In the 1980s, a tampon manufacturer famously introduced an “improved” product designed to be more absorbent. Unfortunately, these new tampons proved to be the ideal breeding ground for Staph bacteria, resulting in an epidemic of toxic shock syndrome, which – you guessed it – can be fatal. Of course, all the major tampon companies responded by changing their products to be safer, and the TSS epidemic ended.
Oh, sorry, we were talking about Ideal World. Y’know, the place where human beings show each other empathy and people don’t die to save corporations a nickel. No, the overall composition of tampons hasn’t changed since the ‘80s – companies just slapped a warning label on their packages and called it a day. More baffling still, tampon companies are under no obligation from the FDA to list their ingredients, despite the potentially lethal consequences. That means that the average woman knows more about what’s in her made-in-China sweater from H&M than what’s in her vagina.
There is a bill that’s been floating around Congress – the Robin Danielson Act, introduced by Representative Carolyn Maloney – which would establish a research program with actual scientists studying the chemicals and materials in menstrual hygiene products. The only problem is that most members of Congress have never menstruated, and further, they have the imaginations of lobotomized goldfish, so they couldn’t give less of a fuck. Maloney’s bill has been killed at least nine times.
“The only problem is that most members of Congress have never menstruated, and further, they have the imaginations of lobotomized goldfish, so they couldn’t give less of a fuck.”
As tedious as it’s been having people call me “that Dipper-lookin’ kid” on every video I post for the past couple of years, I think I’d actually kinda regret it if I didn’t play along at least once. The original stone eye of providence has been trampled into the soil by hundreds of children, but the pentagram from last summer remains intact.
Also, I sat on a log and now my legs are covered in sap. Now I remember why I stopped wearing shorts.
wait, isnt that the pentagram from that video of the dude following the trail in the woods and heavily criticizing the stone pentagram?
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