Just what you need, more links to click on

Even though our feminism unit is technically over, I've found a couple posts from the innards of the internet that seem interesting and applicable.

This first one is about the Kotex ads that were rejected by 3 major television networks for saying the words "vagina" and "down there."

http://gawker.com/5494397/banned-from-tv-tampon-vagina

For a little comparison, here's an example of an ED ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6U7z-Nfr9M
(Throwing a football through a tire?? Honestly??)

Oh, commercials for "feminine hygiene products." If you weren't used to seeing them, you might not actually know what they were for. I think even the euphemism "feminine hygiene products" is pretty telling itself.

After reading the Foucault assignment, I'm curious about the wider use of language regarding womens' bodies, especially those functions that are unique to them.

This next link is about being child-free, from an environmental standpoint. However, as Kristeva's article mentioned destroying the myth of the archaic mother, it seems interesting that lessening the impending/current ecological disaster and freeing women may be closely related.

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-30-gink-manifesto-say-it-loud-im-childfree-and-im-proud/