So, I read pattern recognition by Gibson.

Cayce Powell puts in a tampon, then never takes it out. She spends what appears to be the following week drifting in and out of consciousness. I know the author is glossing over things, but our girl got kidnapped and knocked out by the Russian mob. How tf did she not come down with toxic shock syndrome?

If you're going to bother to write women, please stop making your action heroines kill themselves via lack of education about their own sex organs. This was stressing me out the whole book and it turns out the author just forgot that leaving a tampon in a vagina will kill someone.

/rant