We’ve reached a new low, or rather Women’s Day magazine and Summer’s Eve personal hygiene products have. According to a recent large display ad, if you are planning on asking for a raise at work, you better have a clean vagina:
#1 …start with your usual routine and all the things you do to feel your best, including showering with Summer’s Eve Feminine Wash or throwing a packet of Summer’s Eve Feminine Cleaning Cloths into your bag for a quick freshness pick-me-up during the day.
To be fair, there are a few glimmers of good, clean advice among the 8 suggestions: eat a good breakfast, don’t be late, and especially #6: ‘Don’t be afraid of silence. Effective negotiation requires using strategic pauses…’
Don’t be holding your breath for redemption though, as #8, the very last suggestion, is: ‘Focus on things you’ve done to improve the bottom line. Today it’s about your worth to the company.’ And, they put that one last because…??? I’m not sure how this nugget correlates with having a clean vagina.
Who is this marketing team?
Well, maybe I’m just having one of my ‘respect for women – in and out of the workplace’ days, but I’m appalled and disgusted. And, I retain my constitutional right to personally choose how and when to clean my genitals.
Are you with me? Would you purchase a product that uses this type of advertising?
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This is quite interesting! Not only the advertiser, but also the surprised response from a WOMAN! I am very aware and attentive to my own hygiene, and make sure I have bathed always! I am not condoning the ad, but, one area to re-consider is: Have you ever worked in an office with over 20 women? It can be more disgusting than the boys’ locker room. I am appalled that our sisters are not more hygienically minded. I want to hurl sometimes at the odors coming from my co-workers. It can be diet, bathing (or not), heredity, medication, who knows! Seriously, if some of these women had started their day with Summers Eve, that closed door meeting would be more tolerable. Just the other side of maybe “why” they chose their message. And lets be real, asking for a raise can be stressful, however, I do not believe that makes women more susceptible to needing to douche, but, again, who knows?
Well said…