Janelle Monae's vagina for everyone.

[Jeanhatchet]

Well really. It's a great cute video for Pynk where she wears chaps in the shape of a vagina and her girlfriend's head pops out naughtily.

It could be empowering.

If she didn't feel the absolute need to head off transphobia accusations with a statement that "vaginas are for everyone"

Well. No. They aren't. Vagina pants are for everyone. Technically. Though I'd proper eye roll a man in "This is what a vagina looks like" pants. Even now I can see Corbyn and Little Owen Jones totally trying.

Vaginas? They just be for women. And we can't take the thing off at night. Which would be handy sometimes. As then we might not get it raped or cut or impregnated leading to maternal death.

They were enthusing over this on Front Row, poss Friday? They seemed to think it was very empowering.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09y6zgb There you go - it was Thursday.

Why are these things always "empowering"? Did they explain why or how this will give women and girls more power?

This whole Pynk video thing seems to have just turned into Janelle Monae reiterating that not all women have vaginas (which by the way, we all know is total bollocks).

And it totally diminishes the whole message of what she was trying to say.

I know Monae will have been under huge pressure to be 'inclusive' as we all know that women (especially lesbian women) are not allowed anything to call their own, or even their vaginas. But I would have respected her a lot more if she had left out the pink baseball bat and pink punch bag imagery, had all the women wearing the vagina trousers and said nothing about 'not all women having vaginas'.

Now I just think 'meh'. And it does come across a little bit 'trying to be controversial and unique' too hard.