by Elizabeth Kissling | Apr 26, 2010 | Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
The Jamaica Observer has published a list of menstrual myths, apparently as a public service to its readers. Among the fallacies: Do not go to a funeral and look at the dead while having your period as this will cause your bones to rot. If a menstruating woman cans...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 27, 2010 | Celebrities, Humor, Menstruation, Television
I’m surely not the only fan of Amy Poehler and Parks and Recreation around here, am I? (Oh, Amy Poehler, have you been reading my mail? Leslie Knope is more like me than I care to admit.) As I’ve written elsewhere, menstruation is seldom mentioned or...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Mar 2, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, FemCare, Television
In the grand tradition of Ms. magazine, we present the latest installment of SNL’s “Classic ESPN Women’s Sports Tournament” with NO COMMENT. (OK, if you really want to know what we think, see our previous posts about this misogynist series....
by Chris Bobel | Feb 19, 2010 | Humor, Men, PMS, Television
If you watched the Super Bowl this year, you likely saw the new Dodge Charger ad “Man’s Last Stand.” If not, drop what you are doing and watch it right this minute and sound the gender panic alarm! There’s a crisis! Masculinity is endangered!...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Feb 10, 2010 | Celebrities, Communication, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Newspapers, Television
Guest Post by David Linton, Marymount Manhattan College Four years ago I published an article in Sex Roles (March 2006) about the twists and turns of the media coverage of a scandal that came to be known as “Camillagate.” It concerned the publication of a...
by Chris Bobel | Jan 28, 2010 | Humor, Internet, Men, Menstruation, Television
All this iPad humor has got us thinking about menstrual humor more generally–what’s funny (to some) what’s not (to others), why and why not. In the end, anything-menstruation is almost always met with either 1) a shudder and a swift topic shift OR 2)...
