Plan B
My winter-wear of choice for the past several months has been my Plan B Skateboards hoodie which, I’ve learned, suffers from an unfortunate layout. “Plan B” is in tall, thick letters across the chest and “Skateboards” is in a much smaller, barely readable font underneath. I learned a while back — a comment from a total stranger — that Plan B is also the brand name of a popular non-prescription emergency contraceptive; you know, the “morning-after pill.”
As a quick aside, I think Plan B is a funny name for a contraceptive pill, as if to imply that Plan A was pull out. “Whooooops! Plan B! Plan B!”
Anyway, only two people have asked about the sweater’s meaning, but I’ve been thinking: If two people actually brought it up with me, how many others just see it and think to themselves “Wow, look at this prick…”? Christ, I must look like the biggest fratboy dickhead on Earth. At first I was thinking I now have to watch for people’s reactions to my sweater and automatically respond “skateboards” so I don’t look like the type of guy that is such a huge fan of emergency contraceptive pills he would wear branded merchandise, when I realized that the type of girl that would know the morning-after pill by name probably isn’t my kinda girl anyway.
Or is she?
January 28th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
This begs for a lot of comments but I’ll keep it to three:
1) obviously the layout design was quite purposeful in hoping to draw attention because of people’s knowledge of the “other” Plan B.
2) there are reasons for the morning after pill besides using idiotic birth control or the woman just being a whore; condoms can break, women can realize, “dang, I forgot got my pills a couple days in a row, maybe just in case…”
3) when have you ever cared (in such situations) what others think? As Bette Midler once said “Joke ‘em if they can’t take a fuck.”
January 28th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
When have you ever cared what Bette Midler has ever said?
And Plan B Skateboards predates the pill by eight years.
January 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I love Bette Midler! Well, at least when she did her Divine Miss M stuff. And so much for my theory about the design being purposeful…..
January 28th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
the type of girl that knows plan b by name is definitely my type of girl. not only does she have a plan a (making sex), but she already has a plan b (plan b)!
she’s way ahead of you! and all you could think of was telling her that she should come over and listen to your new roberta flack cd.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
whats Plan B again??
oh well…