wait, let me get this straight...!

[evirus]

you mean to tell me there such outrage about "edgy" videogames, but theres not a peep about the tampon/pad commercials?

when im watching tv alone or with my girlfriend or family, its pretty much akward for all parties involved, does anyone agree with me?

[AlCzervik]

1. tampon ads are much less "Awkward" than stiffy pill ads imo.

[Jamastiene]

21. Yep. Those ED commercials just

outrage me. It seems that if someone has lost interest, they should just give it up. I mean if you gotta take a pill to make it happen, then pfft, forget it. I personally think the stiffy pills ads are silly. Even if I was all for it, the ads are silly and deranged in some way, as if people go around telling everyone about it if they have it. :shrug:

[JVS]

65. I tend to file it under the "reasons society is too sick to survive" file

Evo Shandor was right

[crim son]

2. I think there's a question about the effect that

"edgy" videogames (nice euphemism, BTW) has on certain personalities. Pretty sure there's no such question concering tampon ads.

[evirus]

6. if that where true

then strobe lights and stressful settings should be banned on principle

[crim son]

7. I don't believe that.

But I still think my point is valid.

[evirus]

13. what i ment is...

limiting things just because they can effect certain people in a certain way, is rather harsh, because much like the examples ive stated a lot of things can effect people in the way some games effect people, why should we think limiting games as ok but limiting the use of strobelights as extreme?

[crim son]

18. I don't think I mentioned limiting anything,

but I do understand what you're trying to say. I do in fact find the violent games horrible and worthless. Having said that, I believe in personal responsibility, so play on!

[evirus]

24. but its not violence for the sake of violence

grand theft auto: san andreas actualy has a story line that has strong moral overtones about not using drugs(all be it only a few types) commitment and loyalty scattered throughout its story, the problem is does the player play for the story or play for the violence? similar question is does the movie goer watch Saw for the bloodshed or for the story?

[crim son]

44. You're not going to persuade me that these games are a worthy

way to spend one's time. I've heard all the arguments and my answer has to be, why don't you read something by Dickens and improve your mind while relaxing? We will have to agree to disagree, okay?

[evirus]

47. because Dickens isn't interactive

unlike movies and most books, games dont force you into the subject matter. with games you can choose how violent you are, do you slip by the guards and only kill the drug dealer? or do you shower the place with bullets and spare no one?

[ldf]

55. the most active things with video games

are your thumbs. big deal.

with dickens you read words. (yes, i know that is the first hurdle that must be overcome, the inability to read...)

from those little black symbols on paper, your imagination creates it's own world, and a unique interpretation from any other person reading the exact same thing.

why are movies of books you have read seldom, if ever as good? because NOTHING can replace the imagination.

thumb-eye coordination ain't all its cracked up to be.

[Jamastiene]

63. Isn't GTA the game that has the rape scenes in it?

I have a problem with the option to rape in a game, but no problem with consentual sex. Honestly, I wish there was more consentual sex in some games where it fits the plot line. It would be interesting to have some reality television games, IMHO. I'd love to see a Big Brother game complete with a showmance.

[jobycom]

53. What's going on? Who's limiting video games?

The last debate I heard was over the warning label system. Companies like RockStar were trying to cheat the voluntary label system by creating games that they could market at a lower rating, then hiding programming that could be unlocked by mods to increase the violence or sexuality of the game. No one was trying to limit them or ban them, they were simply claiming that RockStar had to put honest labels on their games if they were going to use the labeling system. That would be like someone making vegetarian chili and slipping meat into it, or someone putting peanuts into a product without labeling it.

Is there some new video game debate I haven't heard?

[Book Lover]

3. I can't speak for anyone else, but, um, no

I suggest a bit of growing up.

[Fuzz]

4. Ever feel, um, not so fresh?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. It you find a tampon commercial awkward, you need to grow up.

The connection between video games and tampons is also a strawman argument.

[crim son]

8. You can be a real bitch sometimes, you know?

:evilgrin:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. I take that as a compliment.

[crim son]

15. I don't doubt it!

:)

[evirus]

9. "mister big sticks"

im pretty sure theres something unbecomming of a meaningful discussion by cutting it down to a simple statement like "grow up"

maybe i overestimated peoples willingness to discuss things past the "five secound kidney punch" types of responses

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. I'm sorry, but a tampon commerical is something any mature adult should

be able to handle without feeling embarassed. The responses you're recieving are merely indicative of that.

[evirus]

20. prehaps your over reading my words then

i don't mean i feel akward to the point of social embarassment, i just have the same response as an annoying commercial, neither i feel like sitting through. my orignal intention was to question why the censorship people can get so bent out of shape about a little blood, a few breasts, or even something sexual, but no even shudder while seeing the feminine hygine commercials on tv

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. It's just a hygiene product.

There's nothing sexual about a tampon or a pad. Hell, if you want to talk about censorship and "sex" in commercials then why not viagra or cialis commercials? Why not the average beer commercial?

Also, since you stated in your OP, "when im watching tv alone or with my girlfriend or family, its pretty much akward for all parties involved" I wouldn't consider it "over reading" your words to take the stance that I did.

