Valerie Keefe
Writer, activist, candidate, unpaid political consultant, service-sector prole, and general nuisance
Libra Tampons, A Little Bit of Free Advice
Posted: 1/4/12 05:59 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-keefe/libra-tampon-ad_b_1182653.htmlI suppose it's a measure of progress that much of the trans community can manage to get exercised over what is, yes, a blatantly cissexist tampon ad. And it's probably a measure of my own flitting and occasionally frivolous nature that I could get in any way exercised about an ad in New Zealand, one of the few countries that has elected trans people to parliament, when there are serious political battles being waged in Canada, a three-way fight for the Republican nomination where one of the participants could seriously infringe on trans rights while the other two would appoint people who would do that either directly or indirectly, and the danger that SOPA poses to informed-consent medicine. But this is more than about politics.
This ad isn't that offensive to me as a trans woman (though it definitely did try to be), but it was offensive to basic standards of comedy.
