Tampon Tax update
Do you guys remember when I was a plaintiff in a New York State lawsuit against the tampon tax? My blog was entitled,
Holy shit I look amazing holding tampons
After that I even designed and knitted a hat to go along with the theme:
Well my best friend Laura Strausfeld is the genius behind all of this (all of it! She’s a freaking GENIUS!) and now she has an op-ed on the front page of the Washington Post talking about how amazingly successful she’s been doing this good work:
Goodbye, tampon tax. Hello, MDCDs.
It’s a hilarious description (“womansplaining”) of why a ridiculous term, namely “menstrual discharge collection device,” or MDCD, was coined for one purpose: to get men in power to understand that tampons and other menstrual products are things that prevent women from bleeding all over subway cars. They somehow didn’t get that until the name was changed! No kidding!
Great news, largely due to Laura the momentum on the end of tampon taxes nationwide is picking up. Texas just got rid of theirs, and that bodes very well.
Laura is my hero!!
mathbabe 
Well I have to agree that y’all look amazing in the linked photo. Tampons and Pads have been 0 rated for VAT (sales tax) in the UK for some time now, but has just been extended to cover ‘period pants’: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vat-on-period-pants-scrapped
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Many if not all of the younger combat vets who fought in the Sand Box, that I know through my VA, PTSD support groups, carried tampons with them in combat because they are also great to slow up and stop the bleeding from wounds, saving lives.
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