There’s so much vaginal disinformation going around the internet that it’s a great relief to see someone standing up for truth and rationality and rebutting the hell out of that bad info.
Thank you for your service, Michael Barrett.
H/T — r/BadWomensAnatomy
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I award Mr. Barrett one internet. Both for the SW joke, and for pointing out how all muscles work.
The type of guys he was replying to should get a choice, and both options involve Dr. Jen’s “The Vagina Bible”:
1) Read it and pass a quiz on the contents/write a paper about it.
2) Be beaten into submission with hardcover copies until they agree to 1).
HTH, boys.
Here I thought the cold hard truth was that it is neither cold nor hard, but now I know that the women who walk around beaches suspending surfboards from their vaginas are merely, as they say, “flexing”, showing off their lethal weapons.
Thank you for your cervix?
I’ll see myself out.
Wait I think I saw this on American Gods! Amazing what the vagina can do!
And now for certain details of the Hawai’ian version of the Maui myth that didn’t make it into Moana: https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/03-07-2018/maui-moana-and-hine-nui-te-po
@ Full Metal Ox
So, the ham fisted violation as depicted in the movie where Maui enters a “cave” with his “magic hook”, thus taking away a female character’s “heart” could have been even more interesting?
I’m not going to bash Moana per se, but I feel like it is essentially a rape story. To my mind, Maui, basically an insecure tattooed bro-dude who finds his sense of worth in being a big manly man who does great deeds, violates a woman, refuses to take any responsibility for it, whines like a MRA about how unfair the world is to poor little him, then tries to fix it with another application of violent “hooking.” In the end the only thing that helps is another female character who simply acknowledges pain and empathizes with the victim.
(At least, that is my interpretation, though as is not uncommon on this blog, I wouldn’t be surprised to be totally schooled on the matter.)
Bwahaha hahaha! Good one…
@Full Metal Ox: I hope I’m not the only one who always reads Vagina Dentata to the rythm of ‘Hakuna Matata’ (It’s a penis-free philosophy!).
This post has given me some much needed chuckles.
@Correction Automatique
… Take your internet and go.
@TheLurker
I’ve avoided watching the show (especially after hearing about some behind the scenes drama), but when I got to that part in the book years ago, I WTF’d pretty hard and stopped reading for a while because that level of weirdness was not something I expected. I can kinda laugh at it now, but it’s also pretty dumb.
@Battering Lamb
I think I saw a comment like that posted on a clip from Teeth once.
@Queen of the Harpies: that bit in American Gods was pretty unsettling, but the more you learn about different mythologies the weirder it generally gets. At least in the tv-show she was an equal opportunity people-devourer, I guess. 😛
@Battering Lamb
Oh, I’m used to weird mythology stories, but most of the stuff I read up until adulthood was obviously the more sanitized/censored versions, and even now I’m just barely finding out about more of the twisted tales.
So did she devour more than one person in the show, then? (And as an aside, I’m pretty sure Gaiman was either taking too much “artistic liberty” with the character or failed at his research, because she wasn’t originally a sex/fertility goddess to begin with, as I recall.)
@Battering Lamb
As a fan of the webcomic Queen of Wands, I can assure you that no, you’re not the only one who sings that.
@VP: Right! That was where I saw it too! Damn, that was long ago.
@Queen: Yeah, in the show there is a ‘devouring people’ montage at some point. Fair point about the not being a fertility-goddess bit. Unrelated (I’m thinking about it because it was described as Neil Gaiman-y), I’m currently reading The City We Became by NK Jemisin which I’m having a blast with. 6 people literally becoming the city of New York to combat some Eldritch something or other. That summary makes it sound sillier than it is (even if the idea is a bit silly), but it’s really interesting.
@Battering Lamb:
I’m currently reading The City We Became by NK Jemisin which I’m having a blast with. 6 people literally becoming the city of New York to combat some Eldritch something or other. That summary makes it sound sillier than it is (even if the idea is a bit silly), but it’s really interesting.
Part of the idea has precedent in John Shirley’s proto-cyberpunk novel City Come A-Walkin’, wherein cities begin developing Anthropomorphic Personifications(1)—but the decision, By Your Powers Combined, to become the incarnate city is a new one on me.
