{"id":314,"date":"2007-03-14T21:36:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/another-vagina-rant\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T21:36:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T11:36:55","slug":"another-vagina-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/another-vagina-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Another “Vagina” Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VulvaThe recent news about the two female students suspended for using the word “vagina”<\/a> when performing The Vagina Monologues at school had me feeling peeved – once again – at the way so many people use the word “vagina” instead of “vulva” to describe a woman’s genitals.<\/p>\n

Hell, if I was the principal, I’d feel tempted to suspend them because they used the wrong word.<\/p>\n

I’ve already written a long and opinionated rant about this – and the Vagina Monologues – here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s not just me, you know. There are other women who don’t like this situation either. Today I found this opinion piece<\/a> on the precise subject, pointing out that the American Red Cross defines oral sex as putting your mouth on a woman’s vagina.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this writer is more concerned about the issue on a basic language level and doesn’t address the feminist concerns behind it. Still, it’s nice to see someone else waving the flag for “vulva” and “clitoris”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recent news about the two female students suspended for using the word “vagina” when performing The Vagina Monologues at school had me feeling peeved – once again – at the way so many people use the word “vagina” instead of “vulva” to describe a woman’s genitals. Hell, if I was the principal, I’d feel tempted to suspend them because they used the wrong word. I’ve already written a long Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-ramblings","category-sex-and-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t