Merry Christmas, I Got You an Invasive Medical Exam!
Here I am, wrapped in a Snuggie because my heat is apparently broken, innocently watching “60 Minutes” because I was interested in the segment on famous shipwrecks (hey, I’ve been a Titanic junkie since I spent all of 1998 swooning over Leo with the rest of the 18 year olds) (okay, 14 year olds), and suddenly, I see this:
Transcript becuase the embed video apparently isn’t working (emphasis mine): “Want to do something special for your woman this Christmas? Call her doctor and schedule her pap smear. Pap smears save lives. This Christmas impress her–give her the gift that even Santa can’t deliver.” (Background: “Ho, ho, ho!”)
YIKES. I honestly rewound three times and watched it over and over, waiting for Kristen Wig to come into the frame and prove that this was some sort of SNL promo bonus skit….on CBS. YIKES. Even worse? At the next commercial break, I saw this:
Transcript (emphasis mine): “Want to do something special for your woman this Hannukah? Schedule her pap smear! Just a “schmear” could save her life. Light up her menorah with the gift that says, ‘you look great, but it’s what’s inside that counts!’”
I’m sorry…did they really just compare a vaginal exam to…cream cheese?
Why yes, as a matter of fact they did.
Quick poll: What’s the worse holiday gift, a pap smear or the dog Snuggie? (h/t Momsey)
That is disturbing on many levels.
Women’s health seems to be the new Green. Everyone wants to promote how conscious and involved they are with promoting women’s health. It looks like CBS was trying to find an unexplored angle.
It’s definitely one of those things where I agree with the principle (Men should support the significant women in their lives maintain their health) but the execution really fell flat.
Exactly. It’s nice in theory, I agree that especially married couples should be frank about this sort of thing. But “call ‘your woman’s’ doctor and schedule her a pap!” is just….so, so, wrong.
SO wrong! Especially the “jewish” one.
You can’t possibly expect your woman to know how to schedule her appointment on her own, can you? Thanks CBS! Of course, I’m single, so I’ll just have to die of cervical cancer. Sigh.