Aged like fine whine

 So this ad 

popped up in my social media feed and I'm thinking that the expectations of women (and/or the expectations we have of ourselves) are quite depressing and bizarre. 

There's no way you'd use "89% less pain" as a selling point to men. Surely it should be something like "makes sex enjoyable again"? But no, the best we can hope for is less pain.

Isn't pain your body's way of saying "stop, this is damaging me"? 

I'm sure many women want to continue to have sex-lives beyond menopause, and a good pelvic floor is a boon, but I'm really uncomfortable with this presentation of it.

 

In my lousy opinion

 It's all in the news about a dog being rescued with extra limbs and a charity successfully raising about £15K to have them amputated so the dog can have a normal life and be adopted eventually.

In all honesty, I think it's such a misdirected effort. There's no shortage of dogs in need of homes. Shit, there's no shortage of humans who are in dire need of medical help and charitable assistance. 

I suppose it gets them headlines and it gets them more income, so it works for the charity to do this, but good grief people don't have their priorities straight. 

To the Lake

I've been watching a Russian series on Netflix called To the Lake about an outbreak of a zombie-style disease. 

It was pretty gripping with a complicated soap-opera of relationships between the characters, who were all pretty flawed. They really went from crisis to crisis 'though and were frequently rescued by friendly strangers in the nick of time, which felt a bit contrived. I think the high point dramatically in the series was when the little boy goes missing, it had me binge-watching past midnight.

There were very cheesy moments (which I didn't actually mind), such as the young adults finding first love to the strains of "Teach me Tiger". It was quite amusing. There was more sex in the series than you might want. 

The final episode felt set to wrap things up satisfactorily, although [spoiler: it seemed unlikely to me that Polina's father would be cool with her relationship with Misha], but then of course another sudden disaster had to happen. 

If the next series comes to a streaming service I have, I'll watch it. 

I find I do better with watching subtitled series than I do with English-speaking ones these days, as I tend to drift off into scrolling the internet or gaming. Although, that said, I did watch TrueLove on the Channel 4 player*, which I really enjoyed. Also, The Traitors series 2 has no trouble keeping my attention.

*Channel 4, if you're reading 😆, your player is really shit - it has a nasty habit of buffering and pausing, spoiling programmes, while I have no issues with other services. Particularly in Taskmaster when they're showing pictures contestants have made and the like.