Vorae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@Vorae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vorae)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/41 "2002-03-29T08:28:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Abe Babe \* > \*\*The missus absolutely hates 99% of all euphemisms for her period. \*\* Hehe, I loved the Onion’s euphemisms. Two of them: **Cap’n Bloodsnatch** , and… **"It’s that time of the month" when “I’m not at my best” because "my vagina is bleeding."** ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/42 "2002-03-29T14:26:22Z")
Regarding colour… If I remember correctly from my past experience in design and that kind of jazz, the reason for this is simple - note too that they do the same with diaper commercials… Red reminds people of blood (well, fuck yeah, what do you think is coming out of my uterus when it’s bleeding? Soylent green?) and the networks don’t want anything to do with it, basically because it “would be way too gross.” Yellow reminds people of urine, making your “nice and fresh!” product not so appealing. Blue is apparently the most neutral, cold colour that looks “clean.” Look at all the cleaning products out there right now that are a lovely shade of blue… I want commercials that show women with intense cramps, and bloody huge clots, and mood swings. No one in their right mind feels like riding horses, running on the beach, and dancing when they’re bleedin’ and retaining water like camels in the freakin’ desert on a 4 day trek. Bleh. E. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/43 "2002-03-29T17:13:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*back atchya **Podkayne** for recognizing it! > > 😃 > > _If everybody had a 12 gauge and surf board tooo, they’d be surfin’ and skeetin’ up in Maliboooooooo, ‘cause it’s totally bitchin’ ridin the waves and blasting pigeons…_ \*\* Or perhaps the more appropriate–to this thread–quote: Your life will be more worthless than a truckload of dead rats at a tampon factory. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/44 "2002-03-30T12:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*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. \*\* All except the douche and FDS ones at least. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/45 "2002-03-30T15:22:37Z")
magdalene > [@](#): > > If even gay Canadian men are noticing these commercials, then we were doing our job! One, why would you hope that any men, gay, Canadian or otherwise, would notice tampon ads. Two, if people notice the ads by being utterly disgusted or even mildly grossed out by them, how is that a plus for the client? Seriously, I have never understood ad agencies when they say they’re pleased that people remember the annoying commercials, because I would think that “brand recognition” would be secondary to “brand recognition coupled with feeling of intense disgust or unpleasantness.” And I _hate_ those red dot commercials. Hate hate HATE them. They make me wish I were a woman specifically so that my failure to buy them would actually mean something. racinchiki > [@](#): > > I guess there just shouldn’t be any commercials at all then. Yeah, that’s a great idea, let’s try that! As if we don’t get bombarded enough on a daily basis with the disgusting things our bodies excrete, have y’all seen the toilet paper commercial that couples dialog like “get clean where it counts” with about 50 butt shots? Subtle much? ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/46 "2002-03-31T02:49:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dragongirl \* > \*\* > 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. \*\* If this type of commercial does become as prominent as tampon ads and the like, I hope there isn’t a drive to make them more blunt. Do we really need a Tinactin commercial that starts off “Does your crotch burn like a summer BBQ? Has the constant scratching caused your balls to look like someone took a power sander to them? You need our product!” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498/47 "2002-04-01T06:29:43Z")
## quote: ## Originally posted by Abe Babe 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” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \* > \*\*Anyone remember that SNL episode where Michael Jordan did an ad similar to this one? 😃 \*\* I liked the fake ad on South Park (can’t remember the episode): “Oh, honey, it’s just part of growing up…” “No, mom: like you know in **The Shining** when the elevator doors open?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-please-the-guys-are-watching/100498.md?page=2)