Tampons

I had a dream last night that I was trying to hang all groovy with a few twenty-somethings at something.

I mentioned the word tampon, in passing, and the kids asked me, “How old are you? No one says tampon any more.”

There was this incredulity. All I could respond with was, “So I guess you don’t dye your hair, either? You color it?”

They mentioned something about tampons being referred to as string wax. They did not want anyone to be talking about absorbency. They did not want anything to be natural or physical. It offended them that I suggested a word that implied differentiation, that it was somehow uncool to talk about a product that one sex needs that the other one does not.

I just had to leave.