Millions of people ride the subway everyday and you can assume that about half of them are women. These women are exposed to ads for breast implants or weight loss supplements — but not a lot of ads are geared toward empowering them.
Earlier in October, ads for Thinx, a company that makes special underwear for women to wear during their period in lieu of other products like tampons or pads, were put under review by the Metropolitan Transit Authority who found the ads “too suggestive.”
See also: A woman ran the London Marathon without a tampon to protest period-shaming
If the @MTA bans these ads for using the word “period” #women will be seeing redhttps://t.co/Uu3V5zkt1N #thinx pic.twitter.com/urHfUQMzrV
— Rebecca Rivera (@rebrivved) …
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