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An Open Letter to Mr. James Thatcher, Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble.
Open Letter: An Open Letter to Mr. James Thatcher, Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble.
Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond An Open Letter to Mr. James Thatcher, Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble. Dear Mr. Thatcher, I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years, and I appreciate many of their features.
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Oh, I thought this would be about the commercials I've been seeing on Hulu. I decided to catch up on a show and since Hulu has it, I watched it there. And there's these Always commercials involving a sportsball woman who is able to do sports because she's a woman and has pads. I always thought that's what painkillers were for, but good for her?
I'm not particularly in love with this letter, for various reasons; personally I'm sensitive to people claiming my strong emotions are directly correlated to my period, even if its true, and even if its said from fellow period-havers.
And then Aarons continues by giving examples of how out of control people are on their periods, so they basically just invalidated themselves?
The letter was intentionally using hyperbole, I don't think the author thought that periods caused people to become homicidal manics. It came across riffing on stereotypes.
I gotcha - sometimes I miss the tone in those sorts of pieces, especially online.
It's McSweeney's, which tends to always write this way, sorta weird humor/parody stuff.