The YAZ birth control commercial

[Marie_Duffy]

Being single, I am celibate. However, if I ever did find a husband to spend my life with, the last thing I would want him to do is to take a bath in a claw tub in the great outdoors. Let’s face it–that’s not the most masculine thing in the world for a guy to do. Plus, that seems like it would have a natural birth control effect–eliminating the need for the ABC.

Also, there is an ABC commercial, I’m not certain which one it is–they actually have “mannequin” like woman dancing around. I think it might be Nuvaring. How appropriate-artificial woman to advertise artificial birth control. Because you know it is ALL about my body–the natural outcome of the pro-choice movement. No time for personal growth, spritual development, etc.–it is all about my body.

I have just been re-reading C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, and this reminded me immediately of that bit in “That Hideous Strength” where they talk about people on the Moon having sex with mannequins and producing children in a laboratory.
Of course it also brings Huxley to mind… the last time I read “Brave New World” I thought, Oh, dear Lord, we’re just about there.

 

[Eucharisted]

I hate contraception commericals. Especially condom commericals. It’s always one of two themes:

• Children are a nuscience, so don’t have them
• Sex isn’t about procreation, it’s about loooove

 

[StratusRose]

I was JUST thinking the other day, ‘who in their right mind sits in a bathtub in the middle of a field or at a beach?’ I don’t find that amusing or relaxing. Who puts the tubs out there and fills them up with water? Whatever. Maybe I am over analyzing.

The Nuvaring commercial irritates me til no end. “Break free from the pack!” Ok, yeah, and become enslaved to something else that treats your fertility like a disease. These commercials put on a front that birth control is soooo liberating.

 

[Nepenthe]

Wait, water ballet is hip these days? Why did no one inform me of this? Are sequiny bathing suits and caps all the rage too, some sort of weird revival? Uh right, and all the trendy kids nowadays dance the Hustle too. Ironically or unironically? - this aging hipster must know!

We don’t watch television at home, but we were visiting some relatives over the holidays who do, and when that swimming commercial came on, we nearly fell out of our chairs laughing. Oh, advertising companies, you silly silly people!