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menstrualhutTo 00g and everyone else who've asked:
Microserfs is a book by Douglas Coupland which in a gutsy move for a guy he has his female characters sitting around chatting about their cycles and such and at one point they realize that Fry's (a geek-uber-store) has male hygiene products but did not carry feminine products-- yeap, no pads or tampons etc. There's even a converstation on OB vrs applicators... anyway-- the girls start a club called Chyx (which I am sooo there about) and actually picket Fry's for being sexist.
This book is like the defining book of my life-- people who want to understand me better are directed to it. No- its not perfect but neither am I. :) And there is a microserfs LJ community though it is pretty quiet.
Anyways-- skip ahead years after I discover the book. I find out that Fry's really exists. OMG. :) The guy I was in love with lives in San Francisco and works in Silicon Valley and when I got to go out for a visit, he took me to Fry's and made sure we checked to see if they carried tampons or not before we left. Such the couplandesque moment. :)
They do now. Smack me for not buying everyone some for Christmas :)
Granted, not much of a selection and honestly I have no idea if the book was truthful or if they carried them now because of the book or ? but still-- there's a bit of poetic justice for us girl geeks in the world. :)
Fry's is the ultimate store and while they are slowly coming across the states (I'm in North Carolina) it is on my list of many reasons to move to SF. And no- guy mentioned above is not even near the list anymore.
Microserfs had a much better ending. :)
Microserfs is a book by Douglas Coupland which in a gutsy move for a guy he has his female characters sitting around chatting about their cycles and such and at one point they realize that Fry's (a geek-uber-store) has male hygiene products but did not carry feminine products-- yeap, no pads or tampons etc. There's even a converstation on OB vrs applicators... anyway-- the girls start a club called Chyx (which I am sooo there about) and actually picket Fry's for being sexist.
This book is like the defining book of my life-- people who want to understand me better are directed to it. No- its not perfect but neither am I. :) And there is a microserfs LJ community though it is pretty quiet.
Anyways-- skip ahead years after I discover the book. I find out that Fry's really exists. OMG. :) The guy I was in love with lives in San Francisco and works in Silicon Valley and when I got to go out for a visit, he took me to Fry's and made sure we checked to see if they carried tampons or not before we left. Such the couplandesque moment. :)
They do now. Smack me for not buying everyone some for Christmas :)
Granted, not much of a selection and honestly I have no idea if the book was truthful or if they carried them now because of the book or ? but still-- there's a bit of poetic justice for us girl geeks in the world. :)
Fry's is the ultimate store and while they are slowly coming across the states (I'm in North Carolina) it is on my list of many reasons to move to SF. And no- guy mentioned above is not even near the list anymore.
Microserfs had a much better ending. :)
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OOooohh!!
Date: 2001-05-22 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-05-27 07:23 am (UTC)Yes, I knew all about what the tampon isue was, I just wondered if it was actually true...I read Microserfs years ago, it's one of my favorite books.
thanks for this fantastic bit of investigative reporting! Now ee know, and knowing's half the battle!
00g