I was combing through aggregate sites for the usual news of the impending apocalypse — you know, war, famine, death and disease — when I came across: “A proposal to include feminine hygiene products during Tennessee's annual sales-tax holiday faced resistance Tuesday from lawmakers concerned about the lack of limit on such purchases.”
Legislators in an American state do not want to give a tax break to tampons and pads and other menstrual products because they fear that women might buy too many of them. And just like that, the laughter came. Can you imagine the curse of vile females falling prey to their greed and addiction, hoarding tampons like cigarettes and illicit drugs to overdose on and sell on the black market? Because clearly that’s what we would do with a basic human necessity unless someone wiser and preferably not in possession of a uterus was kind enough to protect us from our weak selves?
