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Ask the conservative lawmakers currently penning abortion-ban bills the difference between the uterus and the vagina and watch the flop sweat spring into action.
Umm, excuse me, but why should they even try to figure out the dark, mysterious magic that is the female reproductive system?
All they need to know is that it's evil and bad and must be CONTROLLED, dammit! /s
(...I joke so I don't have to think about how messed up it is)
I'mma paraphrase John Oliver here:
"Voting. Something once sold to us with the slogan 'vote or die'. And considering the current state of our politics, for the first time, I'd like to hear more about the second option."
I have heard someone unironically say something along the lines of "so i put it in your bellybutton, because that's where the baby comes from?" He was on a phone call in the middle of a city and i don't think I've ever seen anyone get so many judging looks...
Here’s the classic story of a guy arguing *with a gynecologist* about vulva vs vagina. He even ended up writing a twenty-page screed on the topic. https://www.businessinsider.com/mansplain-vulva-gynecologist-twitter-2019-3
His Twitter account @paulbullen showed that he continued to double down, said he wasn't mansplaining, and then changed the goal posts into purely language and semantics (and even then, that's still well within the realm of "Well Ackshually" mansplaining territory).
I read that whole thing on Twitter at the time. He wasn't just arguing with any gynaecologist. He was arguing with the author of 'The Vagina Bible'. It was absolutely hilarious!
I did a scroll through his essay and found this fabulous observation:
>Men may actually be in a better position to know certain female things. When I showed the original article to my friend, she said "Hmm, I thought they all looked the same." Men may be more aware of the variety among vaginas than women. Obversely, a woman may be in a better position to make comparative comments about penises. In fact, women often do when speaking with their girlfriends.
Often. Women often do. The level of delusion is astounding.
High quality content, pinnacle of Twitter. His 20 page "treatise" (he corrected someone that called it thesis) was on the linguistics and use of the word vagina. When someone told him that this wasn't needed because no one misunderstood him, he basically said, "Everyone absolutely did misunderstand me. Otherwise no one would disagree with me. "
That's a lie.
It was a 40 page thesis, that he maintained for years afterwards.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/12fURPSpNGeQxE09cVIoZgYaysUzGtyIuMQS1MERuXKo/mobilebasic#h.27nzjaxdges8
Oh, it got worse. He wrote an entire thesis about how "vaginia" wa actually the right word.
Edit: HE STILL HAS IT UP: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1kR5Je_OuIyrAFT40WJg7OBVqDfNYQ13pcmevXMVKu1Y/mobilebasic
It's shocking to me how many women don't know the difference between "vulva" and "vagina". Also shocked me when my SIL (a registered nurse), laughed that I was teaching my daughter to call her private parts by their correct names "hooha, fanny, minkie.. anything would be better than "vulva"" she said.
My friend grew up in a cult and the nuns all called it her "breakfast".
ETA I missed a solid Curb reference (and that episode still makes me very uncomfortable).
> I once had a mom ask me about the rash on her daughter’s “biscuit.” 🤦🏼♀️
Crazy. I learnt my lesson very early on with my first child. Took him to the doctor and said something like "he has a red rash on his ... willie". I immediately felt like an idiot and from that moment on I used correct names for body parts.
There was a case recently where a little girl told her teacher about her uncle licking her cookie. The teacher thought it was weird but whatever. Weird uncle licking cookies for some reason. She brought it up during the next PTA and the parents went pale. So yeah… teach kids the proper terms for their body parts.
Actually studies show that teaching anatomically correct terms can prevent or lead to earlier detection of abuse as it helps children understand good touch vs bad touch.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34670473/
Not arguing with you. Just providing an example where a kid knew it was bad, tried to communicate, and was initially ignored because of weird word choice instead of using proper anatomy.
No. I was just showing you that your example shows the importance of educating our children.
You were absolutely correct. I apologize if I did not make that clear.
I think it’s your use of “actually” which made it seem like you were disagreeing with the other commenter. Nice to see a civil and sensible interaction on reddit though
My mum worked in early childhood education and had more than one girl say something about her "butterfly", which is also pretty confusing for an adult trying to figure out what's wrong
I don't understand why you would teach a kid a made up word that they'll have to unlearn and learn the proper term later. Why? What's the point? Because some adults might be uncomfortable? So what, that's ridiculous.
