This is the first time, for no particular reason, that I did not finish a piece in one go and had a chance to drop a word about it to a few friends. A mention of this topic had unidirectional reaction. It was simple. Most male friends turned and made humming sounds to put a sound curtain, others dug their head in a pillow to filter 'noise,' while few were generous to spare extreme reaction and gave a sweet blank look of no comments.
The female friends on other hand, without going into the details gave a casual look of being clueless or biased or worse, ignorant. My feedback is that they knew less about it than the boys. Boys had secretly researched about it to update self created Wikipedia section of their brain or maybe had a practical situation thrown at them at a point of time... Girls had of course taken it personally and rejected the idea, most of them...
So my point is not to stir the territory, I just succumbed to the series of 'date an IITian, date a girl who reads, date a guy who travels' series... Just that my head gave this 'wonderful' link instead of academic or leisure choices and outcomes. My argument would be that dating is a fairly personal choice, so why not draw a similarity of pattern between two very personal choices, tampons being one for sure!
Before going into the reasons of why date a girl who uses tampons, here are few basic stats for perspective. These are little of an eye opener, but alas, they also shrink the dating target segment that I endorse. There are nearly 1.7 billion women in the potential segment but tampon penetration is extremely poor, less than 6%. This is despite the fact that they have been commercially available since 1930's. The widespread reasons range from true, lame and outright stupid, those being - expensive, comparatively inaccessible, perception of discomfort, and general hesitation. And of course, if one were to believe the highly popular myth or doubt regarding tampons, then nearly 100 million women in this world lost their virginity to this swab of cotton!
So if the idea of dating someone who may have lost 'it' to a non living object without being a necrophiliac doesn't disturb you much, here is why she gets better grades:
She is a no nonsense person. She believes in tackling problems by nipping them in the bud. She doesn't like drama. She won't nag over things and be a drama queen. She would not exaggerate the trivial and get done with it quick. The tampon girl became one because she dislikes fuss completely. That is good right, a girl who isn't fussy?
She is smart, inquisitive and solution-oriented. In our society, specially being a developing country where Tampon is rarely used or discussed and never advertised, she is actually the one who looked up online or wondered if there is something else out there, more convenient. She looked for solutions without assuming that there aren't any! That is one good trait- someone who thinks and looks for answers and is not hell bent on problems that seem persistent.
She is same, not all days of the month but all months of the year, that is if you plan on dating that long...Yeah, this is why most women take up on using Tampons at the first place. They don't want to give up on that trek or adventure trip or something as basic as swimming or running or wearing a particular dress. Tampon girl is not only smart and no-nonsense, but she wants to be so every single day. No being different on different days or what is perceived as mood swings!
She is damn adjusting. Yes, like cheese, beer, black coffee and stevia, tampon is also an acquired habit...(Do I find myself hearing why oh why! would you compare it with all these things?) Yes, it is acquired after initial rendezvous with discomfort and one has to give time to let the feeling of 'no feeling' grow on you. So a Tampon girl doesn't entirely rejects anything new that she isn't aware of. She is willing to try and give a fair chance to what sounds logical to ensure she doesn't overlook something that might be 'oh-so-good' eventually. See that? Fair chance if its worth it!
There are few other small, daily lifestyle things which I refrain from digging lest it gets to the level of 'too much information.' But that's the bottom line. Tampon girl is rational, patient and completely chilled out. That is a great girl to date...
But I wonder if after reading the articles of the like, people were actually asking for degrees and alma-mater and reading choices of their first date, how do they plan to find out this girl? Pharmacy aisle stalking sounds like a decent plan. However, refrain from asking this to a girl upfront. She may not mind the question, might even answer but will definitely think you are a little creepy or a complete jerk.
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