(1). Published in 1981, Shirley’s work considerably predates the manga and anime Axis Powers Hetalia, whose characters are Anthromorphic Personifications of countries.
@Battering Lamb
Yeah, it was. But we still have a limited edition print of the Charles Darwin transformation sequence. By your powers combined!
ETA: http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20050929.html for those who want to see the Charles Darwin strip.
One year for Mr. Parasol’s birthday, I ordered a kid’s toy chainsaw, attached a label proclaiming it to be the Chainsaw of Natural Selection. I racked up a number of Wife Points on that one.
So uh completely OT for this but I don’t know where else to put this
Is anyone else maybe a bit too disgusted by all the men on Twitter coming out to support Chris Rock, after he got smacked for making fun of Jada Pinkett Smith’s disability (and being sexist about it to boot)? Just… all these men expressing support for him, attacking Pinkett Smith for being polyam, attacking Will Smith for being okay with that and defending his wife in public. #IStandWithChrisRock is trending on Twitter and I feel like I’m going slightly mad.
IDK, whether or not you approve of actually hitting someone who insulted your spouse, it just grosses me out how so many men seem to think that literally just respecting your wife is for losers. Just… terminal MRA brain, to paraphrase an unrelated quote.
I’ve seen now a bunch of people making good points that Will Smith is emitting abuser flags, and that Jada’s feelings are paramount here, and… yeah. That’s true, and I should have recognized that first. IDK, maybe over three years of this stupid pandemic I’ve just lost a bunch of empathy or something, to the point that seeing any bigoted man actually get hit for his bigotry feels good. IDK.
@ Cyborgette
I feel like neither of them exactly covered themselves with glory. Rock made an offensive joke about someone’s looks, then Smith figured the obvious response was to get up on a public stage and hit someone for disrespecting his wife? I’m not seeing a good guy here.
For Chris, I have to assume he knew about Jada struggles with her hair, and he also has to know that black people’s hair can be a touchy subject for obvious reasons. For Will, it wasn’t a knee jerk, “everybody snaps sometimes” response, he had to consciously walk up on stage to go hit Chris, there was a short moment of time to hesitate and rethink things. I’d be more lenient if they were face to face and Will snapped when Chris was right there in front of him.
Of course, it is easy to Monday Morning Quarterback here, and I am no saint, so ultimately I kind of lean toward “OK, so that happened, back to all the wars on going right now.”
I don’t know much about the Oscars thing, just that if Will Smith has to hand in his Oscar I can think of a couple of others who should have theirs revoked/taken away. Your Roman Polanskis and Harvey Weinsteins.
Aside from that, yes, let’s focus on more inportant things than a slap at an increasingly irrelevant (hopefully) award event.
Aye. Sorry, all. IDK why this got to me so much, maybe it’s just a last straw of the day thing.
You know those couple a guys who were up to no good?
Well now I’m not so sure they were in fact the ones who started making trouble in the neighbourhood.
@ Cyborgette
Hey, can’t speak for anyone else, but you don’t need to say sorry to me. You saw something, it upset you, you called it out. I think it is a concern and a bad sign for our culture either way, and I wouldn’t be surprised if David features some “commentary” about it in the near future.
Basically, I wasn’t trying to belittle your concerns or anything by bringing up all the wars going on right now, just lamenting the general state of affairs in the world.
@Battering Lamb: No, you are not. I think that comment was first quipped about 5 minutes after “The Lion King” opened.
@Vicky P: Found on the shelf next to “Occam’s Chainsaw”?
Defending your wife (against an ableist “joke”) is great, but you do it privately out back rather than on live TV with your peers and the whole world watching in real time. Also, his speech made it all about him and not Jada, uggggh. If she’d gotten up and slapped Rock, that’d be different, but she’s smarter than that. Will’s gonna need extra time on the E-meter.
@GSS ex-noob
Eww, I didn’t see that context. In that case fuck him.
@Cyborgette: I didn’t mean to diminish how you felt about it, sorry if I did.