Interesting Links for 15-09-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats Who Would Not Shut Up About 'Doctor Who'

(tags:UK drwho satire diplomacy Russia funny )

2. the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease in older people nearly doubled in the year following a Covid infection (0.35% to 0.68%)

(tags:pandemic alzheimers )

3. There's no shame in teaching children to say 'vagina' (I was horrified the time Sophia said "vagina" to a female doctor who replied with "front bottom")

(tags:vagina penis language children )

Comments

[lilysea]

A DOCTOR saying "front bottom"?

That's horrifying

Altho I wish people would stop saying vagina if they mean vulva

[simont]

A DOCTOR saying "front bottom"?

… for one very confused moment I associated this response with link #1 rather than #3 :-)

[ninetydegrees]

3) Vulva, not vagina. And yes, children should be able to talk about bodies (and be educated about consent and inappropriate touching, etc. too) without resorting to euphemisms because that's all they know (and usually that comes with children not understanding how their own bodies work). Adults only think it's an issue because they are uncomfortable with it and they prioritize this over anything else.

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[conuly]

Just gonna third that if you mean vulva you should say that. The vagina is internal.

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[andrewducker]

I am pretty sure that that battle is lost. Synecdoche won some decades ago.

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[channelpenguin]

???

I wasn't aware there was any other common usage than the correct medical ones. As you say, vulva outside (and various other parts, all with their own names) and vagina for the inside.

It should be no more controversial to use the right terms at any age than using "nostril", "septum" etc for the different parts of your nose.

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[calimac]

And "crescendo" does not mean "climax."

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[conuly]

...are we talking about orgasms here? Because I gotta say, I always thought "climax" was about as cheesy as anything else in the hifalutin' talking-bout-sex playbook.

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[calimac]

No.

Maybe your misapprehensions as to what "crescendo" means are based on an entire misunderstanding. Certainly the common misuse of the word is.

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[conuly]

This is a strange position for me to be in, because I'm usually on the receiving end of this sort of thing, but has anybody ever told you that you need to let things go?

Enough is enough. This isn't my journal or yours. There is a time and a place, this is very much neither, and if you aren't clear on where that time and place is then maybe you should drop the topic altogether. We're clearly never going to agree.

Vulva versus vagina

[fanf]

I like the Vagina Museum’s FAQ about their name https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/about/faqs

Re: Vulva versus vagina

[andrewducker]

I really like that!

Off-topic: Vagina Museum

[bens_dad]

When I saw that the Vagina Museum was .co.uk I looked at the map: is it really on the railway line ?
No. It is *under* the railway. Address Arches 275-276 Poyser Street London E2 9RF.

(Google street map is before they moved in.)

[calimac]

1) I was actually leaning sort of towards the Russians' pov on this, until the last sentence. Battlestar Galactica? Ewww! I'd rather watch Dr Who.

[simont]

Ah, but which Battlestar Galactica?

I presume it's deliberate that they picked two shows that both have an old version, a new version, and a loud argument lively debate about which is better.

[calimac]

Oh, I'm sure they meant the new one. Not even in a satirical article would anyone praise the old one as "real sci-fi." At any rate, my opinion stands: I'd rather watch either Old Who or New Who, though I'm not a fan of either, than sit through either B:G again.

Item 3

[dewline]

I could see that actually happening, and I might even admit to empathy for such Russians although I've enjoyed both Doctor Who and Galactica...and I'm curious about Russian SFTV.

[magedragonfire]

I've always used vulva or vagina when talking about body parts to my kiddo, who's two and a half, but never have had occasion to talk about penes with her... until fairly recently, when she went camping with her dad for a week, and of course he had to take her into washrooms with him while he was doing his business. Apparently she fished around for a word to talk to him about it, and came up with "front tail".

(I mean, it wasn't a bad guess.)

[andrewducker]

Love it!

[channelpenguin]

doesnt penis mean tail in latin? Like it was originally a slang term.

Schwanz in german also means both

[magedragonfire]

I thought that was “cauda”? Like, caudal fin and such.

It is funny to think that the American “hooha” could come to mean vagina/vulva in another language some day.

[channelpenguin]

Etymology
The word "penis" is taken from the Latin word for "tail". Some derive that from Indo-European *pesnis, and the Greek word πέος = "penis" from Indo-European *pesos. Prior to the adoption of the Latin word in English, the penis was referred to as a "yard"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis#:~:text=8%20External%20links-,Etymology,to%20as%20a%20%22yard%22.