Not always individually, but man, we do some just bat shit crazy stuff as a group. Don’t believe me? Let’s talk tampons. Yep, those cotton things used to assist a woman when aunt flow shows up. It sounds like a fantastic Sunday morning topic for the breakfast table. Honey round up the kids, we are talking tampons.

Your kid should know what a tampon is, understand how it’s used, and honestly, it is not asinine for a boy to have a couple in his locker at school or in his car. You know, be that gallant guy who sees a young lady in distress and is prepared to say, here, if you need it. Not in a malicious way, but the “my parents didn’t raise an entitled little asshole” way. Why the hell are we not that way? I have a theory (if I didn’t, I wouldn’t write a sassy blog).

The most significant thing is that somehow, we all think we are on this rock to win. That’s right; we have to die with the mostest and the bestest. If we manage to have this during life, we are the snide and selfish to those around us when it comes to lending aid. Now before everyone starts yelling at me about being a socialist, I didn’t say leveling the economy or giving away your money to others, I mentioned being prepared to lend a hand when it is needed.

Shit people stop every day at an accident scene, open doors, provide directions…what the hell is wrong with knowing about a menstrual period and having the kindness to be able to lend that aid? Just a thought.  

However, in Tennessee, the parking lot at the backward thinking institute, we have lawmakers worried about a sales tax exemption meaning women will buy too many tampons. Oh lord, seriously? Do you know why I called us a stupid group? If someone were to say that, the group should say, “shut the fuck up, Carl. That makes about as much sense as living in Tennessee does. But no, there is a lot of head nodding and idiocy (because he is in your political party)— the article which comes from Forbes and can be found here. Just makes my head swim.

One of the state senators most concerned about the sales tax holiday? Dr. Joey Hensley (R-28).

According to the AP, Sen. Hensley said, while debating against the bill, “I would think since it’s a sales tax holiday, there’s no limit on the number of items anybody can purchase.” He added, “I don’t know how you would limit the number of items someone could purchase.”

Interestingly, this same concern does not seem to apply to most other items on the list of tax-exempt items during the sales tax holiday.

Ok, just fucking wow. 

Afraid of someone buying too many tampons?

My friend Candace, who for the most part is completely out of fucks to give on most subjects, had this to say;

Ohhh…

I say we double, hell triple! The tax on feminine hygiene products! Just call it “The Vagina Tax” – then let women exclusively decide how those taxpayer dollars get utilized!

In tandem, we tax the shit out of Erectile dysfunction drugs, and then old white men can decide how those tax dollars get used.

This way, women do with their bodies as they will, and a whole bunch of limp dick’d old men no longer will have to concern themselves about holding dominion over anyone’s reproductive organs but their own!

Well, put.

Look, they are as necessary in some usable form as toilet paper or similar items. They are for comfort, as well as being a sanitary means of containing the bleeding that occurs when the uterine wall sheds. I am going to have all of you know this if it takes me dragging you kicking and screaming to an enlightened state.

Well, now that is a sight. We are all in this together. Taking care of each other in this death struggle we call life is what being a human is all about.

Remember to be the kind of person your dog and your mom think you are.