But he didn’t just come in and say that he calls it a vagina, he stated “The correct word is vagina” and argued that those women who called it a vulva were objectively wrong. So even if both terms are interchangeable, he is still wrong.
Hm. *Significantly *worse, huh? I recognize your name, and I know you employ only the most rigorous approach to these kinds of politically charged subjects. Do you have anything that would substantiate that significant difference in suffering? Suffering can be hard to quantify.
What about getting murdered? How bad is getting killed, suffering wise? In 2017 in the US, 549 wives were killed, and 110 husbands. 488 girlfriends were murdered and 181 boyfriends. In2016,
OK, maybe not death, but what about physical injury? That’s suffering, too.
Not all suffering is physical, though. What if we had some kind of comprehensive measure of the experience of abuse that quantified other forms of harm?
A fair observer might point out that it’s not surprising that something called the “Women’s experience…” scale would end up with higher scores from women. I leave it as an exercise for the reader whether or not to also note anything else about the fact that the rating scale for how shitty it is to be abused is called that in the first place.
Man corrects women, telling us that in reference to our own external genitalia, “vagina is right” (and therefore, apparently vulva is wrong), tells us that common usage is vagina, even though the women in the article in fact used the word vulva, hence earning his “correction” and addressed a female doctor as “chick.”
Totally not mansplaining. I’m glad that was explained to me.
When it stops being the case that men who are being abused by their wives are the ones being arrested, when they stop being at best ignored and at worst laughed at by the police when they report it, and when there exist shelters for battered men at even a tenth of the level of ones for women, I’ll be interested in arguing further about the incomplete statistics you’ve based your arguments on.
In short, though, many injuries and deaths inflicted by women on men are not recorded as such. The situation overall is still better than it was only a few decades ago, when most domestic violence was ignored regardless of who the perpetrator was, so that’s something at least.
I will add that this is one of the relatively few ways that men are worse off than women in society these days, and the balance still greatly favours men - but that’s not an excuse for ignoring the times it doesn’t. The only other ones that come to mind are custody of children, and deaths/injuries at work.
And when that subject is about women’s bodies to a bunch of women, that is mansplaining. This isn’t an issue where the women’s gender might be irrelevant, since it’s part of the subject at hand.
You have provided no alternate explanation for the guy’s action. What reason does he have to believe that “vagina” is the only correct word and women who say “vulva” are wrong? What evidence do you have that this is a regular occurrence for him? Where is your evidence that he does this on men’s issues?
What reason do you have to doubt the women in the article who believe it is mansplaining? Saying it could be something else isn’t saying you have evidence it is something else. So it sure just seems like saying the women are wrong.
Uh huh. So you’ve got nothing other than MRA fever dreams.
I’m just glad I was here to mansplain this in case any passing women saw your not-even-anecdotal bullshit and assumed, as they must, that it was gospel truth.
What I love is that the doctor even directly explained how, even if you used “vagina” to mean the general female genitals, the article was specifically about the external aspects, and thus “vulva” is correct. So any asshole who wanted to make a descriptivist argument was shut down, too.
I did, however, not find the place where he called her a “chick,” so I didn’t reference that. Is that in the full tweet session, or did I miss it because they use pictures instead of text, and thus had to actually read instead of using Ctrl-F?
This “Paint a Vulva” thread has been in my face for a while, so I thought I’d join the conversation and point out that Vulvas rarely need to be repainted because they get exceptionally durable paint jobs at the factory and are built for the rigors of Swedish winters. It appears in retrospect that I may have misunderstood what this thread was about, but nevertheless, some readers may benefit from my observation. Carry on.
Do you really believe that there are people out there whose sole experience (presumably second-hand) of menstruation was with a woman who had her period only nine times a year, and who had no other data to corroborate that? Did said person nap during sex education class?
I mean, for Goddess’s sake, the word “menstruation” comes from the Latin word for “month.”
I do need to add that before I read this thread I didn’t actually know what a vulva was. That’d make a good poll to see how many people actually know what that is without having to google it.