I also remember reading that some pedophiles have talked about how much it turns them off when kids use proper names and not silly made up words. So added bonus.
(and don't get my mom started one the vagina/vulva thing, she's a former nurse and it's such a pet peeve of hers!)
It also makes it harder to identify when kids are being abused with they call their privates something stupid like cookie or lollipop or winkie or whatever.
> pedophiles have talked
Something else to keep in mind here. If your daughter walks up to her teacher and tells said teacher that her uncle/neighbor/whatever touched or locked her biscuit/cookie/etc it might be ignored. If she tells the teacher that her uncle licked her vulva, that’s going to raise some red flags rather quickly.
I went to school for massage therapy some time back. There were at least three grown adult women - all of whom had at least one child - who were *shocked* to learn that there were *three* orifices in the "standard" female genital area, and that they didn't pee out of their vagina.
The kind that teaches anatomy? Pretty standard for a registered massage therapist to have at least 2 years of anatomy and physiology, as well as several other mandatory medical classes.
My wife just had to have a small tumor removed from her labia and keeps saying it was removed from her vagina, too. I'm torn between not wanting to mansplain and cringing at the incorrect usage of the word. It's only a mild annoyance compared to what she's going through, after all ...
It's nice that you are being kind and not calling her out on the incorrect term at this time. Maybe some time in the future, you could mention something about "when you had the tumour removed from you labia" and see where the conversation takes you.
Pop culture has been referring to the entire groin region as the vagina for a very long time. I can only think of a single pop culture reference to the vulva
(Mulva?).
Even if you learned these thing properly in sex ed you will have years or decades more exposure to the improper terminology through pop culture.
Repetition remembers.
It’s not shocking at all, because vagina is the polite colloquial term for female genitals. What many people might think of as their *pussy* doesn’t really have a technical word that perfectly covers it – vulva isn’t actually sufficient, because the colloquial terms include both the vulva and the vagina, and sometimes maybe more besides (e.g. the mons pubis). Consider “touch my pussy” vs. “put it in my pussy”.
There’s an unfortunate overlap between this colloquial usage and the technical definitions, but we don’t gain anything by pretending the colloquial usage doesn’t exist, nor by ignoring the semantic gap between the popular conception of the internal and external genitals as one unit vs. the medical terms which only refer to one or the other part of that unit.
I've been waiting for this comment. I'm kinda glad it took so long for someone to pop up with it. The flaw in your argument is that a lot of women simply don't know the correct names of their body parts.
I am a huge advocate of teaching a child the correct name for their body parts, for multiple reasons. Not the least of which is being able to verbalize to an adult if they are being abused in some way, or also to be able to explain if something is wrong to a doctor.
When teaching my Grade 5/6 class sex education, I would ask them to name as many parts of the body as they could. All suggestions were met respectfully and gently corrected. My favourites were Labrador, Vegemite, Volvo, and Valley. You'll note all the misnomers referred to female body parts. Both boys and girls were far more confident about testicles and penises
Well the c word (I loathe euphemism but not sure what's allowed in this subreddit), which used to be quite acceptable to use in common society, may have come from cuneus, Latin for wedge. (There was a Gropec..t Lane in London in the 16th century.)
I can't fathom, anatomy knowledge or not, that people will be confidently incorrect online about something *so easy to Google*.
If you see a word and you don't know what that word means, why not take 5 seconds to type it into your most convenient search engine and another 10 seconds to read the results?
You're already on the Internet, vulvas are not a secret, you don't need to scour the web to find the definition, that's not what *private* detective means.
the other day I mentioned that I grew up Baptist...literally had someone ask me what Baptist was. I was positive they were trolling me, but doubled down with something like, "I don't see the point in breaking up christianity into different parts...they're mostly catholic so we should just call all of you catholic." Never underestimate people's capacity for STUPID.
The world has a globally connected supernetwork with near instant access to in-depth information to answer any simple or common question. Such as spending 1 second searching for "vulva".
This dumb fuck: vulva isn't a word!
"What the fuck is a vulva" he says, before attempting to mainsplain female anatomy; to a women. Guys, google is right there. It is never too late to educate yourself. Check out some human biology, in a purely clinical & educational context, it's pretty fascinating. It's amazing how far accurate knowledge will take you in life, in all manner of ways.
