So I wanted to write and say how pissed off I was at these medical shows recently. Two of the shows which I occasionally watch happen to have this female doctor who suddenly decides like over breakfast or whatever, that she wants a baby. But oh sadly she can’t have one for some reason, and even though she’s only been thinking about this for a week it’s suddenly a MAJOR issue. But luckily for her she works at a hospital- and OMG, some young mom who wasn’t ready for a baby puts one up for adoption. What a perfect ending for a woman who wanted a baby for the past week. How nice for her that apparently if you work at a hospital someone hands you babies all the time to just keep, never mind the home study, or waiting period. Go jump off something, hospital shows.
Another thing that annoyed me recently was this truly scary commercial on Hulu for the HPV vaccine. It starts off asking the perfectly nice question, “What if?” – What if it’s love? What if he’s the one? – I’m thinking ok, it’s a bandaid commercial or cotton fabric or toilet paper, something you would use through your whole life. Then it suddenly turns into “What if you got HPV? What if you got cancer from it?”
First off, I don’t like the idea of dreams and what-ifs turning from hopeful to terrible. I do that on my own plenty of times and don’t need a commercial to give me new things to worry about. I know the commercial is supposed to scare teens into thinking about getting this vaccine, but what it really does is scare anyone who is a woman! If they are marketing a vaccine to teen-to-twenty aged ladies there is no reason to scare every lady. Especially when there’s nothing the slightly older ladies can do. Yup. We’re all doomed except those teens. Stupid commercial.