Teen Vogue has rolled out an ultra-inclusive anatomically-based new category of person in its never-ending bid to avoid offending anyone, and social media users are rolling in the aisles at the result. Behold “vagina owners.”
The publication posted its “no-nonsense, 101 guide to masturbation for vagina owners” on Twitter on Tuesday, deploying the unusual phrase instead of more common descriptors like “women,” “girls,” or even the more generic standby “people with vaginas.”
While linguistic gymnastics are nothing new in the woke fever-swamp Teen Vogue calls home – see CNN’s “individuals with a cervix” or Pantone’s “people who menstruate” – this unusual construction was too much for some.
Marketing at teen girls, and teaching then that they should be compliant in the face of – and complicit in – their dehumanisation, to suit a patriarchal, sexist ideology.
Many pointed out that despite Teen Vogue’s supposed bid to empower readers, identifying women (or anyone else) by their body parts was actually dehumanizing.
The following terms do not appear anywhere in this article about women's sexual pleasure:
-woman -girl -female -feminine -lady
1,000 word essay on lady-bits and not one mention of the actual 𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑦 those bits are attached to.https://t.co/OCOrbCRyjR
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Though a few interpreted the article as a nod at Teen Vogue’s “real” audience – apparently, a bunch of pervy old men.
Congratulating y’all at Teen Vogue and your new target audience; pervy, neck-bearded, 45 year old critical theory professors.
Several of Teen Vogue’s followers, however, thanked them for expanding their horizons in terms of both describing their body parts and explaining how to use them.
Real feminists believe in empowering women, girls, and other vagina-owners with knowledge about our own bodies and control over our pleasure, Angie.
Celebrities like Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling have ended up in the digital doghouse for daring to use simplified, easily-understood terms like “women” to refer to “vagina owners” in the past.
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