Musings For Moms: Too Graphic?!

This might turn into a bit of a rant, and for that I am sorry... Just sit back and buckle up...it will all be okay.

A few months back, the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards made a big deal about not showing a commercial because it was too graphic.  The commercial shows a woman in her post-pregnancy glory, mesh panties and all.  Ladies that have given birth, we all know those mesh panties and the pads.

I have watched the commercial, there is more skin in an underwear ad that what was shown in this one.  The problem, the ginormous pad?  the squirt bottle?  These are facts of life post-pregnancy.  I had two c-sections, and these were things that were part of the recovery process.  Some women bounce back quicker than others, some take longer, have stitches, some are stapled and taped, like I was the first time.  

More women need to see these types of commercials to be aware that they are not alone, that we have all gone through it.  Why is it so taboo to talk about these things still, in this day and age.  Yet it is okay to see endless commercials for erectile dysfunction?  Guess what guys, those little blue pills probably got this women into this predicament.  

We keep holding onto this 'boys club' mentality.  CEO's of companies working well past their prime that have outdated ideas about what is graphic.  Sorry, the Victoria Secret runway show is more graphic than this commercial.  There is a cologne ad with a man in a tiny little speedo, that reveals way more skin than the woman in this ad.  The difference of course being he's fit and muscular, leaping off a cliff and this woman has her post-pregnancy belly showing out of her tank top, as she waddles to the toilet.

And don't even get me started on that naked dude dancing in his shower... I think the ad is for the shower head but I am honestly not too sure. 

I am not saying one is better than the other, I am simply saying don't say that a real commercial is too graphic when you have some muscular dude jumping into the water in a tiny white bathing suit that leaves nothing to the imagination... ironically it is a guy and not a woman jumping into the water, because that is usually how it is right?  The women are scantly clad...

Anyway, the moral of this rant is - stop putting a stigma on childbirth and all the lovely aftermath of it.