Say the words.
Mar. 31st, 2011 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanThe Florida GOP thinks "uterus" is "language that would be considered inappropriate for children and other guests" and should not be used.
I suppose they'd rather use terms like "hoohah" for anything between a woman's legs, all the way up to her "boobies." Because Dog forbid that the actual proper name for a woman's anatomy be used - it's okay for them to take away our right to make decisions about what happens to our bodies, but not to talk about it?
(the actual discussion wasn't even about that - the speaker made a one-liner about his wife incorporating her uterus to get a break... which is actually sadly funny and maybe not such a bad idea. But I digress)
The point is: words are power. Naming things gives you power. Being told you cannot use a word - especially the proper medical/biological word for a part of the human body, because it is offensive? Is disempowering. Also, dismissive. And insulting to any visitors of any age.
[and I suspect had the speaker made a reference to, say, testicles, a fuss would not have been made. But that's just my suspicion]
I think the GOP has done quite enough disempowering already. They can take my words when they pry them out of my cold, dead mouth. And maybe not even then.
Uterus. Labia. Clitoris. Vagina. Breasts. Ovaries. Cervix. Fallopian Tubes. Hymen. Perineum. Anus. Vulva.
I got 'em, I name 'em, I own 'em.
I suppose they'd rather use terms like "hoohah" for anything between a woman's legs, all the way up to her "boobies." Because Dog forbid that the actual proper name for a woman's anatomy be used - it's okay for them to take away our right to make decisions about what happens to our bodies, but not to talk about it?
(the actual discussion wasn't even about that - the speaker made a one-liner about his wife incorporating her uterus to get a break... which is actually sadly funny and maybe not such a bad idea. But I digress)
The point is: words are power. Naming things gives you power. Being told you cannot use a word - especially the proper medical/biological word for a part of the human body, because it is offensive? Is disempowering. Also, dismissive. And insulting to any visitors of any age.
[and I suspect had the speaker made a reference to, say, testicles, a fuss would not have been made. But that's just my suspicion]
I think the GOP has done quite enough disempowering already. They can take my words when they pry them out of my cold, dead mouth. And maybe not even then.
Uterus. Labia. Clitoris. Vagina. Breasts. Ovaries. Cervix. Fallopian Tubes. Hymen. Perineum. Anus. Vulva.
I got 'em, I name 'em, I own 'em.