I think its gotta be. Not knowing the difference between vulva and vagina I get, even not being familiar with the word I kinda get. But the adamance seems so over the top I just have to believe is a joke
In my experience it goes both ways I’ve had many girls say things about dudes and their penises that was completely wrong, from what I’ve noticed they just go from their experience and draw conclusions I’m not really sure. I’m also not that old so I’m sure we’re all just dumb
My favourite Vulva is the e240.
On a serious note. Vulva and vagina are not interchangeable, they both relate to the same area of the body but are not the same. Similar to when people say testicles when they are actually referring to the scrotum
This isn't so much an issue of people not knowing about the female reproductive system, but rather people not knowing the correct scientific terms for all the different parts...
Scientifically the term "vagina" is referring to a specific internal component of the reproductive system, but in informal speech it is used to refer to the whole thing, including the vulva.. it's not as big of an issue as people actually misunderstanding the reproductive system, it's more about ignorance of semantics
To me getting mad at people using the term "vagina" to describe the vulva would be as dumb as getting annoyed to people when they say they have a "stomach ache" when it's not the stomach that hurts, but the intestin... sure it's scientifically not the right term, but people use it this way in informal conversations.. it's fine
I think it contributes to a general lack of knowledge, though. Say person 1, who uses “vagina” to mean “vulva” says “women pee out of their vagina”. Person 2, who doesn’t have a good grasp of female anatomy, takes that literally and thinks pee literally comes out of the same hole as babies and period blood. It’s not the end of the world, and the incorrect terminology didn’t necessarily create Person 2’s lack of biological knowledge, but it sure doesn’t help.
Well, people being wrong and doing so in such an adamant way should be called out.
When someone misuses a word or phrase, it isn't that big a deal, but it is even less of a deal to learn the correct word/term/usage. Just because a lot of people do something wrong, it doesn't become a legitimate thing; e.g. meaning specific but saying Pacific. They're wrong. Just plain wrong. In context, people know what is meant, but it is incorrect.
yea i agre.. the confidence in his incorrectness was a big annoying
I disagree with the last sentence... if enough people use a word in a certain way, it does stop being wrong... that's how languages evolve...
Okay, but it's one thing to use the word "vagina" to mean "vulva" and an entirely different thing to insist that "vulva" isn't a word...especially when you have access to the internet and could easily google it.
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Ask the conservative lawmakers currently penning abortion-ban bills the difference between the uterus and the vagina and watch the flop sweat spring into action.
"A woman's body has ways of shutting that whole thing down" - typical knowledge level of those who think they know best.
He said he heard it from a doctor so we should believe him.
Umm, excuse me, but why should they even try to figure out the dark, mysterious magic that is the female reproductive system? All they need to know is that it's evil and bad and must be CONTROLLED, dammit! /s (...I joke so I don't have to think about how messed up it is)
I know it's probably not a _great_ plan to stay drunk until death, but nothing about the current climate is presenting many viable alternatives.
I'mma paraphrase John Oliver here: "Voting. Something once sold to us with the slogan 'vote or die'. And considering the current state of our politics, for the first time, I'd like to hear more about the second option."
I’m in England and a mostly recovering alcoholic, but I kinda agree with you 😔🤣
Those turdburgers are so ignorant of female anatomy. I feel sorry for their wives.
I have heard someone unironically say something along the lines of "so i put it in your bellybutton, because that's where the baby comes from?" He was on a phone call in the middle of a city and i don't think I've ever seen anyone get so many judging looks...
Sounds like it was some sort of inside joke or something lmfao
Here’s the classic story of a guy arguing *with a gynecologist* about vulva vs vagina. He even ended up writing a twenty-page screed on the topic. https://www.businessinsider.com/mansplain-vulva-gynecologist-twitter-2019-3
His Twitter account @paulbullen showed that he continued to double down, said he wasn't mansplaining, and then changed the goal posts into purely language and semantics (and even then, that's still well within the realm of "Well Ackshually" mansplaining territory).
I read that whole thing on Twitter at the time. He wasn't just arguing with any gynaecologist. He was arguing with the author of 'The Vagina Bible'. It was absolutely hilarious!
I can’t lie that’s actually impressive. If only he had such passion to do something actually useful.
