tampon fights under a doomsday sunset

"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity." ~ Albert Camus

There's a cool new game all the hip kids are playing called Tampon Run. It's an interesting side-scroller flash game developed by two young ladies, "Andy and Sophie" that are straight outta high school in New York City. The game was developed as part of the "Girls Who Code" program which gets young women interested in the computer sciences so that they can hopefully grow up and get real paid.*

Tampon Run centers around a female hero (simply minding her own business) trying to walk her 8-bit ass down the sidewalk when suddenly she's accosted by men wearing pink hats that like to moonwalk. The only defense our intrepid heroine has in her repertoire is the ability to jump over her attackers or to fire tampons at them.** Pressing the up arrow on your keyboard will allow your character to jump and the space bar fires off a round of tampon at the ne'erdowells with the pink hats and alien legs. You die when your tampon supply reaches zero, obviously, and in this way the game accurately reflects real life.

There's a bigger metaphor here as well since this little flash game mirrors the problems women face in society at large with the unending supply of baddies that ceaselessly attack our heroine. She was just trying to use the public sidewalk, even though it seems like a questionable decision to go out at night (when the sky is red) and the sidewalks are crawling with identically clad aggresive looking men. However, that is exactly the point. Why should women have to carry extra tampons around with them when they just wanted to go for a walk under the apocalyptic sky? Women have just as much right to sidewalk use (even during a doomsday sunset) without being constantly subjected to the men of the world (8-bit or not) hassling them. They shouldn't need to buy tampons in bulk, men ought to respect them enough as human beings to not objectify them and force them to defend themselves with feminine products.

*As opposed to a liberal arts degree where there is no "getting real paid" going on whatsoever.

**Unsure if there are extra feminine products that can be unlocked at higher levels as this game is totally innapropriate to play at work so I had to Start Button+D a few times when prying eyes demanded to know what I was grinning about so hard.