Letters to the Editor
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As for Margaret Cho
she seemed promising at one time, but her time seems to have passed.
Maybe she can get a better agent who will put her into some good film comedies or something. I do have a fondness for female comediennes and she was one of the better ones.
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Margaret Cho - celebrity victim
Margaret Cho is so lame. What makes her worse is how she claims discrimination, 'weight-ism' and sexism as reasons why she isn't a bigger star and why she has had substance abuse problems.
The real reason is she simply isn't funny anymore. Last routine of hers I heard she was just impersonating her mother's heavy Korean accent and peppered it with some 'love yourself!' public srevice announcements. To an obviously dubbed laugh track.
But, hey - I'm a man so I guess I just don't get the magical, bonding experience of periods. You go girls! Shove those used tampons in the Man's face! You will not let him oppress your femininity! ... eck.
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@anon 7:42
Couldn't agree with you more. For crissakes, Broadsheet, sometimes you really need to give it a rest. Do you actually think people are all that interested in reading this stuff? Next thing you'll be waxing philosophical on the river of cold sweat flowing between menopausal breasts.
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three things
1) I'm so glad I don't peruse the kind of sites/publications where I would encounter such an unbelievably gross, and really quite hostile, infringement on a person's private life. Does this photo really truly exist? If so: Hell, meet very crowded handbasket.
2) Salon I thought you promised to never ever talk about Britney again.
3) Right on, Cho--smite those ever so delicate middle-class sensibilities, and all those who would respond with horror and loathing at mere mention of the dreaded Flow. I find it hilarious that one outraged poster was moved to protest: "My mattress is fine!"
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Oooh...it's scavenger hunt day on Salon!!!
"cri de coeur" - both you and King Kaufman used this French phrase in articles today.
Was that just coincidence or was that a result of a staff meeting "Friday-fun" challenge?
Now I have to read every column today and find all the other users of that phrase.
Oh...re:Margaret Cho - I'm with the others who think she used to be funny for a brief period of time, many years ago.
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um, ly, so you'd be willing to...
a)own, and sleep on, a mattress that is soaked in urine, fecal matter, menstrual blood, or other bodily fluids?
b) announce this to the entire world in the name of "feminism"?
I'll stick by my point that this sort of thing is what gives feminism a bad name.
And Broadsheet falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
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@ re_lyc
Listen guy, no one is offended by the mention of women's periods, what's annoying is that it makes news that Spears has them and Cho makes bad jokes about them. By the way, Cho was never funny, Americans just don't have any taste. And let me ask this: was Cho really showing solidarity with Spears or was she just trying to get some press considering no one gives a damn about her?
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Childbirth
I think childbirth has been celebrated for millenia - it's a pretty awesome thing to see a new being brought into the world. That's why there were fertility goddesses in so many ancient mythologies.
Menstruation, uh, no. When I went though menopause I couldn't for the life of me figure out why anyone would mourn the loss of that monthly pain-in-the-uterus experience. Fact is, women used to be pregnant or nursing almost continually, and regular menstruation is really abnormal.
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Puhleese Tina
I don't think Margaret Cho is celebrating having a period. I just think she's saying that accidents happen to the best of us and that posting pictures of it (which a paparazzi site did) is kind of wrong. I mean c'mon, in all of your years of being a grown woman and having a period, you've never had an "accident." And when that happened, you threw out your mattress? Heck, if I did that, I would have to get a new one every 2-3 months. If you don't think she's funny, fine, but I find it hilarious. And I think guys talking about their farts can be pretty hilarious too. Shit can be funny, and so can pee.
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other bodily fluids
what about semen, tina? I mean, the other day i was fooling around with my boyfriend and he was a little over eager because we hadn't seen each other for so long.
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Semen is beneath dignity
because it emanates from a mere male-- an evil subhuman scoundrel from the nether regions (hehe..) of the mortal coil.
But divine, goddess-like emissions, as in caked menstrual blood, are divine and goddess-like.
Did I say they were divine?
From goddesses?
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PetBoy would agree with my prior post about semen
Where is PetBoy? I need a good laugh.
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Hey, I'm a feminist
and i think semen is pretty divine...and probably tastes better than menstraul blood. (not that I've ever tasted the latter. Call it a hunch though.) Semen actually serves a purpose rather than just being a waste product. Without that wonderful stuff, there'd be no children.
So let's hear it for SEMEN! Lets all worship at the phallic alter that houses man-juice!
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atleast
Semen is the byproduct of a good time. Menstration not so much. I think sometimes us women ceremonialize things because alot about being a woman is physically painful, so it is important to celebrate the importance of it all.
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who cares about Margaret Cho?
She was never that funny, perhaps thats why tina didn't get the bloody mattress joke. It's an exaggeration of the occasional bloody accident, though in almost 20 years of having one, I've only once ended up with stuff on the matress! Usually my panties catch the accidents and those are easier to get rid of.
As for Britney, so what, they've shown us plenty of crotch shots of her, this one just happens to show that she forgot to put a tampon in or change it on time, big whoop. If she didn't want crotch shots, she'd learn to wear longer skirts or wear pants.
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Lestat1
Your pretty lucky. For some of us, Aunt Flo is just a trickle, but for girls like me, it's the Mighty Euphrates. I've gotten up from my bed in the morning and left a trail behind me to the bathroom, that's how bad it is. Wearing a tampon. And panties don't catch shit. Their cloth so it just soaks through them, my pajamas, the sheets and through to the mattress.
I guess I could go on the pill, that might help, but I swear, day 2 of my period does resemble a crime scene in some ways. I'm not celebrating it...heck i'm counting the days to menopause so I can start worrying about incontinence.
I apologize to anyone I'm offending. I'm just an earthy kind of gal. I also talk about my bowel movements. A lot.