M is for Monday, and

[write-light.livejournal.com]

M is for Modess!

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[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, Modess--once a famous brand, but too soon relegated to middle school & high school bathroom vending machines. In the sixties you had to wear a belt around your waist and fasten these humungous things in the little loops on the front and back. They "graduated" to safety pins in the seventies. Ecchhhh.

I guess they had to invent Post-its first before they could come up with the stick-on pads, then move on to pads with wings.

Does anyone else suspect that it took them so long to move forward with these damnable things because the companies were all run by men?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Especially since most innovations in feminine protection were inspired by women. Makes you wonder what other inventions or developments in feminine hygiene have been suppressed over the years because some male marketing geniuses didn't think women would buy it, the profit margin was too low, or whatever. The menstrual cup (http://menstrual-cups.livejournal.com/3027682.html#comments) is the perfect example of that. You can't make big bucks off an item that costs less than $50 and needs to be replaced only about every 10 years unless it gets lost or damaged.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Excellent point about the Menstrual Cup--I remember when it came out, some time in the mid-seventies, and just as quickly it disappeared. That's par for the course, unfortunately, regarding the history of women's healthcare--from higher insurance rates to refusing coverage for birth control to ignoring the growing prevalence in heart disease in post-menopausal women. It's a sorry history indeed.