Social Media - That was an eyeopener

[shopperholic]

Saying it happens to just girls and women would have you flamed on other forums, Donna. I've noticed that even some sanitary products have stopped mentioning they're for females these days (brands I refuse to use especially when they're ridiculously expensive).

What the hell is wrong with people these days? I'm all for being 'kind' but suffering fools that can't get a grip on reality is way beyond me. And companies trying to jump on the PC bandwagon irritate me even more. Ruby Cup is one. They sell a cup for nearly £30 with an extra case for £9. While I applaud their commitment to educating girls and women I see red (pun not intended) when a company calls women menstruators FFS. I bought an identical cup that included an identical case from Savers for £4.99. I'll stick with companies like Lil-Lets that still refer to us 'menstruators' as good old-fashioned women and girls.

We had a corner shop that sold those giant sanitary pads with loops and as a child, I remember being sent to get a pack for my mum. The owner double-wrapped them in a brown paper bag, leaned close and told me not to tell anyone what was in the bag and to go straight home to my mum.

I'm glad periods have gone from 'dirty' and shameful to being spoken of and products being advertised, though the older generation would have been shocked and horrified by it. My nan was much like Vienna's mum but my mum was a bit more easy-going. Though she did refuse to buy me tampons when I was 12 - so I went out and bought them myself!

That brings me on to 'period poverty'. My first pack cost me 64p out of my hard-earned Saturday job money (I started my job really young as it was in a family business). A pack of tampons costs 89p in Asda. A pack of pads £1. Back then that 64p was a LOT of money yet I see my niece's friends moaning about paying for sanitary protection while texting on their £1k iPhones! My mum would have slapped me into next week for being stupid if I'd have done that. Mum didn't suffer fools either

Also totally agree with Twilight. That ad winds me up, too, as I think women should be educated on pelvic floor health not left to spend a small fortune on pads for the rest of their lives.

Yes! Dr Whites I think they were called the huge, thick sanitary towels with loops, or mattresses as I liked to call them

It’s funny though I haven’t menstruated for 27 years since my hysterectomy, I wonder in this PC world gone mad does that make me? Saying that though, I’m now using liners 27 years later for a whole different reason. (Tena.........ahem!). Oh the irony.

 

[alter ego]

Yes! Dr Whites I think they were called the huge, thick sanitary towels with loops, or mattresses as I liked to call them

It’s funny though I haven’t menstruated for 27 years since my hysterectomy, I wonder in this PC world gone mad does that make me? Saying that though, I’m now using liners 27 years later for a whole different reason. (Tena.........ahem!). Oh the irony.

Yes! Dr Whites! Memories!

Nothing according to the people (men) who are trying to change the wording around it. I've been following some feminism sites over the last 18 months and it is truly shocking the tactics and pressure these men are using to 'erase' women. Menopausal or women without periods for whatever reason are officially useless to society and are nothing but 'dried up old bags' (their words).

I'm a feminist in the way that I want women to have the same freedoms as men and the right to earn the same wage for the same job. However, I'm getting really angry at the way some of these men are behaving. I'm totally fed up of the way women are treated from unwanted touching from puberty (and sometimes before) to being invisible and a waste of resources when we can no longer 'breed' (another term they use).

And now I've raised my own blood pressure (and bored the pants off everyone), I'll now get off my soapbox and wish everyone a peaceful evening.

 

[stratobuddy]

At least I've learnt something from the sanitary towels and tampon adverts, that is, that blood "down there" is always bright blue.

 

[ERICS MUM]

My sister and I used to call those Dr White STs “hammocks”. I remember the white elastic sanitary belts you had to wear round the waist and fix the hammock loops to small hooks. What a palaver.

 

[donna255]

I started my periods at 12 had no idea what the hell was going on!? Then had the talk from my mum, she had the big operation as it was called when I was about 4. She was 39 when I came along and in those days if women had heavy periods whipped out the womb. So I never remember her having to buy pads etc as a child.

I always had very heavy periods, I actually used to have to go into the disabled toilets to change if out and about as it was like a blood bath. Turns out only a few years back they discovered I had fibroids! So, anyone who is transitioning to becoming a female, I am so sorry you are missing out. I am sure there are hundreds of thousands of women around the world who would be more than happy to swap with you.

There is an Alice Cooper song which Julie Covington sang 'Only Women Bleed'.

 

[donna255]

Holy feck!! No one has replied and I expect QVC to delete


I'm sending you my late Mom's ashes to dispose of since your lame and overpriced crap addicted her to make believe your were her friend - we are now disposing of overpriced crap that she spent her last years buying - frankly, you need shutting down and being subject to the same laws as gambling sites

 

[Toril]

Holy feck!! No one has replied and I expect QVC to delete


I'm sending you my late Mom's ashes to dispose of since your lame and overpriced crap addicted her to make believe your were her friend - we are now disposing of overpriced crap that she spent her last years buying - frankly, you need shutting down and being subject to the same laws as gambling sites

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

It’s unusual for a uk person to call their mother Mom. I noticed yesterday people reporting that it had been taken over by Nigerian scammers and also people seeing US posts.

I assume if true it isn’t actually mothers ashes but rather the ashes of the crap purchased. No one would dispose of human ashes this way.

 

[Deleted member 21102]

It could be someone who's emigrated from South Africa where they say Mom.

 

[donna255]

It sounds like Mom's ashes going by the post.

I did see someone complaining that Alison Young's posts loads of US replies. I couldn't find the said AY post to read.

So do we think their Facebook has been hacked?

 

[donna255]

Oh, someone has replied. But a bin lid has replied perhaps it made their mother happy to buy from QVC and no one forces people to buy from QVC.

