Showing posts with label puberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puberty. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The most entertaining take on menarche since Judy Blume


This advertising video for Hello Flo, by Jamie Mccelland and Pete Marquis and Hayden 5 Media, may just be the most entertaining take on girls getting their periods since Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. And like that classic, it works by good-natured pushing of boundaries around talking to young people abut their bodies:



I wonder how long it will be before One Million Morons Moms gets all upset about a tween saying "vagina" on camera. But to me, it's one more step in the normalization of the word to empower women.

Thanks to Tatjana Vukic for the tip!