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Men that don't know what a cervix is

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biddyboo · 18/08/2024 19:39

So David Lammy is probably the most well known example, but the whole boxing fiasco has been quite illuminating in illustrating how many men don't have a clue what a cervix is (whilst arguing with absolute conviction that IK has one). Some men also seem to think that it is something that is checked for at birth 🙄

Here is the latest example I've seen

https://x.com/OkayBiology/status/1825174768460673063

For those not on X, it's journalist Benjamin Butterworth mansplaining about cervixes to two exasperated women.

I must ask my oh when he gets back if he knows what a cervix is. I suspect he has a vague idea. Do the men in your life know what the cervix is?

x.com

https://x.com/OkayBiology/status/1825174768460673063

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BashfulClam · 18/08/2024 21:05

Just asked DH if he knows what a cervix is ‘well I’ve got a fair idea!’ So I said ‘go on?’ He said it’s the ‘bit at the top inside where the womb is’…kinda right I suppose. I’ll make him a hot chocolate for that.

NewGreenDuck · 18/08/2024 21:04

It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic, and embarrassing for him. I do, however, have this vision of him trying to find a cervix and being surprised.

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biddyboo · 18/08/2024 21:04

ditalini · 18/08/2024 20:39

Google Buttergasp 😁

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timetorefresh · 18/08/2024 20:50

I teach biology. Some girls are very reluctant to believe they have three holes. I use diagrams and everything

Garlicfest · 18/08/2024 20:48

I knew what it is ("the neck of the womb") and where it is, but didn't know it's an actual organ until I had a diaphragm fitted at 31. I had to furtle around in my fanjo with a very bossy nurse watching, until I could find it straight away.

I think I'd imagined it as a sort of narrowing tube, like the neck of a bottle 😳

DeadsoulsAngel · 18/08/2024 20:48

solice84 · 18/08/2024 20:44

I was once asked by a man who had fathered 3 children if we just pee through the tampon when on our period
Sounds made up but I shit you not and he wasn't the only bloke who thought we peed out of the same place babies come out of !

Alarmingly I’ve known women who think that. Seriously!

Hairyesterdaygonetoday · 18/08/2024 20:47

GrumpyPanda · 18/08/2024 19:49

Not just cervixes. There was a genius on Twitter claiming the Algerian boxer has, I quote, "a uterus and a womb."

Both, eh? Proved he’s more of a woman than we are!

solice84 · 18/08/2024 20:44

I was once asked by a man who had fathered 3 children if we just pee through the tampon when on our period
Sounds made up but I shit you not and he wasn't the only bloke who thought we peed out of the same place babies come out of !

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 18/08/2024 20:44

I didn't see much point asking my husband because he wouldn't know what the word means in English and in his language it's just called the neck of the uterus.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 18/08/2024 20:43

I just asked my dad and he said, "It's part of the female anatomy. Near the womb. The bit that the sperm goes up?"

bakewellbride · 18/08/2024 20:42

My dh is mid thirties and knows every body part but he's a medical professional so I'd be alarmed if he didn't!

AncientAndModern1 · 18/08/2024 20:41

There is a guy on one of the Khelif threads on here who insisted that doctors saw a baby girl’s vagina at birth. It’s pitiful.

ditalini · 18/08/2024 20:39

biddyboo · 18/08/2024 20:37

So this is the first time I've come across Benjamin Butterworth. Is he an Owen Jones type? He seems quite pleased with himself.

Google Buttergasp 😁

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biddyboo · 18/08/2024 20:37

So this is the first time I've come across Benjamin Butterworth. Is he an Owen Jones type? He seems quite pleased with himself.

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ditalini · 18/08/2024 20:31

We do a quiz every year as part of our all staff meeting and there's always an anatomy question. I'm thinking this is a shoe-in.

RantyMcRanterton · 18/08/2024 20:30

Someone more techy than myself needs to put up the #Buttergasp gif for max lollage Grin

Retiredfromthere · 18/08/2024 20:29

My OH did not know what a cervix is. He does now. And he did know that your womb and uterus are names for the same thing. So not entirely hopeless.

In his defence he comes from an age when the girls (e.g. me) were taught Biology. The boys were taught Physics. But we are quite elderly and I would have thought that anyone under 50 (even males) would have been taught at school about basic reproductive anatomy at school as part of sex ed.

quantumbutterfly · 18/08/2024 20:27

dp knows exactly where it is and what it is. yay

Bohemond23 · 18/08/2024 20:26

Just asked DH - and he is generally an expert on the workings of female anatomy (ahem) - he thinks it is near a vagina. BTW I know this is a serious thread.

ditalini · 18/08/2024 20:20

I just asked dh if he knew what a cervix was and he admitted up front that he wasn't sure but when asked to guess thought it might have something to do with fallopian tubes.

He knows now though, so he's one up on Butterworth & Lammy (although he was already there because he knows what a woman is).

LiterallyOnFire · 18/08/2024 20:18

RandySavage · 18/08/2024 20:17

“Mine does, despite having a beard”

for a second I thought you were referring to your cervix!

GrinGrin

RandySavage · 18/08/2024 20:17

“Mine does, despite having a beard”

for a second I thought you were referring to your cervix!

LiterallyOnFire · 18/08/2024 20:12

Mine does, despite having a beard. So it's possible.

quantumbutterfly · 18/08/2024 20:10

So that's what you were talking about Donald. Looks a bit bitey, it'll have your hand off if you try and grab it.

lcakethereforeIam · 18/08/2024 20:02

DonaldJohnTrump · 18/08/2024 19:55

I know, it's a kinda spotty cat thing.

True that. Here's a woman with her cervix

Sassy National Geographic GIF by Nat Geo Wild