Plug your product
It has been suggested by some that the Tampax company is going too far in their latest attempts to spread the virtues of their product. Cynics accuse the company of padding the truth about conditions in far flung places and of bleeding money from emotional consumers.
The thrust: girls in poor nations are missing school with alarming regularity due to the unrestrained arrival of menstrual cycles. The good people of Tampax just do not cotton to the idea of children flowing from classrooms. They have initiated a program to get help streaming to those who need it.
Critics are seeing red while proponents gush praise. The controversy is quite absorbing.
My take? If the Tampax people want to spout off about situations in places across the world, who are we to stem the tide of their passion? Who are we to make cracks and rag on an effort as noble as this? I say tell your sisters, tell your aunts, tell your red-headed cousin from the south.
The Tampax people are trying to sock it to shortage and mop up misery around the globe, and we need more of that kind of compassion. Period.
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December 7th, 2007 at 10:05 am
… Ew. That actually made me nauseous.
How long did it take you to do that? Did you crack open a dictionary and use EVERY WORD YOU COULD FIND pertaining to the red river flowage? Lordie.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Thanks for shedding some light on this, and setting us men straight, son. Although it is hereditary — runs in the genes. Did you get your MBA at Tuck? No? Too many strings attached? Yes, also I’m feeling flushed, but other than that, I’m rather swell. Let me absorb all this and get back to you. Go Tex! Go Tex!
December 7th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I had a feeling K2 would quickly trump my euphamisms. Those damn things just don’t pop into my brain the way they oughta. I spent way too much time last night thinking about monthly discharge. So much, in fact, that I may be menstrating myself now.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
It’s nice to see you boys get in touch with your feminine side.
December 7th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
We’re just taking a stop-gap approach to a problem here.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Not to advertise another blog in here but…this is too funny not to share:
http://wendi-aarons.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-seen-on-mcsweeneysnet.html
December 7th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I was talking to Phil McCracken the other day. . . .
If you find yourself in a hole. . . .
Paddy wagon? . . .
The well is empty, man. I got nuthin’.
Oh, AO, I’m in touch — believe me, I’m in touch. Even have a restraining order against two of my digits.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Or maybe just go with the flow?
December 7th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
K2, how you do gush on.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
this is what I’ve been missing? ha!!!!