not peeing everywhere: now manly
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posted by catherine / August 14, 2006 / 
tommy and i have long made fun of that flomax ad, which ends with two older gentlemen toasting enormous bottles of water in the backseat of a car. because, see, they don't have to pee every two seconds now. and they can drink all the water. but i never paid attention to the copy of the ad until today, when i heard the voiceover say, "here's...TO MEN. here's to taking longer car rides with fewer pit stops."
it was just weird. why this emphasis on masculinity? i have never associated bladder control with manliness before, but perhaps that will have to change.
UPDATE: it seems especially weird as, upon seeing the commercial again, i caught that side effects include "a decrease in semen." that's not very manly.
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I think it's because flomax works on the prostate: man's cancerous friend. Old lady incontinence is related to muscle weakness, I think. Old man incontinence is (at least sometimes) due to this gland swelling up (prior to killing you). Flomax is probably one of the DHT blockers that make it shrink back down -- the same class of drugs that prevent hair loss. And yes, those are supposed to cause a decrease in semen, too.
See? You girls aren't the only ones with a mysterious and terrifying biology (although you're definitely in the lead).
Those ads have a peculiar quality of mature hale-and-heartiness that seems so over-the-top I feel like if present I'd jump out of the car/boat. One of the ED adds, though, not C/al/s, which is the best of the real drug adds --the current V/agr/, with the vcr programming joke, is disgusting-- has a very comely mature wife lying happily in bed talking to the camera "His birth certificate says he's 45, but I think he's ..." I like that one.
I just saw this ad, and dude, I was *taking* this stuff a few weeks ago. Made me feel like utter crap (cf. the warnings about dizziness). I can't speak to the semen issue, but I hope they don't mean: FOREVER.
oh man, now i feel bad for making fun of a drug that helped you, ogged. but i am sure you remain as manly and virile as ever.
No no, it didn't help at all. The doctors were saying, "Gee, we don't know why you feel so dizzy. Maybe you should stop the Flomax for a while." Shazam! Goodbye dizziness.
oh! well, good. now i continue down my path of flomax hatred.
btw, flomax sounds like something related to menstruation. another minus on the manly side.
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