by Saniya Lee Ghanoui | Mar 10, 2014 | Communication, Media, Menarche, Menstruation
For those living in or around New York City, the New York Public Library currently has an exhibition called “The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter.” As the title suggests, the exhibit looks at popular children’s stories—consisting of The Wizard of Oz and Mary...
by Chris Bobel | May 19, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Language, Menstruation, Television
Monday morning: A friend tips me off that Joan Rivers’s on-TV use of the word PERIOD was bleeped! Yes, dear reader, somewhere, a censor deems even the innocuous euphemism for MENSTRUATION unsuitable for television. Uh…speechless. [You can view the clip at...