Friday, August 30, 2019

A Plus Iron's Gotta Do

I bought some generic multivitamins a few months ago. The metabolic differences between the sexes are minor enough as eukaryotes go. Men burn through more iron, women eliminate more calcium, and that's pretty much the one consistent divergence accounted for by our respective multivitamins. So there on the pharmacy shelf sat the usual rows of "men's" and "women's" vitamins. Except for one company progressive enough to rebrand the more offensive of the two. It sold "Women's" vitamins on one hand and vitamins "Plus Iron" on the other.

Well, I'm sure I could complain ... mansplain ... plusironsplain at some length about the mere mention of the word "men" being treated as an unspeakable slur, but I wouldn't want to be a total jew about it, ain't dat right mah niggas?

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