A Whole New Realm of Tacky

[MissBrit]

I have a friend who when she got her first serious boyfriend at 23, decided that she should go on The Pill. That was fine and great, I was glad that she was protecting herself but she just wouldn't let it go. We both were volunteers at a local live theater and she would bring her pills to the theater so everyone would see that she is taking them. She would bring her little case in and set it on the edge of the souvineer stand and if someone mentioned that she was eating, she would say something about how she had to eat something before she could take her pill. She said that she brought them to the theater because her doctor said the were more effective when taken at night. Apparently the thought hadn't dawned on her that she could take them at home before she went to bed. She would bring them to friend's houses, a play we went to and she took one during the play like it was popcorn, and she even had her boyfriend get them out of the bathroom at her birthday party and bring them out so that she could take one in front of everyone! I tried talking to her about it but she didn't seem to get it. Since they broke up, she hasn't done it as much, but at our Christmas party in the middle of dinner she said, "*gasp* Oh, shoot, I forgot something." When another friend asked what, you guessed it, she said her pill. 

[Rose2Bear]

Well, it's pretty obvious she thinks it is "cool" and makes her look "sophisticated" and "mature."  If only she knew it made her look the opposite of all three.

[EvilAlice]

She needs a variation of the speech that some coach gave his football players regarding end zone dances.
"If you really want to look cool, act like you've actually been in the end zone before."  (not that having sex just like 98% of other 23 year olds makes her cool, just going with her perspective here.)

Remember when we were all getting our first bras, and the boys were just learning to snap them?  This is the same girl that, instead of being annoyed or embarrassed, would be secretly gleeful and screech "He snapped my BRA!" over and over till everyone heard her and duly noted that she was wearing a bra.

[Lunadiana75]

Oh.My.Goodness. 

It's one thing to wear a smug little smile when you're picking up condoms, it's quite another to make sure everyone and their brother knows you're on birth control.  Perhaps you should tell her that women with hormonal imbalances also take the pill, and people probably assume it's for that

[sammycat]

With this attitude is she really mature enough to have a relationship?

[freakyfemme]

Oh, eww.  I'm 22 (23 in June), and I'm still a virgin, but when my time comes, I'm going to keep it as private as possible.....just like I did with all the other, uh, milestones of womanhood that I've already experienced.

[Gileswench]

Words. Fail. Me.

[Lizmo]

  I didn't realize the pill was so cool, or I'd have advertised it, too.  However, the new pill my doctor was trying to get me to take comes in a handbag.  Your friend needs one of those, she can carry around her pill purse all the time and be SUPER cool.  (It truly is the size of a purse.  I quickly shoved it in the bottom bathroom drawer. )

[aj_prettiful]

I was in a very similar experience my Freshman year of college.  I had a friend who started on The Pill for other reasons (lets just say she's very likely infertile, with or without the pills).  As a matter of fact, she's against sex before marriage.  First, she acted like getting the exam was traumatizing.  And, while I admit it's not enjoyable by any means, she would change the story every time she told it to make it sound worse and worse.  By the end, the male doctor was being accused of stuff.  I was having the same exam a matter of three weeks later, she knew it, I asked her to stop trying to scare everyone, but eventually I had to just leave the room until she got the hint.  Then, once she got The Pill she managed to bring it into every single conversation.  And when I say EVERY SINGLE, I mean it.  It was as if she treated it as if she belonged to some exclusive club where all the cool kids belong because "that's what grown women do".  She walked into the room of another of our friends and said, "Yeah, so I started The Pill," as an introduction (as in, she walked in and said that).  Her roommate said, "Yeah, so am I?"  Seeing another person who could be in her little club, she asked why (like it's any of her business).  The roommate replied, "Because my boyfriend and I have sex."  That shut her up real fast.  It was so annoying and not what I needed to hear at the time.

[Clara Bow]

I started on the pill at seventeen and I told my best girlfriend, as she and I went to the clinic together. But that was it. I kept them in my purse and took them in the bathroom alone. It never occured to me to advertise. I've known people who were like that that. The best way to shut them up is to say "The people who do it the most talk about it the least."

[FoxPaws]

Well I hope for your sake, and that of anyone else that has to be in her vicinity, that she continues to take them. Because if she's this needy when she's trying to prevent conception, I can only imagine what she'll be like if she becomes pregnant.

Can you spell d-r-a-m-a q-u-e-e-n?

[IndianInlaw]

ask her if she worries about blood clots.

That'll teach her.

[Clio]

ask her if she worries about blood clots.

That'll teach her.

HA HA!  BURN!!!


So this is a bit off topic, but it reminded me of a similar story.  Last semester I was taking this class that had undergrads and grad students.  One day, the class topic was overpopulation.  The professor was telling us about how some medical professionals were promoting this particular type of contraceptive (I think it was IUD, but I'm not sure), even though it did come with some unpleasant side effects.  One of the undergrads asked her a question, and then felt the need to announce to the entire class that she was on this particular type of BC.  Silence ensued.  I was mortified!  (I'm sure many others were too!)  I was so shocked/disgusted/amused that when I returned to my room that night, I told my roommate what happened.  Her reaction was similar to mine, and for the rest of the semester, we refered to that class as the "birth control class."   

[Lauren]

I was put on the Pill at 18 for medical reasons and told a couple of friends (by virtue of being the first) but that was it. We might discuss things the first time it happens (I look back now and think msging them I had a *ahem* private wax was completly tacky and chalk it up to age) but never OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

[buckeyefan]

The next time she leaves her BC pills in plain sight, tell her, "Unless these are for asthma attacks or epilepsy, you need to put them away."