Feminine Daintiness

Early Lysol ads

Ah, go on.

Admit it.  Wouldn’t you love to go back to the time when America was great?

The post-war golden age?

Sunday School.  Davy Crockett hats.  Coleslaw and “Gee whiz!”.

When men were men, and women were women?

And the men in charge were so generous with their advice and “firm guidance”?

There was once a perfect and magical duopoly of patriarchy and capitalism.

Where wives fretted, and their husbands – with the help of the chemical and marketing industries – made everything better.

Before 1952, a toxic and carcinogenic petroleum industry chemical similar to carbolic acid known as “cresol” (3-methyl phenol) was sold in liquid solution and aggressively marketed to women under the brand name “Lysol” as a way to cleanse supposedly “unpleasant” vaginal smells.

In a time before The Pill and other safer or more reliable contraceptives, many women in fact turned to such aggressive and dangerous chemical douches as spermicides or abortifacients, even though the efficacy of such “treatments” was poor.

It’s all coming back, you know.

J. D. Vance and Project 2025 know what’s good for society.

They especially know what’s good for women.