[Jamastiene]

31. .

Well said.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. Thank you.

[Book Lover]

26. Are you aware that kotex commercials are restricted to certain times and

shows? I would call that a kind of censorship.

[evirus]

28. ill give on that...

honestly i watch tv vary rarely but at the times i do watch it it never fails to see some hygine commercial of previously stated nature.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I have to say, I've never felt awkward during a tampon commercial.

[Blue-Jay]

14. Then you should be safe from ridicule.

(clarity edit. sorry)

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Damn you, I thught you said I should be ridiculed.

There goes my self-depricating humour. x(

[Blue-Jay]

17. I'm sorry. I ruined it by editing.

Beer, and all that....

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Jesus you're quick.

[Blue-Jay]

27. Quicker than a bean burrito through someone with Crohn's disease

[Skittles]

39. I'll never forget an ex-coworker of mine

he told me he got over his fear of tampons when he had four teenage daughters :D

[Kali]

22. All commercials make me feel edgy. That's why I don't watch TV.

And when I do see it - say at the local pizza joint....well it tends to make me feel sort of like a bad acid trip or something - makes you insantly understand what is wrong with the entire planet, too - television.

[evirus]

29. i can go for a few commercials

mostly the redstripe beer commercials, a1 sauce commercials, you know the humorous ones, but realy i haven't seen any creative feminine hygene commercials, just direct and too the point, not interesting at all, probably a contributer to how i feel about them

[blondeatlast]

58. Pardon the shout but TAMPON COMMERCIALS TO THE POINT?!

That's the funniest thing I've seen on DU in a while!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

69. Yeah, especially since the average tampon commercial involves

frolicking through a field or something, which is just so direct and to the point.

[blondeatlast]

77. Frock-wearing frolicking in the flowers just shouts PERIOD, don't it? nt

[Nicole]

23. Tampon/pad commercials

aren't awkward for me in anyone's company.

They are no different than toilet paper, toothpaste, mouthwash or kleenex tissue commericals. They all advertise hygiene products that people need.

[Jamastiene]

30. Bingo.

I don't see how watching a woman walking through a field of flowers feeling super fresh can be awkward. I would think most people would find that to be a peaceful scene. I mean for the PT commercials they show how to use them. The OP should just be glad they don't do that with TP commercials. Tampons are, like you said, just hygiene products. No big deal...:shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

32. I dunno...When they talk about "feeling fresh" I crack up.

To be fair, I also laugh at the Boner-Bob commercials.

[evirus]

33. your right

tampons are just hygiene products, just like breasts are just a way to feed a baby, if people can get worked up about seeing a nipple i should at least be able to have my own opinion about the commercials

[Nicole]

36. Wrong

Breasts aren't just for feeding babies. My breasts only fed a baby for about a year. They've been sexual objects all of my adult life, trumping baby by about 30 years. :rofl:

[Jamastiene]

38. Haha, you actually think that is the only use for breasts or

even the main use? :rofl:

I told my elderly aunt about your post. she had this to say (paraphrased to clean it up):
As an alternative, we women can just quit telling the generation coming up behind us altogether about tampons, panty liners, and pads and stop those commercials as well. See how you like it when we let the nasty stinky stuff run through our clothes and down our legs for a while. You'll be begging for a tampon commercial, anything, to end that torturous awkwardness. :evilgrin:

Note to self: I really need to get her computer back up and running so she can come here too. DU needs her even if her comments push the line when it comes to what is against the rules and what is not.

[Nicole]

41. Your aunt sounds like a riot!

I think we need her here too. :rofl:

[evirus]

42. if that where true

then the tabbaco industry would have been out of money for years, i decided to drink some water this morning, was there a commercial for water on the television that i saw recently? no, by this logic i would have succumed to dehydration.

[blondeatlast]

59. You are entitled to your opinion (within the constraints of DU rules,

of course).

We're just as entitled to disagree (apparently overwhelmingly) with them.

[Nicole]

35. Seems harmless to me

I'm guessing the OP is still a teen. If so, he will learn there are more embarrassing things in his future. Wait until his wife or girlfriend asks him to go buy the darn things. :evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

37. I love it.

They are just a little bit of cotton and cardboard/sometimes plastic. How can they cause such scorn among men when a commmercial advertises them?

I like your way of looking at things. :evilgrin:

[Nicole]

40. Thanks.

:evilgrin:

[evirus]

43. Enough with the subtlety

What the hell is wrong with you people?

I was trying to create a meaningful discussion about the schizophrenic anti sexuality in the media, shielding our eyes from nudity but not caring about products advertised to asist in one of the inconveniences of the female reproductive system, as well as condoms, lubricant, and phone sex lines (obviously only mentioned tampons/pads because i see them the most frequently) perhaps my wording was so strong as to throw you off and lead you to the conclusion that I was in some way immature. but come on is that how you talk to people, calling them immature and telling them to grow up instead of simply contributing to the topic at something above an insulting level?

