Canada gives a whole new meaning to "beating around the bush"
Happy belated Vagina and Vulva Day!
Canada! "We shouldn't be ashamed to talk about our bodies" and vulvas and vaginas are "powerful and important" but we also mustn’t dignify the people who have vaginas and vulvas with a name because we’re the progressives.
If you think (female!) politicians being unwilling to name the sex class that bears the burdens of human reproduction is good for our rights, you're a moron.
The thing I find terribly ironic about all the neologisms for the female sex class is that these terms invariably reduce women to 'birthing bodies,' uterus-havers, reproductive functions and services, and even just body parts with no person attached because what are birthing bodies and vulvas and vaginas good for? (Meanwhile, the “vulva-having” politician—can we just call her a “vulva” for short? that’s how this works, right?—who introduces the motion cites abortion bans south of the border as the reason why Canada needs a special day to lift up these body parts…)
Tell me, honestly, how do you defend the personhood of a 'uterus-haver'? How do you conceptualize self-determination for vulvas and vaginas?
Try it. Let me know how it goes.
In the meantime, can we stop pretending this is progressive?
It reminds me of other dehumanizing language used for women like "just a hole". I also think that when violence against women in particular is so sexualized, we need to think hard about language and images that encourages separation of women's bodies from their humanity.
"It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." 1984, George Orwell