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    Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
    Well maybe I'm bucking the tide here, but I think that letter from the Austin woman was really rude. I understand what she was saying, but I think her language was incredibly inappropriate. I would never write to a company like that unless they had intentionally caused me harm in some way. (in which case my lawyer would be writing, not me)

    Call me old fashioned, but I lament a society where people feel they can freely write to strangers with "f***ing" this and that and "get your head out of your a**", etc. Her letter would have been way more effective without the crude expressions and bad manners. There are a hundred other ways that letter could be just as funny and effective.

    Another thing- I fully realize that some women have a hard time during their periods. But I tire of the extreme cliches constantly being tossed around by some women...as though we all are 'homicidal maniacs' with 'out-of-control behavior' and want to shoot ourselves or rip our uteruses out with our bare hands when having our periods. Speak for yourself, but don't include me in this wild generalization. In my mind, the scale of pain and suffering would reach suicidal desperation somewhere in the burn victim or stomach cancer category, not in women having their periods.

    Hmmm, maybe I'm just curmudgeonly in my old age. What the heck, I'll post this anyway.

    I guess definition of satire is different this days. I always thought satire was abit more cleverly written.

    And even if the letter was satirical, the frequent joke or inference that menopausal women are homicidal maniacs or in alot of pain/discomfort once every month, is gettin' abit threadbare and tiresome..especially for a significant portion of women that I personally know who don't suffer much at all when they had their periods. General attitude is: yea, I got my period. Let's move on..what is really new and interesting in life?
    Last edited by shootingstar; 01-23-2009 at 07:33 PM.

 

 

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