[GalleryGod]

56. Well put, indeed. But remember...

School's almost back in session, and, here at dear old, DUJHS...
we're still ,ya know, like, sorting out which tables we'll all sit at in the Caf, ya' know?:sarcasm:











:rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[Jamastiene]

62. Why didn't you mention the ED commercials as well?

You should be more specific and say "commercials about private parts" if you do not want people to think you only mean the tampons. We cannot read minds, you know.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

70. Your OP didn't contain anything to make us this you were...

"trying to create a meaningful discussion about the schizophrenic anti sexuality in the media, shielding our eyes from nudity but not caring about products advertised to asist in one of the inconveniences of the female reproductive system, as well as condoms, lubricant, and phone sex lines."

However, you did mention how they made you feel "akward" (which I assume is the same as awkward) and so by responding to what your OP actually said, we called you immature.

If you want to not be misunderstood, I recommend reading your posts over to see if they actually convey what you're trying to say and using a spell check as well. Getting used to doing this will also help succeed in school, because here unclear writing causes you to get talked to at an "insulting level" (actually the appropriate level of discourse, according to the OP we had to go on), but in school, it will lead to shitty grades. Literacy is good. I suggest reading some books and playing less video games, because you'll find they really do expand your mind and imagination way more than a video ever could.

[Rabrrrrrr]

75. Your continued inability to understand how tampons have nothing

to do with "sex" merely restates all the more forcefully that you have not yet grown up into a healthy sense of sexual maturity.

Tampons have as much to do with sex as urinal cakes, underwear, or sewage pipes.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. Ding-ding-ding.

We have a winner.

:thumbsup:

[JVS]

67. Essential products shouldn't need to be advertised.

If they are so important, then you'd know of their availability through need and word of mouth.

[Deja Q]

45. It's all relative.

Violence vs sex; funny how violence is more popular. :D

[evirus]

46. THANK YOU

wow one of the few people who actualy got what i was talking about

[progmom]

51. except that i don't see how tampons have anything to do with sex

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

71. Tampons have nothing to do with sex.

[progmom]

48. the people who object to those games say they promote violence

tampons/pads promote dryness.

:shrug:

[Misunderestimator]

49. I think it's hilarious that tampon commercials make you feel awkward.

especially when you are alone. :rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

60. They make ME feel awkward; my blood's not blue

:scared: What's wrong with me?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

52. Since WHEN does a tampon have anything to do with sex?

*scratches head*

I get the analogy you're trying to draw here, but if it's a "violence vs. sex" thing you're going for, why not do "video games vs. boner pills"? Seems to me a boner's got a hell of a lot more to do with sex than a frikkin tampon does.

[progmom]

54. see - now you said this so much more eloquently than i did

:applause:

[MissMillie]

73. End of story--you said it all.

:applause:

[caty]

57. It used to be that only women

got embarrassed by certain commercials. Now, men get to be embarrassed too. Men--welcome to the club of watching something you might use, but would rather no one knew about it.

[MiniMandaRuth]

61. I, as a female gamer, agree.

But then again, Jack Thompson still has to go on his crusades. Most of the dirt stirred up is stirred up by him.

Just wait until 'Bully' is released. That'll be fun :)

[Broken_Hero]

64. I was just reading up on Bully

looks like a pretty decent game to me...:)

[MiniMandaRuth]

66. Ah, but Mr. Thompson...

will have a few things to say about it.

But it looks like a fun game. :evilgrin:

[Broken_Hero]

68. Yeah, :)

I got a monthly subscription to...Gamer Pro I think its called...I got it at Game Exchange, they talked me into subscribing to it, this months issues cover story was Bully...:)

Looks interesting, according to the magazine, baseball bats, and pool sticks are the only weapons, no blood...and you get to take classes, homework, skip class...typical school things like that. Looks really interesting actually....:) :hi:

[Quantess]

72. "Feminine product" commercials used to embarrass me, when I was a teenager

I imagined that cute guys were watching those commercials, and that they would have the commercial emblazoned into their brains when they looked my way. I imagined they were thinking 'she looks just like the girl in the not-so-fresh commercial'. :D

But hey, that's adolescence.

[Rabrrrrrr]

74. They are awkward only in a sexually immature society like ours.

And I find it very sad.

[sendero]

76. I dunno..

... I got over being "embarrassed" or whatever over feminine hygiene products a long time ago.

My wife bleeds. It's a fact of life. It isn't good or bad, it just is. She's not doing something wrong when it happens.

Come on guys, if anything, the cycle of life in a woman's body is a source of wonder and reverence, not shame.

[bicentennial_baby]

78. tampons, periods, yadda yadda yadda...

Yeah, it's called the biological process that makes us able to bear your children...Deal with it. Jeebus :eyes:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

79. How dare you respond like that!

He's trying to have a civil conversation about important issues facing America today and people keep telling him to grow up.

:sarcasm:

[bicentennial_baby]

80. ...

:spray:

hey you.... :hug:

how are ya, beautiful lady? :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

81. Eh.

I have a headache from my mom using a cleaner I'm allergic too. Other than that I'm okay. I've been fighting some stupidity in GD, but not as bad as yesterday's stupidity.

[bicentennial_baby]

82. Hang in there soldier

:hug:

You can do it :)

:loveya: