Girls don't poop (apparently)

For my blogpost, I would like to use this commercial I recently found on YouTube. It’s about a spray you should use before you go number two on the toilet – you spray it before you sit down, and it’s supposed to hide the smell. The commercial features a woman advertising the product – telling other women they should use this spray as well if they want to avoid embarrassing situations at, for example, work, a party or when they stay at their boyfriends’ house.

This commercial reminded me of the following quote from Berger’s article:

“She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others, and ultimately how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another.” (Berger, 46)

The title of the commercial clearly states ‘Girls don’t poop’ – indicating that girls should hide it because it’s not exactly considered feminine to do. She needs to be constantly aware of her surroundings and how she appears as to other people – and as Berger says, especially to men. The commercial also condones this by mentioning ladies can use it when staying over at their boyfriends’ house – instead of being able to do what every human has to, they have to cover it up to make sure they don’t appear bad in the eyes of their significant other.