dear Dove chocolate

While I appreciate your little dark chocolate squares, and I think a couple of them just stopped a serious coughing fit, do you *really* need to include platitudes on the wrappers? And not just platitudes, offensively female-stereotyping childish and infantilizing platitudes?

Samples:
Age is nothing but a number.
When two hearts race, both win.
Make "someday" today.
Don't think about it so much.
It's definitely a bubble-bath day.
Sing along with the elevator music.

Can you all suggest what you'd rather see written in the Dove wrappers? Maybe something like: "This day is sucking. Thank god for this little chocolate square that helping to keep me from killing someone."

also, sigh

I am helping out on a field trip for Casper's school next week. The woman who is organizing it, one of the parents, sent out the email asking for volunteers to the list for the class - which is both parents of every single kid. Note that this is a full-time, pricey day care, so in the vast majority of families both parents work full-time.

All of the (7) volunteers are mothers, except for the Looniversity VP of HR, who apparently is the grandfather of one of the kids in the class. (Which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish, as my parents' advocacy group sent him a letter that seems to have gone off like a bomb over there in the admin building...)

But, NO dads? I was going to make mr. flea volunteer, but he's flying to Tampa that day.

Sigh.