This is my girlfriend, Mulva.

I have a pet peeve. Perhaps most people don’t care, but Britney Spears et al have NOT been showing us their vaginae. I’m not even sure if gynecologists regularly actually see anyone’s vagina. Sure, the vagina is the complementary organ to the penis, so there does seem to be some slight logic there in using the word. However, I think it became the vogue to use the word first out of ignorance, and then because vagina is so fun and easy to say. The vagina is not even the analogous part. That job is held by the clitoris – and even Jerry Seinfeld can’t pronounce that word.

From Wikipedia

In common speech, the term “vagina” is often used inaccurately to refer to the vulva or female genitals generally; strictly speaking, the vagina is a specific internal structure and the vulva is the exterior genitalia only.

It might seem uncool initially, but I think if we make a concerted effort, we can get our society in the habit of talking about vulvae wherever appropriate. Perhaps it can start in a joking manner. Add a little sarcasm to your intonation, but eventually it will just be the norm.

Help me out, brothers and sisters.

5 thoughts on “This is my girlfriend, Mulva.

  1. I have a friend…it is her pet peeve as well…huh. I will inform her…she is not fighting this fight alone. lol.

  2. I suppose that it would be in bad taste to say that someone exposed their vulva in their Volvo. Newscasters and the like would scramble for their dictionary to see ‘wut dat meanz’. Besides, who would be interested in The Vulva Monologues?

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