No, not this year’s version of ‘vaginal steaming’ , but from the Newsbeat article: ‘Why I paint vulvas in public toilets instead of penises’. (Newsbeat is BBC news aimed at the younglings)
"I think it's important to recognise that having a vulva or vagina isn't something that makes a woman, but for a lot of women that have them they're really important," says [young female person making her living through producing vulva- related artwork].
www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48260097
I opened the article expecting there to be a pro-woman situation here but it’s just really odd and saddening.
What does ‘make a woman’ then? Why is it so important to centre and recognise a tiny minority of people’s dysphoric feelings before you’re allowed to say that a lot of the women ‘who do have vulvas’
feel they’re ‘important’?
On the other hand, nice artwork and (hopefully) it will be read by other women as celebrating women’s vulvas in a women’s toilet. All good. But how sad this has to be a subversive way to see art. Someone has put an awful lot of pressure on young women to deny their own reality and to validate others’ feelings way over and above what they know from their own female life experiences. While the BBC are ramming this point home again. 