Women are about the be bombarded with DTC ads for Lybrel:
“So what’s a poor company to do?” Houppert writes, adding, “Re-conceptualize menstruation as a disease in need of treatment.” She writes, “And what’s a poor menstruating woman to do? Get cranky with the prophets who offer to cure us of menstruation; who minimize the complex interplay of hormones and their many roles in our bodies; who gloss over the still unknown long-term effects of menstrual suppression; who promise that cycle-free women are better lovers, mothers, workers. Or just don’t buy” the pills.
