https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOoKf7h_iQ0
This is the advert you're complaining about? It's bloody well fantastic! Pun intended. For commenters and replies, watch the entire advert.
Advert premise:
The advert shows school girls in their teens being stigmatised by both girls and boys for using period products and they are being ridiculed.
An example is when a school girl is walking down the hallway and a pad falls out out her bag, some other school kids look at the school girl with disgust.
Always is trying to say to stop period shaming, which I think it's a fantastic message.
The final scene before the narrator comes on is a girl sitting on the toilet in a toilet cubicle, having her period. To be more exact, it's assumed she has her underwear down with a blood stain on her underwear. Though we never actually see the girl's underwear around her legs and there is nothing exposed. She seemingly does not know what to do about it and looks very concerned at the camera.
My reply to the original poster:
Seriously? Grow up. I'm going to assume you're a woman, and from your username with "67" in it, I'm going to assume your age is (or recently was) 67 or you were born in 1967 making you roughly 55. But please do correct me if I'm wrong.
I do not think you understand what paedophilia is from your comment, nor would I ever want to compare a TV advert trying to de-stigmatise period shaming as paedophilia and take away the pain and hurt from those who suffered/are suffering from paedophilia.
From your assumed age, you need to understand that times have changed and that transmen, men and women who have periods should be able to talk about periods and period products freely and this advert from Always is definitely in the right direction.
To be bluntly frank, you're acting like an entitled stereotypical "Karen". If you want to stop the period shaming and embarrassment people have talking about periods, start talking to people about your period, about period products. And one day, hopefully, periods and period products can be talked freely, just like condoms are today.
It's literally people like you @Amrothsa67, who don't understand the importance of adverts like these and because you don't understand it, you focus on the completely wrong thing.
But I hope that this advert gets a serious about of airtime, so children and teenagers, and adults begin to talk about periods and stop thinking it's a "disgusting" thing that women have. I want kids and parents to be able to communicate about period products the same way they do with condoms.
My sex may be a man and I may be incapable of having periods, but if I can understand the importance of adverts like this and this being one of the first stages of communicating freely about periods and period products, you can understand it too.
You're wrong here, get over it.
