2004-05-15 - 12:32 a.m.
Headlines that caught my eye this week:
- "Summer is here! Please stay indoors."
- "In this issue: excimer laser for oral lichen, tacrolimus-induced rosaceiform dermatitis, and more!" (quite apart from the boggling thought of oral lichen, I like the 'and more!' - clearly this stuff is exciting to dermatologists.)
The mysterious sign that appeared in the women's bathroom this week:
"To the ladies: please do not deposit the objects in the toilet. There are cases for such objects. They cause of the blockage."
I've been noticing that advertising seems to be intent on inventing new aspects of our bodies to worry about. It isn't enough that we have to worry about foot odour, body odour, bad breath, stained teeth, greasy hair, dry hair, lank hair, frizzy hair, just plain bad hair, dandruff, uneven skin tone, dull complexions, wrinkles, acne, backne, having cellulite, being too big, and being too small. Now we're being urged to worry about whether our arm-pits are sufficiently moisturised, whether our toothpaste performs a sufficient number of functions, whether our calf-into-ankle transition is sufficiently defined rather than being the allegedly dreaded "cankles" (which is apparently an entirely different malady from having no ankles or thick ankles, which I was already worried about).
