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But nearly every woman I know has had a menstrual mishap, an accident at school or at work. Most of us have been stranded in public with no tampons or sanitary napkins. Some of us have even had the unfortunate experience of dropping our brimming Diva Cups, reusable silicone products used to collect menstrual blood. These accidents are unpleasant and inconvenient, but why can’t we simply accept them as we would, say, spilling coffee on our pants? Luckily, we’re seeing a lot of pushback — some of it in the public spotlight. On May 6, Larry Wilmore of Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show” hosted a panel in which he and his guests discussed menstruation in response to a Time op-ed that argued that Hillary Clinton is fit for the presidency because she’s postmenopausal and therefore stronger and more energetic. Wilmore rightfully mocked this notion of a woman’s menstrual cycle as a debilitating handicap. As one of the panel members, Nicole Wallace — a former communications director for George W. Bush — succinctly put it, “Yes, I worked in the White House. And yes, every 28 days I bled, but the country went on.”

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