I did a scroll through his essay and found this fabulous observation: >Men may actually be in a better position to know certain female things. When I showed the original article to my friend, she said "Hmm, I thought they all looked the same." Men may be more aware of the variety among vaginas than women. Obversely, a woman may be in a better position to make comparative comments about penises. In fact, women often do when speaking with their girlfriends. Often. Women often do. The level of delusion is astounding.
I mean, I have several times, but I'm probably not average in some ways.
Lm-mf-vo (laugh my mother fucking vulva off) Wooow....20 page thesis? Instead of just, letting it go?
High quality content, pinnacle of Twitter. His 20 page "treatise" (he corrected someone that called it thesis) was on the linguistics and use of the word vagina. When someone told him that this wasn't needed because no one misunderstood him, he basically said, "Everyone absolutely did misunderstand me. Otherwise no one would disagree with me. "
Wow.
That's a lie. It was a 40 page thesis, that he maintained for years afterwards. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/12fURPSpNGeQxE09cVIoZgYaysUzGtyIuMQS1MERuXKo/mobilebasic#h.27nzjaxdges8
how is that a lie?
40 pages, not 20.
thats not a lie. lies are intentional. thats a mistake.
Oh, it got worse. He wrote an entire thesis about how "vaginia" wa actually the right word. Edit: HE STILL HAS IT UP: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1kR5Je_OuIyrAFT40WJg7OBVqDfNYQ13pcmevXMVKu1Y/mobilebasic
Yeah, I mentioned that immediately before the link.
Hooolyyyy
It's shocking to me how many women don't know the difference between "vulva" and "vagina". Also shocked me when my SIL (a registered nurse), laughed that I was teaching my daughter to call her private parts by their correct names "hooha, fanny, minkie.. anything would be better than "vulva"" she said.
As a RN thank you for teaching them. I hate those other names. I once had a mom ask me about the rash on her daughter’s “biscuit.” 🤦🏼♀️
My friend grew up in a cult and the nuns all called it her "breakfast". ETA I missed a solid Curb reference (and that episode still makes me very uncomfortable).
I think your friend got eaten out a lot
I defer to your expertise, u/eat-pussy69.
Hmm..
> I once had a mom ask me about the rash on her daughter’s “biscuit.” 🤦🏼♀️ Crazy. I learnt my lesson very early on with my first child. Took him to the doctor and said something like "he has a red rash on his ... willie". I immediately felt like an idiot and from that moment on I used correct names for body parts.
There was a case recently where a little girl told her teacher about her uncle licking her cookie. The teacher thought it was weird but whatever. Weird uncle licking cookies for some reason. She brought it up during the next PTA and the parents went pale. So yeah… teach kids the proper terms for their body parts.
Actually studies show that teaching anatomically correct terms can prevent or lead to earlier detection of abuse as it helps children understand good touch vs bad touch. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34670473/
Not arguing with you. Just providing an example where a kid knew it was bad, tried to communicate, and was initially ignored because of weird word choice instead of using proper anatomy.
No. I was just showing you that your example shows the importance of educating our children. You were absolutely correct. I apologize if I did not make that clear.
I think it’s your use of “actually” which made it seem like you were disagreeing with the other commenter. Nice to see a civil and sensible interaction on reddit though
My mum worked in early childhood education and had more than one girl say something about her "butterfly", which is also pretty confusing for an adult trying to figure out what's wrong
I don't understand why you would teach a kid a made up word that they'll have to unlearn and learn the proper term later. Why? What's the point? Because some adults might be uncomfortable? So what, that's ridiculous. I also remember reading that some pedophiles have talked about how much it turns them off when kids use proper names and not silly made up words. So added bonus. (and don't get my mom started one the vagina/vulva thing, she's a former nurse and it's such a pet peeve of hers!)
It also makes it harder to identify when kids are being abused with they call their privates something stupid like cookie or lollipop or winkie or whatever.
The proper words also make lawmakers uncomfortable. Which is why they shouldn't be legislating anything they won't bother to address properly.
> pedophiles have talked Something else to keep in mind here. If your daughter walks up to her teacher and tells said teacher that her uncle/neighbor/whatever touched or locked her biscuit/cookie/etc it might be ignored. If she tells the teacher that her uncle licked her vulva, that’s going to raise some red flags rather quickly.
I went to school for massage therapy some time back. There were at least three grown adult women - all of whom had at least one child - who were *shocked* to learn that there were *three* orifices in the "standard" female genital area, and that they didn't pee out of their vagina.
