Have you ever gone to the store in search of tampons and end up on a wild hunt for the ever elusive period aisle? If you’ve ever bought menstrual products, the answer is most likely yes. One Arkansas teen found herself in the same predicament when a trip to grab tampons turned into a hilarious realization about just how real period shame is. 
 
 According to Refinery 29 , Belinda Hankins sent her 13-year-old daughter to the store for some period products. When her daughter got there, she couldn’t find tampons for a solid seven minutes, texting Belinda in disbelief that the store clearly did not carry pads or tampons. Belinda urged her daughter to keep looking and she finally found those tricky little tampons tucked away in the corner. Here’s the entire exchange, which Belinda posted to Facebook . 
 
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 Ok, now that we’ve stopped laughing, we can explain exactly why this exchange is so amazing. Not only do Belinda and her daughter talk freely about sex and reproductive health ( lube, anyone? ), but clearly Belinda is teaching her daughter some top notch feminist theory. Period shame is absolutely real and it’s lead to people being embarrassed about menstruation. People go to great lengths to hide their tampons , stuffing them up sleeves as they scurry to the bathrooms, or sneaking them to friends in the most secret ways. It’s also why there isn’t a “big sign reading ‘SUPER PERIOD CENTER’” in the store. 
 
 If joint braces get their own label, periods should too because there are likely more people menstruating than needing extra joint support. The reality is that both are necessary medical products . 
 
 This girl’s tirade about men being afraid to talk about vaginas is also hilarious — sometimes it really does seem like guys are afraid of those estrogen beams Belinda’s daughter mentions. (Though, of course, there are plenty of men who are comfortable with talking about issues essential to women and the LGBTQ community.) 
 
 Belinda’s is a household that eats the patriarchy for breakfast and that’s so bad ass. This whole exchange does leave us with one burning question, though. What is the vaj mobile and where do we get one? 

 By now you've probably read those viral texts exchanged between a mother and her daughter while in pursuit of tampons. (And if you haven't, you won't want to miss out on the drama of the ages.) Understandably, the story has now been shared everywhere, and the original Facebook post has received more than 60,000 shares — something that has the mom pretty surprised.In a new Facebook post , Belinda Hankins, who originally shared the exchange between herself and her daughter, took some time to clear the air about the true story of their drugstore saga."I am going to address this one time and be done with responding — this wild ride that has been the accidental creation of a 'viral' internet thing," Hankins wrote, going on to explain that she didn't intend for the texts to sweep the internet like they did. "I posted screenshots of a text exchange between myself and my daughter, AS I HAVE BEEN DOING FOR YEARS, because I thought it was funny."Apparently, some people didn't just laugh at the hilarious texts, though; they took the time to criticize Hankins' parenting, because she let her daughter go into the store by herself. So Hankins goes on to address those critics."The idea that she is incapable of walking into a store, buying a thing, and walking back out to where I am parked 10 feet from the entrance is just... I don't even know what that is," Hankins wrote, making clear that she had only waited in the car because their trip to the store was meant to be short.Lastly, Hankins addressed the numerous "trolls" who "come along and try to steal our sunshine," opting to be the bigger person."I won’t be a troll. Y’all don’t be trolls, either, okay? The world very obviously does not need even one more."We couldn't have said it better ourselves. You can read Hankins' whole post, below.
– People are singing the praises of an Arkansas mother and daughter who turned a trip to Walmart to buy tampons into an opportunity to "destroy menstruation stigma"—as per Teen Vogue—and—as Mashable puts it—"rip into the patriarchy." Us Weekly reports Belinda Hankins sent her 13-year-old daughter Isabella into Walmart around 12:30am last Sunday while she waited in the car. What was supposed to be a quick trip turned into something much different. "THEYRE NOT HERRREEEEEE," Isabella texted her mom. After a lengthy hunt during which Hankins instructed Isabella to look near the "sex lube," Isabella found them "tucked away in a corner unlabelled." Time for a life lesson. "They labelled the tiny shelf of joint braces but not the massive aisle of stuff for your vagina?" Isabella texted. Her mom replied that they never do because "vaginas are SECRET" and "society is controlled by men, and they fear us because we are powerful." The rest of their conversation includes thoughts on why men are afraid of vaginas, a map to Walmart's "vagina zone," a reference to the the "vaj mobile," and a reminder to "SMASH THE PATRIARCHY." Hankins posted the whole conversation to her Facebook page, and it quickly went viral. While Refinery 29 reports Hankins' parenting has been questioned by trolls, Teen Vogue thanks the mother-daughter duo for being open about reproductive health and sharing some "top notch feminist theory." (After an Olympic loss, this swimmer dared mention her period.)