Today, some vaginal wisdom from dudes who do not have vaginas of their own, which might have helped with the fact-checking.
Holes Big Enough to Trap 50 Pinoy Miners:
At Least He’s Asking Questions:
As it turns out, men are confused about more than just the vagina:
H/T — r/NotHowGirlsWork, r/BadWomensAnatomy and r/JustNeckbeardThings
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Men from patrilineal* cultures often prefer virgin brides because in the days before DNA testing that was the only way to be absolutely 100% sure that any resultant kids are theirs. Men from matrilineal cultures or those with other types of family/property arrangements commonly prefer brides who not only aren’t virgins but have already had a kid or two, because in a low tech society fertility is a huge fucking deal.
*Determining inheritance, family, etc. based on who your father is
I don’t think the molding part is how vaginas work OP.
Why would you pick a pencil up with your vagina? Using your feet would be easier, nevermind you know, your hands.
Also I don’t think he means “vaginal discharge” unless the woman has an infection, and how is it that he knows about this anyway? Does he watch a lot of woman masturbating?
You know, there is this newfangled thing called the internet. Which you are currently using? Also there are things called “search engines”. Which you can use to search for information. Any information. If it exists, a search engine can probably find it. Granted you might go down a false path or two if you have no idea what the proper terminology is. But if you’re going to discuss things, it’s worth knowing what you’re actually talking about.
I mean, it’s not even “I’m not going to look up what my enemies claim to believe because they lie anyway”. This is just anatomy, not ideology.
“through her cervix” GBH GBH GBH and potentially manslaughter* nobody ever ever ever let this person anywhere near any part of them ‘scuse me brb just going to go outside and scream for a bit
*like this person can be relied upon to have heard of the germ theory of disease or the concept of washing one’s hands
@opposablethumbs
You beat me to it. Plus things like “your finger may not be long enough to reach the cervix” and “a nulliparous cervix is longer than you think.” Also some rather vivid memories of Pap smears and how painful even a single-toothed tenaculum can be to dilate the cervix.
I’ll just stick this here. I don’t know if anyone has read Jon Ronson’s book; but what’s bizarre about this is that the Fort Bragg demo really happened.
For any passing readers who are curious for some accurate information about anatomy, how people have sex, how relationships can be good – scarleteen.com will answer your questions.
Meanwhile, I’m reading that last tweet and literally wondering if these guys have ever looked in a real mirror and saw how hair works. How can someone reach adulthood and not learn hair can be parted any which way a person wants, anytime they want? Or is that another thing only men can do; women hair being some sort of hair-shaped plastic head covering that never changes or something. Or maybe women have Samson the hairlike Parasite from Skullgirls as their hair instead.
Or maybe the guy who originally tweeted that was joking around because otherwise that is taking ignorance of female bodies to another level there if serious. O.o
Recent conversation in the Parasol house:
Me (approaches Mr. Parasol with That Look on her face): I’ve got an intelligence test for you. Do you think you could stick your finger through my cervix?
Mr. Parasol (appalled look on his face): No.
Me: Congratulations. You passed with flying colors.
@Dalillama
Oh, interesting if true. I wonder if that’s part of why Jewish ideals of femininity are so different from (white) Christian ones IME. I’ve always felt like the Jewish culture I grew up with heavily emphasized the Mother archetype rather than the Maiden, so to speak. I wouldn’t call it healthier by any means, but it’s certainly different, and tends to confuse some of my Christian friends.
I think this guy is a time traveller from the 1960s. ‘Cos this reminded me about the time a bloke I only knew vaguely conveyed some interesting information he thought I – and the rest of the world presumably – should stop and consider.
He’d heard from a “reliable” source that Eastern women – I’m thinking Japanese (can’t remember exactly, it was 60 years ago) – had vaginas that ran east to west rather than the normal north to south of white women.
But he was 14 yrs old and had never done any biology/ anatomy. Of course back then we didn’t have any sex ed either, so heaven alone knows how/when/whether he eventually discovered the amazing truth.
None of these people make sense with regard to women’s bodies or actual relationships.. I think they would be flattered if any woman liked them, virgin or not.
Off topic, I have a number of family members who all married single moms with kids, .and they are all still married and happy for the most part. Now, all relationships have issues, but I have never once heard a complaint about their ladies’ lady parts.
These misogynist OPs don’t know what they’re talking about
Tell us you’re all virgins without telling us you’re all virgins.
Also, why specifically Pinoy miners? Miners come in all national/ethnic types
I keep loving how much these guys get so bothered by the slightest indication that life isn’t about them and any idea that they should take personal responsibility. You keep on complaining about women’s genitalia in a way that indicates that you suck at pleasing women, an inference further supported by you clearly being a selfish, clueless asshole? Make excuses! Women you know keep on going to the doctor? Well, fuck them, there’s no valid medical reason for them to go!
@Parasol: Mr. Parasol is a braver man than I. The moment I read that I started going into cycles of extreme wincing. The thought of a finger through the cervix made my brain fucking hurt. It’s like thinking about those copper catheters.
I tried to envision picking up a pencil with my vagina, but got distracted because I couldn’t get past thinking about how much my knees and/or hips would complain if I attempted to put my vulva against the floor.
You know, when talking about strictly the ignorance of these guys, I kind of have to point a bigger finger at the excuses for anatomy in most cultures. I was in my thirties before learning how to pronounce “Labia” properly. To misunderstand or forget the location of the cervix isn’t much of stretch from there.
What I am saying is we tend to avoid the clinical terms and have a lot of vague slang like “pussy” that serves as a catch all term for basically everything going on from the vagina on down.
I guess I feel it is a little unfair to completely blame various people for misusing terms when they may have had next to no education on the terms. (And before anyone raises the point, why would they Google a term if they thought they were using it correctly? They don’t do that with any other term they misuse, and nobody except the Grammar Nazis and English Majors object to most of that.)
I do however, understand that this doesn’t forgive blatantly misogynist behavor. Just feeling a little forgiving on the whole cervix thing that keeps popping up. Seems somewhere the term came into use wrong and is now in circulation being used like “pussy”. I dunno. Maybe I should shut up. I’m running on less than four hours sleep right now.
@.45: The problem is the arrogance, even for the clueless people. When you realize you’re talking about an organ you either don’t have and/or don’t know much about, you don’t talk about what you can do with it, how you can soothe pain associated with it, etc.
The ‘pencil-test’ dude seemed to be using ‘lol’ the way people who write [King James ]Bible-style ‘prophecy’ use ‘Lo!’.
Hey, I’m told it’s a very useful skill if you need to smuggle a pencil into prison.
Obviously the next trick after you’ve mastered the pencil thing is to sign your name with it.
Pencils aren’t that big around, so I suppose a sufficiently-motivated virgin could train her bits to pick one up. She’d still need incredibly flexible hips and knees, as @Brassica pointed out.