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The end of menstruation
The drug Lybrel promises to free women from their monthly curse. But today it's a sales pitch that seems hopelessly outdated.
By Tracy Clark-Flory [2008-02-04]

  • what about the youth

    being 24, i'm suddenly a lot older than the starlets in gossip magazines i've periodically glanced at for about 8 years.

    let me preemt accusations of paramnesiac nostalgia, and say that i don't think THEN was a SIMPLER time.

    i do wonder, though, what particular variety my younger counterparts encounter THESE DAYS.

    and i recall being in gym class in 6th grade, wearing shorts that showcased my "all natural femininity"

    and i recall a precocious 8th grader (who in hindsight was pretty cheap looking, with badly bleached hair and racoon eyes) talking about how "gross" her stubble was, and how "badly" she needed to shave her legs.

    funnily enough, it had never occured to me that I OUGHT to shave my legs. and suddenly i was no longer a child. and i was ugly, hairy, rustic, and clueless.

    and even though, in hindsight, that girl was tacky and would never be my role model now, then, i felt absolutely lowered by her condescension. it took years of damage before i regained my sense of direction,

    so when we sell period eradication, are the more clueless among us going to hear the tacit message, that periods are for the clueless, and that they OUGHT not to have them?

    and does Wyeth, who presumably employs women, expect exactly that reaction?

    i shudder to think...

    -- lburgler
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    Monday, February 4, 2008 07:11 AM
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