If they can see us, they can fleece us
How much lower can menopause marketing go?
Earlier this week I was mindlessly scrolling the internet, as is my wont, when I came across the picture above, choked on my decidedly un-pink black coffee (verboten for the menopausal laydee, don’t you know) and burst out laughing. It was attached to a hysterical piece by Lucy Sweet. I was going to quote some of it here, and then I realised I’d end up reproducing the whole thing, so here it is for your snorting pleasure.
The thing is, it’s not a joke, is it? If only. This “piss weak beverage with a picture of flowers on it” is symptomatic of the way society is now embracing menopause and the poor mugs (aka 50% of the population, give or take a percentage point) who experience it. Sick of being kept in the dark and fed BS we, the aforementioned mugs, have forced ourselves into the 21st century’s capitalist g…