Tampon Run: One of The Best Computer Games Ever. Period.

Two New York City high school students are making waves this week as they launched their computer game Tampon Run online. Andrea Gonzales (16) and Sophie Houser (17) met this summer at a Girls Who Code programme, an organization that tries to close the gender gap in technology. The Tampon Run game was their final project for the programme and is the exact opposite of most computer games you knows – there are no bombs, monsters or guns. Instead, the heroine must go around the virtual world collecting tampons, which you then shoot at your enemies. The object is not to run out of tampons or it is game over. The girls created the game in an attempt to get rid of the stigma surrounding female menstruation. "Most women menstruate for a large portion of their lives. It is, by all means, normal,” the girls state on their website. "The taboo that surrounds it teaches women that a normal and natural bodily function is embarrassing and crude." So annoyed were the girls about the taboo surrounding periods, that in their game, tampons are used as a weapon rather than a gun. The game is an attempt to normalize the use of tampons, whereby women will not feel the need to hide one up their sleeve or tucked away out-of-sight on route to the bathroom. "Although the concept of the video game may be strange, it’s stranger that our society has accepted and normalized guns and violence through video games, yet we still find tampons and menstruation unspeakable," the girls added. Tampon Run is lighthearted fun that you can play here,  http://tamponrun.com/