Via a flyer in my refill package, my birth control pill company has been trying for 6 months now to get me to buy fashion-designed pill dispensers. The company touts this as a way women can be "discreet" about taking the Pill, because now if someone looks in your purse and sees the dispenser there, they'll think it's a compact rather than a pill container. First of all, who are all these women worried about having their purses rifled through? No one looks in my purse. I could keep a dead octopus in there, and no one would notice unless a tentacle was hanging out. Secondly, why are we suddenly being so Victorian about taking the Pill? God forbid someone in the general populice sees you taking it. They'll know! They'll know that you're having sex, and that you don't want to get knocked up! Just like everyone else! And lastly, why-god-why do we need Pill dispensers designed by Nicole Miller? Christ, what's next? Velour carrying bags for our diaphragms? Hip-hugger adult diapers?
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