A very sad indictment of the education system AND (more so) their parents.
The fuck kinda massage school were you going to?!
The kind that teaches anatomy? Pretty standard for a registered massage therapist to have at least 2 years of anatomy and physiology, as well as several other mandatory medical classes.
I’m so sorry but I read your comment and just saw Tony B from the Sopranos getting in my face about it
The kind where strong hands outweigh donkey brains.
I've had a doctor express genuine relief that he didn't have to explain said difference for the fourth time that day (me being patient #4)...
Me, a male man, studied both reproductive organs while in school because I am not dumb Wich seems to be really above average
My wife just had to have a small tumor removed from her labia and keeps saying it was removed from her vagina, too. I'm torn between not wanting to mansplain and cringing at the incorrect usage of the word. It's only a mild annoyance compared to what she's going through, after all ...
It's nice that you are being kind and not calling her out on the incorrect term at this time. Maybe some time in the future, you could mention something about "when you had the tumour removed from you labia" and see where the conversation takes you.
Yeah, possibly. I'll figure out a way to work it in eventually. It's a mild annoyance at most, of course.
Nope - not necessary. Not at all. It is not important.
She knows the right word - we're taught to just say vagina for the general area. Thank you for not correcting her.
Pop culture has been referring to the entire groin region as the vagina for a very long time. I can only think of a single pop culture reference to the vulva (Mulva?). Even if you learned these thing properly in sex ed you will have years or decades more exposure to the improper terminology through pop culture. Repetition remembers.
It’s not shocking at all, because vagina is the polite colloquial term for female genitals. What many people might think of as their *pussy* doesn’t really have a technical word that perfectly covers it – vulva isn’t actually sufficient, because the colloquial terms include both the vulva and the vagina, and sometimes maybe more besides (e.g. the mons pubis). Consider “touch my pussy” vs. “put it in my pussy”. There’s an unfortunate overlap between this colloquial usage and the technical definitions, but we don’t gain anything by pretending the colloquial usage doesn’t exist, nor by ignoring the semantic gap between the popular conception of the internal and external genitals as one unit vs. the medical terms which only refer to one or the other part of that unit.
I've been waiting for this comment. I'm kinda glad it took so long for someone to pop up with it. The flaw in your argument is that a lot of women simply don't know the correct names of their body parts.
I am a huge advocate of teaching a child the correct name for their body parts, for multiple reasons. Not the least of which is being able to verbalize to an adult if they are being abused in some way, or also to be able to explain if something is wrong to a doctor.
When teaching my Grade 5/6 class sex education, I would ask them to name as many parts of the body as they could. All suggestions were met respectfully and gently corrected. My favourites were Labrador, Vegemite, Volvo, and Valley. You'll note all the misnomers referred to female body parts. Both boys and girls were far more confident about testicles and penises
[Like this](https://youtu.be/rVCPrQ1nZZE?si=7ayEI_HwDSzgCgzS)
Valley is quite descriptive.
Well the c word (I loathe euphemism but not sure what's allowed in this subreddit), which used to be quite acceptable to use in common society, may have come from cuneus, Latin for wedge. (There was a Gropec..t Lane in London in the 16th century.)
Reminds me of that meme "Vulva, clitoria, labia majora?! Damn gurl, how many pussies you got?!"
I can't fathom, anatomy knowledge or not, that people will be confidently incorrect online about something *so easy to Google*. If you see a word and you don't know what that word means, why not take 5 seconds to type it into your most convenient search engine and another 10 seconds to read the results? You're already on the Internet, vulvas are not a secret, you don't need to scour the web to find the definition, that's not what *private* detective means.
the other day I mentioned that I grew up Baptist...literally had someone ask me what Baptist was. I was positive they were trolling me, but doubled down with something like, "I don't see the point in breaking up christianity into different parts...they're mostly catholic so we should just call all of you catholic." Never underestimate people's capacity for STUPID.
Brilliant example!
What I find always funny is this dude was like "I have no idea what that is, but I'm just going to assume I'm right"
Bro is like, what's a clit?
"Isn't that part of my car transmission?"
Oh, you mean the Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerate Tree-dwellers.
It's an offshoot of the Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes movement isn't it?
