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I Love Birth Control Commercials

Some people don't like commercials.

Those people have clearly never seen the Yaz commercial.

Every time it comes on, I get more excited than if it were an actual television show.

Let's face it, what's funnier than a "This Birth Control Might Kill You and We Lied to You About It And Now the F.D.A. is Making Us Tell the Truth" commercial SET IN A LOUNGE!

Shouldn't this commercial take place in a doctor's office? Shouldn't a doctor or a nurse be talking to you about it?

Instead, they found someone who looks like they lost a role on "One Tree Hill" and they conduct the entire thing in the tackiest hook-up bar I have ever seen in my life.

Would this work if it were two friends?

"Hey, sorry I lied to you, but now that everything's out in the open, wanna go sit on a leopard-print sofa and talk to a yoga instructor?"

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Almost as brilliant as the new ad that says "Who says you have to have your period 12 times a year?"

Um, God.

Then they say--"It's possible for you to only get a period every three months. You might see spotting or flow between those three months."

Now, I'm no expect, obviously, but isn't "spotting" and "flow" the same thing as getting your period? Have the rules changed since my 7th grade Health class?

I admit, I wasn't listening too closely. I was too busy drawing pictures of Rupert Everett in my notebook.

The Emmys were on last night, and these commercials didn't win anything.

Grave injustice? I think so.

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