Good article.
There are various ways to get Calcium without drinking milk. My HAZCOM Song has a line about lactose intolerance http://bit.ly/e88T9g

I, uh, nevermind. Bye.

Funny stuff. If you can’t laugh at yoursel… well… then you’re probaly uptight and grumpy. lol

Er no Bunny- but thanksferthepoppsychoanalysis, LOL!

Really? Cause I get it each and every month (and yeah- I’m doing perimenopause too Linda TOO) and I CAN laugh at it. Humor gets me through many situations instead of crying or becoming bitter.

It is not the PMS what they are making fun of. It is the taking advantage of what they are talking about. I get it every month but my husband and others do not have to pay for my PMS. Believe me, women that suffer severe PMS, the kind that will REALLY make you bitchy, do not have the energy to be bitchy about it.

Since when do married men remember to buy milk?

Funny,when I quite eating and drinking all milk products,I STOPPED having PMS. Along with that,my skin started to look SO much better and everyone said i looked at least 5 years younger. Also,I haven’t had a yeast infection since quitting all milk products,nor have I been sick,even a little bit,one single time. It’s been 6,almost 7 years since I stopped all milk products and my health is still better than ever. I’m 36 and get told I look no older than 24 all of the time,by both younger and older people (and people my own age!). Milk is not something that was designed for human consumption,though the dairy industry will try and try to tell you different. People,you’ve been lied to your whole lives! Cow’s milk is for baby cows.

I’m sorry, but I don’t really appreciate it when people brush me off as having PMS whenever I’ve got a legitimate concern about something, and I doubt many other women who have to deal with that bullshit don’t either. I have nothing against the product their trying to push, or the reasons (to aid the symptoms of PMS), but what I DO mind it the further propagation of the stereotype that women are raging irrational monsters when they’re on their period. The whole concept takes away women’s validity as people, and turns them into mutants that have to be “dealt with” once a month with milk. I don’t know about other women, but I find that bullshit irritating enough to deal with already without a man coming up with a big ol’ glass of milk telling me to “calm down lol”. All this is is a campaign to push milk as another object for men to use to undermine women with.

“Butbutbut!!! Don’t look at what it actually says! You have to ignore the poor poor men on the poster whining about having to deal with their bitchy girlfriends/spouses! You have to look underneath all that and realize that this is for you women…with PMS.” This is a professional company that’s supposed to appeal to a wide range of people, and they are failing at it, hard.

Actually just seen some of the ads. So funny. I’m sitting at my desk laughing now. I guess the milk companies knew exactly who their target was

I don’t call it a period. I call it a ‘comma’, because there’s a brief pause and then it continues the next month, and then the next month, and so forth and so on. A period means finality and that there’s an end. There’s no end in sight over here… LOL My wife found my reasoning humorous. We always refer to it as a comma, and not a period.

By the way, since those ads came out, I’ve stopped drinking milk. I take my calcium everyday anyway, and I actually feel better.

Shish, as a male allow me to be somewhat angered by the ads portraying castrated men… Historically I’ve disliked sexist humor, ironically women who are sensitive about being portrayed as idiots seemingly find a lot of humor seeing men portrayed as numbnuts in commercials and TV programs… I’ve been told I lack a sense of humor when I become angered seeing men’s testicles constantly being battered in home video programs and other TV productions (ha ha, so funny!), I’ve noticed more and more young women parroting what they’ve heard on TV, sadly because most men don’t protect their dignity (as a European I’m amazed as to how American males allow themselves to be emotionally battered) many women feel they have a free hand at belittling men, when they are confronted with common sense sadly they’re at an intellectual loss.

I bet everone of these ladies have at least chuckled at a man being accidently hit in the groin. Hmmmm? Look at the women in the Middle East and the Baby girls in China and some African countries are treated and see if your complaints don’t pale in comparison.

Observe the effects of attitude discrepancies!

If you’ve accepted a negative or victim-oriented attitude, you’ll find these offensive. If you feel that you’re being “minimised” or otherwise insulted, you are probably suffering from various levels of insecurity that are, in fact, affecting multiple areas of your life without your concious awareness. You probably think that you encounter a lot of “jerks” in your every day experience and blame others for your general state of unhappiness.

If, on the other hand, you enjoyed the ads, you’re more likely to have a positive attitude. You typically see the best in people. It’s possible you may be perceived as “naive” by some, but can take solace in the fact that you’re also happier, more fulfilled, probably more successful, and definitely more well-liked than your critics.

Were I to adopt the attitude of the latter, I would choose to accept and tolerate the fact that many in society suffer quietly and in ignorance, and use internet forums to express their misdirected anger and feelings of inadequacy.

Were I to adopt the attitude of the former, I would choose to tell my cohorts to STFU and go do something that contributes to the good of society. Perhaps getting sterilised.