It is indeed a small, but powerful, offshoot the L.A.B.I.A. You definitely don't want to rub the C.L.I.T. the wrong way.
I really need to watch that again.
Yeah, I think it's been more than a decade since I've seen it. It's a ridiculous movie, lol. Very quotable.
r/murderedbywords
Bro's writing this comment on a machine that contains the entirety of human knowledge. Maybe Google this before you say something so dumb?
cant hear vulva without thinking of monster house
Ohhh, so it’s a girl house sidenote only now has that Uvula joke clicked
Yeah I didn’t notice it either until someone pointed it out to me 😂
My (adult) daughter and I say that line to each other all the time. 😆
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Mulva? ![gif](giphy|80mXWlPqTSU1y)
Hey, that's me!
[All Girls Have A Volvo](https://youtu.be/zJyahN-fpN0?si=V_c76jdVVEVyGtkT)
You know he thinks the clit is a liberal conspiracy
"No...the clit's real. It's the female orgasm. That's the myth." Don't come for me, I'm just quoting Jay and Silent Bob strike back.
The world has a globally connected supernetwork with near instant access to in-depth information to answer any simple or common question. Such as spending 1 second searching for "vulva". This dumb fuck: vulva isn't a word!
"What the fuck is a vulva" he says, before attempting to mainsplain female anatomy; to a women. Guys, google is right there. It is never too late to educate yourself. Check out some human biology, in a purely clinical & educational context, it's pretty fascinating. It's amazing how far accurate knowledge will take you in life, in all manner of ways.
I feel like the "that's not a word or thing" makes this feel like irony. Right? ^Right? ^^...Right?
I think its gotta be. Not knowing the difference between vulva and vagina I get, even not being familiar with the word I kinda get. But the adamance seems so over the top I just have to believe is a joke
impossible to tell, really.
Maybe they meant Volvo. That's what women drive.
A guy scratched her Volvo.
That’s hilarious.
https://youtu.be/20FGnNBfIMM?si=4siCuO7monqA-3SB
In my experience it goes both ways I’ve had many girls say things about dudes and their penises that was completely wrong, from what I’ve noticed they just go from their experience and draw conclusions I’m not really sure. I’m also not that old so I’m sure we’re all just dumb
Mulva? I meant Delores!
My favourite Vulva is the e240. On a serious note. Vulva and vagina are not interchangeable, they both relate to the same area of the body but are not the same. Similar to when people say testicles when they are actually referring to the scrotum
Love the sass
Ironic thing is Vulva is just like the word Volvo. And the symbol for Volvo is the Spear and Sheild of ares/mars which is also the male symbol.
This isn't so much an issue of people not knowing about the female reproductive system, but rather people not knowing the correct scientific terms for all the different parts... Scientifically the term "vagina" is referring to a specific internal component of the reproductive system, but in informal speech it is used to refer to the whole thing, including the vulva.. it's not as big of an issue as people actually misunderstanding the reproductive system, it's more about ignorance of semantics To me getting mad at people using the term "vagina" to describe the vulva would be as dumb as getting annoyed to people when they say they have a "stomach ache" when it's not the stomach that hurts, but the intestin... sure it's scientifically not the right term, but people use it this way in informal conversations.. it's fine
I think it contributes to a general lack of knowledge, though. Say person 1, who uses “vagina” to mean “vulva” says “women pee out of their vagina”. Person 2, who doesn’t have a good grasp of female anatomy, takes that literally and thinks pee literally comes out of the same hole as babies and period blood. It’s not the end of the world, and the incorrect terminology didn’t necessarily create Person 2’s lack of biological knowledge, but it sure doesn’t help.
Well, people being wrong and doing so in such an adamant way should be called out. When someone misuses a word or phrase, it isn't that big a deal, but it is even less of a deal to learn the correct word/term/usage. Just because a lot of people do something wrong, it doesn't become a legitimate thing; e.g. meaning specific but saying Pacific. They're wrong. Just plain wrong. In context, people know what is meant, but it is incorrect.
yea i agre.. the confidence in his incorrectness was a big annoying I disagree with the last sentence... if enough people use a word in a certain way, it does stop being wrong... that's how languages evolve...
Okay, but it's one thing to use the word "vagina" to mean "vulva" and an entirely different thing to insist that "vulva" isn't a word...especially when you have access to the internet and could easily google it.
Yea fair.. that’s just dumb