If there mere mention of menstruation makes you want to scream and claw your eyes out, then you are just the audience for this delightful new shooter game designed by two brilliant teenagers from Girls Who Code, in which the object is to vanquish your foes by pelting them with tampons -- and also, to poke a few holes in the persisting stigma surrounding periods.

Before you freak out, no, the tampons aren't used. But they are great, as they sail out like tiny bitmap missiles and vanish along with their targets upon impact. The game, called "Tampon Run," has two objects: to tampon-bomb your enemies, and to collect enough tampons on the way so you never run out of ammo.

"Tampon Run" was the final project of Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser, who wanted to call attention to an odd double standard: that guns and graphic violence in video games are widely accepted and embraced, whereas the mere mention of menstruation gives people the heebie jeebies. The game is their way of addressing the taboo.

"Although the concept of the game may be strange," says the game's introductory screen, "it's stranger that our society has normalized guns and violence through video games, yet we still find tampons and menstruation unspeakable."

You'll probably never see "Tampon Run" installed alongside "Pac-Man" at a boardwalk arcade, but it's a smart little piece of social commentary... and not a bad way to have a tampon-chuckin' good time on your next work break.