Showing posts with label Feminist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feminist. Show all posts

Monday, March 25, 2013

Be Dirty Minded, Do the Dirty...but Don't Think You're Dirty

This is the ad that I found on my Facebook newfeed this morning. Remind me again why I would want to be compared to a large rodent?  Furthermore, remind me why I want to buy a product that tells me I naturally stink?

Women have been told for centuries that they are dirty because they have bodily fluid or maybe because they bleed once a month (which I'll admit does still creep me out...but that's not the point!).  Womens bodies are not dirty and neither are mens.  If we stink, we need a shower not a wipe. 

So...how is this for sexy?  Use wipe.  Wake up in the morning with a lovely yeast infection - I'm positive you are going to feel terribly sexy with the burning, the itching, the cottage-cheesy chunks.  Enjoy that mental image...I gagged writing it.

I looked up some of the ingredients in this Fresh and Sexy wipe

Disodium EDTA - an ingredient commonly used to remove limescale...ouch?
Propylene Glycol- "Propylene glycol is a component in newer automotive antifreezes and de-icers used at airports...glycols are good for this purpose [freezing temperature is lowered] as they are cheap, non-corrosive and have very low volatility."

I had to look up almost every single ingredient on the list because it's ALL chemicals.  What happened to plain old soap and water? I'm a little creeped out with the idea of putting something like that anywhere NEAR my vajayjay!   

And what about our carbon footprint?  Even if these wipes are biodegradable - we have just bought into an unnecessary product that has a paper/plastic box, shipping (oil), manufacturing at the factory...and then the product gets used, dumped in a landfill or septic system where it can't biodegrade because it's under plastic bags.

Women, listen up.  You're not dirty.  Men, you aren't either.  Have a dirty mind, do the dirty, even play dirty...but don't buy into this stupid advertisement that you ARE dirty. 

And PS: Just because they give a marketing nod to men does NOT mean this product is actually marketed towards men.