Should All Public Bathrooms Offer Free Tampons to Women?  Free
tamponsFree tamponsNancy Kramer, the Columbus, Ohio, woman
behind the movement Free the Tampons, wants to see a world -
before she dies - where every women's bathroom in America is
stocked with free tampons and pads accessible to whoever needs
them. What drives her in this quest is a desire to prevent women
who get their periods unexpectedly from having to deal with the
embarrassment and humiliation of not having the supplies they
need. When I first looked at her Free the Tampons website and
watched her TEDx talk, I chuckled. Sure, free tampons and pads
in every bathroom would be nice, since no one likes to shove a
wad of toilet paper in their underwear and carry on until they
can buy supplies somewhere. But I kept worrying that her
argument about women not knowing when they might get their
periods might undermine her case. Since women don't know when
they might start bleeding and end up bleeding through their
clothes in their office chair (as a w