Not all pussies are pink

Perhaps this problems stems from the USA tendency to say Vagina whether they mean vagina or vulva? I get irritated by this. The vagina is specifically the vaginal opening, the canal, the internal muscle while the vulva describes the external genital area, the labia minora and majora, clitoris etc. It’s particularly important because penetration of the vagina in many law systems is what constitutes the crime of rape. While grabbing someone’s vulva would be the crime of sexual assault.

In terms of colour, there’s an excellent art photography project that demonstrates the diversity of colour and form of vulvas. Can’t remember who it’s by but I’m sure google will turn it up. There are definitely a lot of shades of brown in vulvas. Don’t know about vaginas though. Mine is sort of dark red. I’m white.

I think picking on the pussy hats as racist is a bit daft. Why can’t people just knit them in different colours? Wool comes in many shades a bit like people.

Yes, pussy hats are pink because pink is the colour of enforced femininity under patriarchy. Nothing to do with skin colour.

That said, there's nothing to stop anyone wearing a brown pussy hat if they feel they'd like to represent the colour of their vulva rather than the flesh colour of their vagina.

This pussy hat derailment pisses me off. It's so obvious that the intention behind it is anti-woman, not standing up for black and brown women.

When Trump said “grab ‘em by the pussy” I doubt he was referring exclusively to the vagina. But who knows? I thought pussy was the whole thing, vulva and vagina. The on-line definition is “genitals” which are external sex organs only (That is news to me! 44 years old and I’ve always included thought “genitals” included the vagina!)

I assume the labia majora are a person’s natural skin colour and the labia minora are pink, although the only vulvas I’ve seen, apart from my own, belong to my (white) daughters. So, the vulva would have a pink element (labia minora) and a skin-colour element (labia majora) in which case you’d both be right. But we’d need someone who’s seen a range of vulvas to give you a definitive answer!

All vaginas are pink, well not pink but flesh coloured.

Just like all hearts, livers, lungs etc are basically the same colour.

www.pussyhatproject.com/pussyhatresponse

The pussy hats are pink because pink is the colour ascribed to femininity.
They are pussy hats because of Trumps comment 'grab 'em by the pussy''.