Three British girls from Berkshire have fallen for a 4chan hoax after “free-bleeding” outside of Parliament on Friday to protest the so-called “tampon tax.” 22-year-old Charlie Edge and two friends wore white trousers, held signs of protest, and displayed visible blood stains on their crotches while free-bleeding after spending three hours protesting that female hygiene products are subject to VAT. The “tampon tax” has drawn the ire of feminists. What Edge and her fellow mischief-makers probably don’t know, however, is that “free-bleeding” is a hoax cooked up by users of image board 4chan in early 2014 to convince batty feminists that feminine hygiene products were a form of patriarchal oppression. The Tampon is a MALE invention designed to OPPRESS women into RAPING themselves and spending their hard-earned money. #freebleeding — Roaring_Womyn (@Roaring_Womyn) January 31, 2014 Stop OPPRESSION and SELF-RAPE.the tampon is nothing more than a PHALLUS that society FORCES us to PENETRATE our sacred vaginae. #feminism — Jessica Marquez (@dontjudgeme3333) January 31, 2014 Dozens of feminists – news outlets – fell for the joke, with one woman, Kiran Gandhi, even running the London marathon while free-bleeding. The trick played on far-Left feminist activists shows no signs of evaporating. In a post on her Facebook page, Edge wrote: