Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Sorry, Mods, but I don't like this new picture/message/greeting. It's a bit of a downer image for those of us who are already feeling down because of our pain. I would much prefer a nice picture of . . . I dunno, a mountain lake with wildflowers growing along the shores? A pacific island beach? A rainbow? A cute smiling baby? Really, anything but an image of someone drowning in pain! Thank you.

Unfortunately I agree with lernica and had a similar reaction when I saw the new pictures.

Merrie

I just thought that the little stick man trivializes what is traumatic for most people. I also think drowning doesn't really correlate to the nature of chronic pain. I realize it was an attempt to make your life preserver logo fit in, but I never really liked that, either.

I don't see a stick man. What are we talking about?

If we're thinking of changing the life preserver symbol, I like sunshine coming through clouds.

Emily B.

Emily B wrote:

If we're thinking of changing the life preserver symbol, I like sunshine coming through clouds.

Emily B.

Yes! I love your picture, Emily! It's a wonderful uplifting image of hope, beauty and inspiration -- absolutely perfect! Mods, please reconsider!

I had to go and look, I had not seen this. I have the forum bookmarked and only go to the main part of the website when I need to look things up.

I think this image is very good. The point is that it links with our lifebuoy image - offering help, offering rescue - and it is very eye-catching. For someone who is feeling that way - and we all know about that - it would catch their attention and make them want to read more. Could be improved upon by making the little man look more as if he is in pain as well as drowning, I think! Even better would be an actual image of someone in trouble in the water, rather than a stick man.

The sun coming through clouds is a beautiful image and lovely to look at, but it doesn't link with our lifebuoy logo/symbol at all, and I think it is just dressing things up to look pretty and attractive. It certainly is not going to catch anybody's attention.

I think we should stay with the 'Drowning in Pain'.

(By the way I have heard life preservers mentioned before, we don't use that word and I had assumed it was a sort of lifejacket, I now know that it is what we call a lifebuoy here in the UK. Divided by a common language again! )

I don't like the stick figure, either. I do like the Life Preserver very much, though.

maybe the wave and the motto with life preserver instead of stick man? He looks kind of cheesy to me.

Don't think I'd dive in to save him. Sorry, stick man.

Oh....I see it now. It's on the home page. I always just follow my link directly to the forums. I think the drowning guy fits in well with the Hope life preserver.

Emily B.