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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 6 days
That's, uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...quite an ad University of Wisconsin-Madison Ebling Library for the Health Sciences 1970
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B J. Witkin @itsjustbeej.bsky.social · 6 days
Part of me said, "This can't be real. I mean, naming it MENrium is a just a little too on the nose." But then I remembered men. And how things were in the 70s. Dammit.
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alisonborealis (she/her) @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6 days
"Men" is also the first part of menopause and menarche (periods) though, so it's probably not actually as patriarchal a name as you think.
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alisonborealis (she/her) @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6 days
It's still an absolutely BS ad campaign. But menopause was basically being discussed as an inconvenience to men (b/c of how it affected women) into the 80s.
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B J. Witkin @itsjustbeej.bsky.social · 6 days
JFC My wife is on the verge of menopause. I can't even imagine IMPLYING that what she's going through is inconvenient to me.
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alisonborealis (she/her) @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6 days
If she's interested in raging about this particular issue, I recommend the book What Fresh Hell Is This by Heather Corinna It provides some history of menopause and society and also loads of supportive advice.