[ SECRET POST #6200 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6200 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I lived in the Midwest when I got my first period (late 80s). I was probably later than half the girls in my class and earlier than the other half. Tampons were definitely seen as being for women and pads for little girls. This was partly because tampons are even more dangerous the younger the user. Tampons were also socially linked to sex; anyone using them obviously put out (this was a good or bad thing depending on who was saying it) and anyone using pads was a virgin saving themselves for marriage (again: good or bad depending on who said it).
I saw this reflected in media frequently in the next decade. Saved by the Bell, Beverly Hills 90210, Sister Kate, and Family Matters are just the shows I can name off the top of my head that reinforced that. The commercials for the products did the same with the costuming and set choices. Seventeen, Cosmo, and Vogue were the big magazines that everyone read and they were filled with ads and columns that solidified the same view. Books aimed at teen girls written between the 60s and 80s had it, too. I’d moved on to regular adult fiction by the 90s but I’d be willing to bet the books for teens then also had that BS in there. My mother included it with The Talk and her mother did the same when she got her first period in the early 50s.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I must've missed the episode of Saved by the Bell where Jessie slutshamed Kelly for buying Tampax over Always and setting the women's movement back 50 years.

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Just because it was subtle doesn't mean it wasn't there. Even if "sex" was never discussed, it's true that the fashionable/adventurous/boy-crazy girls who wore makeup and cycled through lots of boyfriends used tampons (they also were the ones who got their periods and started growing breasts before their other friends, because G-rated interest in sex determines not only your sanitary item preference but your very biology), and shy girls who blushed at the first whiff of boy-talk used pads.

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Who. Who was this character on Saved by the Bell.

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IIRC it was Lisa telling Jessie that she was grown up enough to not have to use pads.