Summer's Eve and Women's Day Magazine have advice for American women who may not be earning as much as their male colleagues, and need a bit of confidence-boosting before asking for a raise.
Apparently you won't get a raise if you have smelly ladybits. Not that you'll be getting much of a raise anyway in this economy.
And make sure to cover-up your humanness with these carcinogen-filled consumer products before manning-up enough to demand wages fit for a man!! Very clever marketing gimmick. Reminds me of the new Old Spice commercials aimed at women and their smelly spouses and vice versa.
douche... {can you say that in thread titles? Would that violate the Canadian Press Style Guide? Alex?}
Yes it would. Changed.
And while I get the joke, the ad's for douches for women, the use of the word "douche" as pejorative violates babble's policy against using misogynist language.
Well, at least rabble's protecting women somewhat while they let the PoPo off easy.
This is stupid. The opposite it true, all that musky lady smell will subconsciously attract the men to her due to pheremones, which should in fact earn her a raise. Well, I mean obviously not if you haven't washed in a week....
"earn her a raise" ?????
bravebeing are you kidding me with that sexist crap? Stop it. First and last warning.
This is stupid. The opposite it true, all that musky lady smell will subconsciously attract the men to her due to pheremones, which should in fact earn her a raise. Well, I mean obviously not if you haven't washed in a week....
Or, we could get totally crazy, and just pay her what she is worth. Fuck.
On second thought, you're outta here, bravebeing.
I'm getting mellow in my old(er) age. WTF is up with that? 
Back to the thread topic.
Actually, as any feminist could tell you, caring for children and part-time work are among the reasons cited for wage disparity in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's just-released findings about disparities across the nations.
Even though Canadian women posted better academic achievements than men at all levels - " in high school, women have a graduation rate 8 per cent higher than men, which rises to 11 per cent for college programs and 18 per cent for university dgrees...women with a postsecondary education still earned on average just 63 per cent of the salary of similarly educated men." Those findings, in Wednesday's Globe, were from a study released by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada.
Canadian earning inequities across the sexes were only two per cent worse, 61 per cent, in 1988. College and university educated women in OECD countries earn 71 per cent what men do.
Anyway, once upon a time, women of the late National Action Committee on the Status of Women would have reminded Steve and cohort. Drool about deodorants would have brought shame to any "progressive" organization.
Transient thing perhaps maysie?
I had thought so about myself too until this past week end when 'douche bag' was used as a pejorative at my house.
It is just another public, read patriarchial, mechanism to demean women on a wholesale scale, much like that fuckwit who called women skanky on etalk, who showed too much skin and had a back tattoo.
All the women attending TIFF should expose their skin and tattoo's IMV.
In 24 years as a pharmacist, I never recommended douches. They're not needed, ever, and may actually be harmful. Killing too much of the bacteria down there sets women up for opportunistic infections like yeast, etc.
As commercial products that personify misogyny go, douches are up there.
Favourite comment from Doug's link:
Me, I always scrub down my scrotum with Lava for Men With Baking Soda soap and anoint it with special Metholated Bag Balm before interviews and performance reviews.
In 24 years as a pharmacist, I never recommended douches. They're not needed, ever, and may actually be harmful. Killing too much of the bacteria down there sets women up for opportunistic infections like yeast, etc.
As commercial products that personify misogyny go, douches are up there.
Favourite comment from Doug's link:
Me, I always scrub down my scrotum with Lava for Men With Baking Soda soap and anoint it with special Metholated Bag Balm before interviews and performance reviews.
My favorite wins the reward for 'Totally Missing the Point', "Just not getting it' and "Most humorous and what the heck is that! justification"
I'm sure this is EXACTLY what the ad writers were thinking... lol (yes I shouldn't laugh but it's a black humor type 'omg I can't believe somebody wrote this in all seriousness ' type of laughing)
I don't think this is that bad; it's just an allusion to the practice of cleansing yourself before battle that dates back thousands of years. People have recognized since at least ancient Greece that if you take extra effort to clean and groom yourself before a battle then you'll feel better and do better. That's the same thing this ad is playing on. They're not telling you to use the product because if you have a smelly vag you won't get the job, it's just saying that if you clean yourself well before the interview you'll have more self confidence and you'll probably do better. Which is probably accurate.It makes sense too because a job interview is probably the closest that most Americans will ever get being in battle. It's a single defining moment where their lives will significantly change either way depending on how they do. Far from being degrading to women, I think it's just giving women the same advice that we've traditionally given to men in these sorts of situations since classical times. If they took the same ad and swapped out the soap for axe body spray or whatever I doubt people would be complaining.
Agree completely Eliza Q --- like the following reply though, short and to the point.
I've never had to make sure my d**k is clean before I've asked for a raise. And my boss has never asked to see it before he said 'no.
I doubt people would be complaining.
This use of "people" = women
and basically states women bitching about nothing again as per usual.
