WAIT, WAIT -- DON'T SAY IT!

This weekend, as usual, I listened to Wait, Wait -- Don't Tell Me!, a weekly quiz show on NPR where commentators and common folk dish on the week's news.  It's great fun.

This week, of course they had to mention Charles and Camilla.  The call-in guest and the host, Peter Sagal, were hot to talk about the lurid phone calls that first publicized their affair back in the days of Charles's first marriage.  As the conversation took that turn, the other panelists, Roxanne Roberts, Roy Blount, Jr., and Adam Felber, practically shouted them down.

WWDTM is NOT a show that strives for squeaky cleanliness or propriety.  But somehow, the prospect of hearing about Charles's tampon fantasy was too much for these urbane sophisticates.

I find this a bit silly.  Surely men have gotten past their medieval fears of menstruating women, right?  Clearly, Prince Charles has gotten over it.

So, I want to publicly announce that the LAmom blog is a space where the word tampon can be used freely.  OK?  Here I go: Tampon.  Tampon, tampon, tampon!

Here's a fun link: The Museum of Menstruation.

Comments

[Drina]

I think every guy can take a cue (modified, of course) from the Prince. I'll shout with you... TAMPON! TAMPON! TAMPON!