Feminists Want To Rename Female Body Parts, Because #Patriarchy

ALERT ALERT ALERT. This is an Actual Article which serves as a perfect example of how far feminism has fallen.

This is the name of the article:

If it sounds like a feminist is making the case to rename female body parts because some parts are named after males, it’s because a feminist is making the case to rename female body parts because some parts are named after males.

Take a tour of the female pelvis, and you’ll encounter a few incongruous people along the way. How did James Douglas end up tucked behind the uterus? What is Gabriel Fallopian doing hanging around the ovaries? Why is Caspar Bartholin the Younger attached to the labia? And can we trust Ernst Grafenberg’s claim that he actually found the G-spot? Whether you know it or not, each of these dudes have ended up immortalised in the female pelvis – as the Pouch of Douglas, Bartholin’s glands, fallopian tubes, and that elusive Grafenberg spot.

The truth is, men are all over women’s bodies – dead, white male anatomists, that is. Their names live on eponymously, immortalised like audacious explorers for conquering the geography of the female pelvis as if it were terra nullius.

Ladies. Tell me. Have you ever thought, “Wow. Too many of my body parts are named after dudes. Gabriel Fallopian, CRAWL OUT of my pelvis!”

No? OK good. Me neither.

The entire article is full of that kind of drivel. Basically, the author is #triggered because too many men have made significant strides in all sorts of departments. Because of that, too many things are named after them, which is totally offensive to women.

When it comes to science and medicine, men (and gods) have left their mark all over the place. They have stamped their names on thousands of creatures, from salmonella bacteria (after US veterinarian Daniel Elmer Salmon, though it was actually his assistant’s discovery) to the endangered grevy zebra (named after a former French president).

After all, until the last century, women were almost excluded from academic medicine. But the continued use of these mostly male eponyms not only reflects the gender bias in our medical knowledge base. It may continue to perpetuate it.

The article adds:

It raises the question of whether our perceptions of the body, and its conditions, are also skewed by gender biases without us realising.

PS– the word “vagina” is sexist as well.

Even anatomical terms we think ‘sound’ feminine often have anachronistic and inherently sexist origins. The word ‘vagina’, for example, comes from the Latin for sheath – a close-fitting cover for the blade of a knife or sword. Similarly, the Late Greek word kleitorís, which referred to clitoris, can be traced back to kleíein: ‘to shut away’.

You don’t need to be Freud to see the outdated metaphors here.

Does this mean p*ssy hats are accidentally sexist? Because I FREAKING HOPE SO!

There’s a LOT more where that came from, but the author ends with this note.

It remains to be seen whether these terms will catch on. But perhaps people should be encouraged to create the language they need. As for anatomical terminology that has patriarchal residue, Boroditsky says: “letting it fall away is the death it needs to have”.

Start thinking of new names for your female organs, ladies. Tell the patriarchy to CRAWL OUT. Even if you don’t feel like you’re being used, you ARE. The patriarchy is in your pelvis as we speak.