Just to be clear, I didn’t choose bad deferens as a random word starting with V.
I’m aware.
Specifically, after a google I was aware. The term rang a faint bell in my memory, but I don’t have the medical terms for my piping memorized so I did a quick google to confirm that you were in fact being as smartarsed as I suspected you were.
Ah. Stuff that got deleted. You linked the Google cache. I’m unsure how long it will survive, so I’ll include some extra info.
They found a PDF written by him that he linked on his Twitter, and posted a screenshotof part of it. It’s basic anti-PC stuff, like saying that, while he was willing to change from Negro to black, he won’t say African American. He also says he won’t say “undocumented immigrant,” “person with a disability,” or “enslaved person.” He considers the use of “vulva” instead of “vagina” to be the same issue.
And yes, even though he thinks that, it’s still mansplaining. Being a bigot to others doesn’t change that he’s a bigot towards women.
Funnily, he’s also changed his Twitter to say he’s Dr. [real name]. He also took it private.
When Google told you, did you then argue w/ it about how it must be wrong b/c it didn’t match what you know? B/c that’s what the subject of the OP did, only Google was a female GYN.
It’s unfortunate for both men and women to grow to adulthood ignorant of each other’s bodies; maybe if we knew more basic things about each other, wanted to know even more - we might have more empathy and less ‘mansplaining’.
Newsflash: No one disputes or gives two shits that “vagina” is used colloquially. But the whole reason people are annoyed at this wanker is because he butted into a conversation where the correct term was already established and tried to correct the experts. Are you really so dense that you don’t realize that?
I didn’t argue because I was truly puzzled. Then I asked my wife. I was like “yo! You know what a vulva is?” She knew. She didn’t even need to google it!
You are correct the subject of the OP is an ass. More humility and empathy would go a long way.
The correct word is anus.
Please tell me this is a “whoosh.” Tell me that you did not just mansplain the significance of mansplaining.
:smack: :eek: :smack:
Heh. So my hunch was right that he thought “vulva” was some genteel euphemism. Scary that I could get into his head.
I don’t know about your classes but mine certainly encompassed the possibility of menstrual periods of that nature. Heck, the first google result that comes up for me states “adults should have at least 9 periods a year” that’s on the low side but not freakish.
So, given the general level of education that most men have about such things and an unwillingness on the part of many to have discussion about it I pretty much guarantee that there are men out there with a data-set that small that “9” will seem a reasonable place for them to start.
If they were so inattentive in the sex-ed classes and so incurious about their female partners bodily functions then how much time do you think they spend on etymology?
You may have missed the flow of this, but this was a response to two posters who were saying that in their experience, “vagina” is never used to refer to anything other than the vagina. I said that was not my experience, from a UK perspective, and I linked to the Guardian article comments that give some weight to that.
You’ve clearly missed the part where I called him a “goon” and an “idiot” twice in my very first posts on the thread. He was in the wrong and the post you are complaining about was not a defence of him nor even about him.
Is it possible to “mansplain” when you don’t know the gender of the person you are speaking to?
But your post proves my general point.
Further upthread I was responding to Stanislaus about the balance of risk/reward with using such words as “mansplaining” (note - it is the word and use of it that bothers me, men talking down to women in a condescending manner is something that I am against…if you’ve read my posts you’ll know that) and the way in which they might be used to shutdown discussion. And blow me down. Here you are trying to do precisely that. I am a “mansplainer” for even voicing my concern about the use of the word “mansplainer”
Q, E, fucking D.
It’s good that it wasn’t completely wasted. Here, have this tacky badge!
It was duly noted and appreciated, We also segued into domestic abuse which, tragically, is rather apt regarding the suffering of little children , girlfriends in comas and ultimately, cemetery gates.
As a teenager I wallowed happily in the misery of moany manc, Morrisey but as middle age and children intervene I find it very difficult to find a suitable mood in which to listen to it.
If there was ever an example of mansplaining - this is it. It’s perfect.
If you can’t see this as mansplaining then you are just as clueless as the hapless moron who decided to jump in to correct some females about their own body parts.
Painfully, embarrassingly clueless.
That’s odd. My first Google hit on “menstruation frequency” is a Mayo Clinic site. The excerpt on the search results page says that “menstrual flow might occur every 21 to 35 days.” That’s 10 to 17 times per year.
It takes a special kind of stupid to calculate how many tampons a woman might need without first researching whether the presumed 9 cycles per year is actually typical.
My first Google result is the same site. Weird, huh?
Well google doesn’t give the same results for everyone, plus, I’m in the UK and that makes a big difference.
This is the first link for me when I google “how often menstruation occurs”
Here’s the search I did, just in case I’m being accused of lying again.
Not that special I’m afraid, human nature being as it is. There is a reason we have the saying “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”
Did you read the site for your first link? Because the first sentence under the topic “How often should I get my period?” is “You should get your period about once every month.”
In fact, the results page for the link on the search you did includes that very sentence.
All righty:
From the linked Google search, of course.