I feel your pain Jan. My Mother is in Care Home and still ordering and spending huge amounts of money. Needs to be addressed asap..it's all about their profits.

 

[Vienna]

For some strange reason I can`t see visitor posts on Q`s facebook page. I can only see the comments under posts which QVC have posted. My facebook changed to a new version several weeks ago and its awful.

 

[donna255]

I have the new version and go to the community. It is the drop-down under More.

Agree about the new Facebook

 

[SisterBliss]

She's Claire Sutton's No. 1 fan & was genuinely upset when she left. We've got really nice neighbours & I'd like to keep it that way which is why I didn't tell her that I'd seen her 15 year old son sexting in their garden at the start of house arrest. I thought about the expression 'What the eye doesn't see...' Unfortunately both my eyes saw quite a lot, in fact everything...

Just to clarify....Sexting=dick picks & not writing smut to the intended?

Did he hand sanitise?

 

[SisterBliss]

The girls at the school where I worked were worse. I'll never forget the year 9 assembly when the person responsible for child protection/safeguarding looked at her audience & asked them to stand up & show her their bits. She held the perfect pause & then bellowed "I thought as much so why put yourselves on social media for all the world to see?" She then explained that her role meant she had to look at these images because of her job. There were several kids who were mortified

Eeeeeeeeeeee.

I know they are kids, but 'more fool them', imo.

 

[SisterBliss]

Dunno about private parts, but I can’t stand this culture of photographing everything and anything including your dinner and posting it on social media. Don’t get me started on “selfies.“ Girl or woman posts a pic.. and loads of comments follow. “Gorgeous hun” “beautiful girl”. .. Thanks babe , love you xxxx etc etc. No wonder there’s so many mental health issues in the world with all this obsession with the way we look. I’m pleased to say that my mates seemed to have stopped taking photos of us having coffee in town just to get likes! What’s to like about seeing people having a coffee? There’s nothing to dislike I guess, but I find that sort of thing irritating and pointless.

My sentiments exactly, Merryone. So glad you posted.
I will add that all the 'beautiful Hun' sycophantic posts are from morons being fooled by a filter, & then prepping for reciprocal comments when they indulge in similar (insert adjective/other)......behaviour

 

[SisterBliss]

Many years ago when I was newly married, very young and much slimmer, we were invited to a posh Christmas do. I bought a lovely black velvet halter neck dress which of course meant a bare back and a low-ish cut front but still covering everything properly IMO. My Mother nearly had kittens when she saw it and declared I was showing too much flesh which only my husband should see !
Of course that was coming from a woman who always wore 6 layers and I bet in all their married years my Dad never saw her naked so heavens knows what she`d think about facebook, selfies, the internet and what you see on TV.
Adverts for sanitary towels, incontinence knickers, viagra and condoms would send her into an attack of the vapors and she`d be searching under the cushions for the remote control or standing in front of the TV and instructing my dad to avert his eyes and then she`d have fired off a handwritten letter to Mary Whitehouse.
She`s been gone for over 30 years but if she`d seen Twilight`s naked teenage neighbour then she`d have been round there like a flash, waving her rolling pin or frying pan at him, wafting at him with her tea towel in the other hand to hide his bits and then dragging him by the earhole putting him under house arrest until his Mum came home and giving him what for.

I think we need a lot of 'your Mum's' & their mates to sort all these people out.

 

[SisterBliss]

Saying it happens to just girls and women would have you flamed on other forums, Donna. I've noticed that even some sanitary products have stopped mentioning they're for females these days (brands I refuse to use especially when they're ridiculously expensive).

What the hell is wrong with people these days? I'm all for being 'kind' but suffering fools that can't get a grip on reality is way beyond me. And companies trying to jump on the PC bandwagon irritate me even more. Ruby Cup is one. They sell a cup for nearly £30 with an extra case for £9. While I applaud their commitment to educating girls and women I see red (pun not intended) when a company calls women menstruators FFS. I bought an identical cup that included an identical case from Savers for £4.99. I'll stick with companies like Lil-Lets that still refer to us 'menstruators' as good old-fashioned women and girls.

We had a corner shop that sold those giant sanitary pads with loops and as a child, I remember being sent to get a pack for my mum. The owner double-wrapped them in a brown paper bag, leaned close and told me not to tell anyone what was in the bag and to go straight home to my mum.

I'm glad periods have gone from 'dirty' and shameful to being spoken of and products being advertised, though the older generation would have been shocked and horrified by it. My nan was much like Vienna's mum but my mum was a bit more easy-going. Though she did refuse to buy me tampons when I was 12 - so I went out and bought them myself!

That brings me on to 'period poverty'. My first pack cost me 64p out of my hard-earned Saturday job money (I started my job really young as it was in a family business). A pack of tampons costs 89p in Asda. A pack of pads £1. Back then that 64p was a LOT of money yet I see my niece's friends moaning about paying for sanitary protection while texting on their £1k iPhones! My mum would have slapped me into next week for being stupid if I'd have done that. Mum didn't suffer fools either

Also totally agree with Twilight. That ad winds me up, too, as I think women should be educated on pelvic floor health not left to spend a small fortune on pads for the rest of their lives.

Great post, I agree, especially period poverty. They always get their nails done & have 'the phones'.
I bought my own stuff too. Mom could afford or shared, but she didn't.

 

[maymorganlondon]

I have two friends who write and speak Mom for their mothers. Born and bred British the both of them.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Reading an article regarding no nonsense skin care and came across TITTT (take it to the tits) meaning neck and chest.

It tickled me!