fourworlds

Pristiq Ala Porcelain. This isn’t a staged shot. Of course, the brochure obviously didn’t fly itself from a doctor’s office to the medical building men’s room.  I don’t know whether the person who created this tableau had set the scene for their own photo or just as a spontaneous artistic statement on drug advertising. In any case, I was grateful for gift.

I’m pretty sure that the people who create and approve advertising for anti-depressants are on serious drugs themselves. That’s the only way I can explain the utter creepiness of the cover image. I almost started spontaneously hallucinating just from glimpsing the utter surrealism of the sad wind-up doll with the glowing purple blouse.

The television commercial is even worse. Who in their right mind would ingest a drug that had to use half of a sixty second spot to rattle off disclaimers about deadly side-effects? Oh. Right.

Girl’s Life? My eleven-year-old daughter noticed these not-too-progressive headlines on a magazine being offered in her school’s fundraising subscription drive. Although “Looking Pretty” and worrying about being “Too Demanding” are important questions for Middle School girls, I’m very happy they are also covering “Studying Less” and “Getting Your Best Body.”