Pink and sparkly

A little excerpt from a chat I had with a friend of mine the other day:

me: ugh i got new deodorant the other day and all it does is bunch up in little clumps in my armpit

it looks like i rubbed feta cheese there

her: ew

deodorant is a wonderful invention, but formulas vary

me: yes

i have not found a winner yet

her: i refuse to buy one with sparkles

this limits my options

me: now i have to go check mine to see if it's sparkly

mine smells like citrus

her: haha

i had a brand, then they changed all their fragrances to sparkly packaging

now i'm a deodorant vagabond

me: yuck

ahah

no sparkles for me, but feta cheese side effects

her: ew

not what i would hope for my armpits

me: nope.

But I thought making products sparkly would show that they're for women! Can't we have more sparkly things so I know what to buy when I'm in the store? I guess I'm just going to have to rely on the pink products.

Needless to say, I've ended up with a lot of Pepto Bismal.

Pinkwashed: Ouija

AV Club: Girls Like to Look at Pink While Contacting the Dead, by Amelie Gillette

Thinking up questions about your own life to ask the dead is hard! Sometimes you're at a slumber party, and someone brings out a Ouija board, and the only question you can think of is "Slom?" which isn't even a word or anything, and would probably just make the princess ghosts who float around waiting for someone to use a pink Ouija very, very angry if you asked it. And you don't want to get those princess ghosts angry, because when they're angry they just go around and punch sleeping girls right in the fallopian tubes, which, everybody knows, is how you get your first period. Yuck.

For realz!!!! The whole article is hilarious. Check it out.