# VAGINA. VAGINA. Vaaaaagina. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211 "2012-06-15T06:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/1 "2012-06-15T06:52:11Z")
It’s such a fighting word. :dubious: > [@](#): > > Michigan House Republicans blocked a state representative from speaking on the floor on Thursday after she referenced certain parts of female anatomy in a speech on an abortion bill. > > “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no,’” Rep. Lisa Brown (D) said to cap her remarks in which she expressed stark opposition to a series of bills regulating abortion, including one that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks unless the woman’s life was in danger, according to The Detroit News. > > House Republicans called the remarks over the line and barred her from participating in a subsequent debate on education. > \*\* > “It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women,” one state representative said. “I would not say that in mixed company.\*\*” I’m sure he/she has called her worse behind closed doors. Oh, and: vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/2 "2012-06-15T06:53:33Z")
That was stupid, idiotic, foolish, unwise, moronic, and simply laughable and I’m saying this as a pro-lifer and a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/3 "2012-06-15T06:54:47Z")
The censorship or the fact she said ‘vagina’ on the floor? Was her comment, uh, nervvy? Yeah. Was it deserving of _censorship_??? F no. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/4 "2012-06-15T06:55:20Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > The censorship or the fact she said ‘vagina’ on the floor? > > Was her comment, uh, nervvy? Yeah. Was it deserving of _censorship_??? F no. The censorship. Rhetoric must be countered with rhetoric or better yet facts and argument not Victorian age prudery ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/5 "2012-06-15T06:56:08Z")
And yet the Michigan Republican lawmakers without batting an eye will refer to their dicks or rods or Johnsons. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/6 "2012-06-15T07:16:37Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > **VAGINA. VAGINA. Vaaaaagina.** _I’m warning you! If you say vagina once more… RIGHT! Who threw that?!_ ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/7 "2012-06-15T07:25:43Z")
Someone should make a monologue about this. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/8 "2012-06-15T11:26:10Z")
Perhaps Ms. Brown should indulge the delicate sensibilities of her more, um, conservative male colleagues and call it “cunt” or “pussy” or “twat” since “vagina” is so offensive. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/9 "2012-06-15T11:35:34Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > And yet the Michigan Republican lawmakers without batting an eye will refer to their dicks or rods or Johnsons. “I will have to check with my staff”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/10 "2012-06-15T11:39:03Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > _I’m warning you! If you say vagina once more… RIGHT! Who threw that?!_ …and there goes the coffee through the nostrils!! ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/11 "2012-06-15T11:41:06Z")
I think these stuffy senators should consider themselves lucky these debates aren’t done using Powerpoint… Yet. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/12 "2012-06-15T11:41:36Z")
And because I think this is hysterically funny, here are some [alternative terms](http://youtu.be/JZpxaiNV_sM) for genitalia of both genders. (NSFW! It’s Bloodhound Gang’s “Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo”. You’ve been warned.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/13 "2012-06-15T13:23:46Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > That was stupid, idiotic, foolish, unwise, moronic, and simply laughable and I’m saying this as a pro-lifer and a Republican. Thank you for saying that. And for people so afraid of the word “vagina”, thay’re sure a bunch of pussies. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/14 "2012-06-15T13:29:39Z")
Typical, they had no good response, so they tried to find what she said “offensive”. Maybe if they find it so taboo, they shouldn’t be making laws about it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/15 "2012-06-15T13:48:26Z")
> [@](#): > > “It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women,” one state representative said. “I would not say that in mixed company.” I just don’t understand how someone could make it to adulthood and still not be able to handle the word ‘‘vagina.’’ It kills me that these people are actually governing our country. By the way, I think what she said was kind of tacky. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/16 "2012-06-15T13:54:12Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I just don’t understand how someone could make it to adulthood and still not be able to handle the word ‘‘vagina.’’ It kills me that these people are actually governing our country. Oh my. You said “count.” I’m writing my congressman. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/17 "2012-06-15T13:57:44Z")
Say it softly, it’s almost like praying. Say it loudly, it’s like a million trumpets braying. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/18 "2012-06-15T13:57:51Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “I will have to check with my staff”. :eek: This is making me laugh far more than it has any right to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/19 "2012-06-15T14:00:21Z")
Vaginas! They’re everywhere!! ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211/20 "2012-06-15T14:13:24Z")
The spokesman for the Majority Floor Leader (Jim Stamos, R-Midland) issued this statement: “House Republicans often go beyond simply allowing debate by welcoming open and passionate discussion. The only way we can continue doing so, however, is to ensure that the proper level of maturity and civility are maintained on the House floor.” Representative Brown responded: “There have been many occasions of inappropriate behavior by men on the floor, and they haven’t lost their voice. I was speaking to the bill at hand. I didn’t use any curse words and I was using anatomically correct language.” In response, floor Republicans, in a display of their maturity, clapped their hands over their ears and shouted “LA LA LA LA WE CAN’T HEAR YOU!” I made that last part up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-vagina-vaaaaagina/625211.md?page=2)