You can’t use “nether regions” in Michigan. They’ll think you’re talking about the UP.
I have said for years that if I were a public figure I would use a pseudonym. I think…yes, I think I shall run for office as F.G. Vagina, just to make people in politics use the word.
Haven’t read the thread, has anyone referenced Serial Mom yet?
Everyone knows she should have said vajayjay. That’s so much more accurate.
We call it “puds.” As in, “Ouch! You got kicked/punched in the puds? Stone bruise…”
I came in here to sing va-giiiii-NA, like The Simpson’s theme song.
For some, “vagina” leaves a nasty taste in their mouth.
I know this isn’t the Pit, but … FUCK VAGINAS!!
Nice username/post combo.
That was my first thought, but it is a little too direct for the sensitive ears of the majority party. I was thinking of about a hundred variations of: “This legislative body has undertaken the regulation and inspection of the portions of a person who is not a man that are considered not a man, yet not a corporation, and in my opinion a human person…” and about a hundred variations of that sort of thing.
Va legislator Dave Albo (Republican) had that problem: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/del-dave-albo-all-that-ultrasound-talk-ruined-a-romantic-night-video/2012/02/24/gIQAiL9WYR_blog.html (Indirect link to video of his statement on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates)
He doesn’t say “vagina”, but he practically gives the legislature a front-row seat to his marital sex life. So much for decorum.
OK, I want to be fair here. It’s highly probable that the offensive thing about what she said was the sentence, not the word.
Did you get that? She said that they were, “all so interested in her vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no,” making a dirty joke with a rape reference. They were understandably insulted and offended. It was rude to treat this, however teasingly as if they were a bunch of horny lads, or even rapists, when they’re talking about saving innocent human lives here. Dismissive feminist* ad hominem.*
But the response, man, way to reinforce the stereotype of the male GOP officeholder as gay. :rolleyes:
ETA: At least, that’s a charitable interpretation. Then there are twits (I’m in MPSIMS, I’ll say “twits”; I wanted a different vowel) like Dave Albo, and I wonder.
How about those TV ads for feminine hygiene products that talk about “vaginal” symptoms? Talk about mixed company! Not only women, but children might see those!
Their comments make it very clear they were offended she used the word vagina.
It’s not an ad hominem. It’s a blunt, negative description of their proposed legislation that they didn’t care to hear. It’s somewhat typical of politicians to get offended by this sort of thing - ‘don’t call it throwing people out of their homes, call it a discussion of eminent domain proposals vis a vis redevelopment of downtown’ - but the fact that Republicans proposing restrictions on when a woman can have an abortion get offended by a woman using the word “vagina” illustrates exactly why it’s important to call people on this kind of bullshit.
The only thing that deflected Virginia’s law mandating ultrasounds before abortions was when it was pointed out to the legislature that an ultrasound in early pregnancy that is likely to provide an image (as required by the bill) was a trans-vaginal ultrasound. The bill did not, as I have been told, directly mandate a trans-vaginal ultrasound, but it did so indirectly. Forcing an object into any orifice of a person against that person’s will is rape. The state was mandating rape against its own citizens. Once that got enough publicity, the Governor said he would not sign the bill until the requirement was modified. He signed the modified bill, which still mandates ultrasounds before any abortion but allows trans-abdominal ultrasounds in early pregnancy.
So in Virginia the state does not require you have a cuke shoved up your hoo-ha, but does require that someone spooge on your tummy and rub a gizmo all over it. The state motto should be changed to “Yeah, we’ve tyrants and we’re totally cool with that!”
Other states still went the full route and required doctors to rape their patients on behalf of the state. Consider the nations in history who engaged in state-sponsored rape, and whether we want the US to be in that company.
But a legislator cannot speak the medical term for a body part that is relevant to the legislation under debate. What the hell? Those moronic legislators who censured her do not make me proud of my country, my gender, or my species.
Also, she points how how conservatives, the self-appointed defenders of faith, may have censured her for describing her faith on the floor of the state house.
[Dean Vernon Wormer]Mysoginist, anti-semitic and stupid is no way to go through life, son.[/Dean Vernon Wormer]
Morons.
Does Rep. Callton even know what a vagina is? Because I can sort of understand why a guy might not want to talk about, say, penises and testicles in mixed company, but…really? We’re now afraid to say “vagina” in the presence of people who have vaginas?
Exactly. In the course of this legislative session they can pass a law that literally controls her own vagina, but she herself can’t refer to it during the session, apparently.
They’d probably be happier if she just made a vague gesture and a reference to “down there.”
State senators and congressmen? In *my *vagina? It’s more likely than you think.
The City of Chicago considered putting a special tax on motels that rent rooms by the hour. Alderman Dorthy “The Witch” Tilman stood up in front of the assembly and declared, “No matter how you look at it, this is a HEAD tax!” (emphasis hers)
Oh and virginia … vagabond … vaguely. Ugh, this dickhead just can’t say it.
Hello Typo Knig, perhaps you agree with the slogan, “If I want the gov’t in my womb, I’ll fuck a senator.”
Oh, and … vagina.