Begins and Ends with Fatberg
Aug. 5th, 2013 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Me: fatberg! http://www.ediblegeography.com/sewer-watch/
Ciro: Horrifying
Me: I like that wet wipes are in there as a big problem! I had no idea, but it makes sense: they are cloth/filters that don't break down when wet and occasionally impregnated with solvents.
PS a lot of commercials on now trying to say that you should use wet wipes along with toilet paper every time you go to the bathroom, in a shameless attempt to make women buy more wet wipes. (All these ads targeted at women.)
Very douchey.
Ciro: Guh. Muh.
Me: Normally they involve one woman shaming another woman, being let down because the toilet isn't properly stocked. Oh you bad hostess, bad, horrible person.
I have literally never known anyone who uses wet wipes in this way, or if they do they are doing it extra sneaky
but I guess people are doing it extra sneaky! because fatberg
Ciro: Horrifying
Me: I like that wet wipes are in there as a big problem! I had no idea, but it makes sense: they are cloth/filters that don't break down when wet and occasionally impregnated with solvents.
PS a lot of commercials on now trying to say that you should use wet wipes along with toilet paper every time you go to the bathroom, in a shameless attempt to make women buy more wet wipes. (All these ads targeted at women.)
Very douchey.
Ciro: Guh. Muh.
Me: Normally they involve one woman shaming another woman, being let down because the toilet isn't properly stocked. Oh you bad hostess, bad, horrible person.
I have literally never known anyone who uses wet wipes in this way, or if they do they are doing it extra sneaky
but I guess people are doing it extra sneaky! because fatberg
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-05 08:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-05 08:54 pm (UTC)I have yet to see an ad of this kind targeting uncircumcised men.
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Date: 2013-08-05 09:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-05 09:03 pm (UTC)Although I imagine there are times when they are useful and people for whom they are useful (and obviously there are, because there are wet wipes making their way into the sewage system), these ads are asserting a social norm that does not as far as I know exist (and using them to shame women into buying stuff to feel "clean" - hence my saying it's douchey).
Yet it could be me who is wrong. It is interesting to contemplate what adults do in their own bathrooms; I have a general curiosity about it and about hygene habits in a way that is not so much judgemental as analogous to the way other people are curious about the sex other people are having (or not having).