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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Someone take the plasticine away!!!

65 replies

Sexnotgender · 08/09/2020 12:48

Stop YEP. Just stop.

Is that a binder on the figure on the left?

Someone take the plasticine away!!!
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testing987654321 · 08/09/2020 18:23

Those penises!! They are as misshapen as the vulvas.

Who is behind this rubbish?

Clymene · 08/09/2020 18:30

theyepproject.org.au/blog/what-they-dont-tell-us-guys-about-sex-campaign/

They do say that some men don't have penises and have a terrible plasticine model of a man in a skirt (please note MNHQ this is on a poster saying that men come in all shapes and sizes) as well as a plasticine person who I assume is supposed to have had a double mastectomy because they have red lines under their nipples.

Clymene · 08/09/2020 18:35

This s the last picture on the periods page which doesn't talk about the fact that periods are unique to female anatomy.

This is a government funded youth sex education programme, teaching children that humans can change sex.

Someone take the plasticine away!!!
endofthelinefinally · 08/09/2020 18:36

Honest to god, I have delivered hundreds of babies. Those vulva illustrations look like nothing on earth.

Greenandcabbagelooking · 08/09/2020 18:41

@Clymene

This s the last picture on the periods page which doesn't talk about the fact that periods are unique to female anatomy.

This is a government funded youth sex education programme, teaching children that humans can change sex.

I mean, some females with periods are girls, as they aren’t adults, but I know that’s not really what that poster means.

Sigh.

CharlieParley · 08/09/2020 18:50

@DianasLasso

Leaving aside the very obvious penis, that's an odd set of plasticine models. Comparing it against the "Great Wall of Vagina" (moulds of actual vulvas) barring the one or two who are transmen who've had a metoidioplasty (surgical procedure involving freeing up of the clitoris from the surrounding tissue), no women have clitorises that prominent.

Why, I wonder, is a site supposedly designed for women's health issues showing vulvas which dont' actually look like real vulvas? (Penis aside - clearly that shouldn't be there at all.)

Ha! Thank you. I was doubting myself there. Some time ago, I had looked at a university magazine I'd once written for, and discovered they'd gotten into trouble for publishing a front page with photos of vulvas (long after I left). Obviously I had a look and never having seen that many vulvas up close, I must admit, I was taken aback at the differences. The same body part, yes, but no two looked the same. What none of them had though, were clitorises that looked like a ... well ... a knobhead.

And in this work of art, three out of eight models of "female" genitals show vulvas with a clitoris that looks like that, and a fourth has another oversized clitoris, while the eighth is a penis. If you set out to show how the same organ may look a little different in many women, then they failed. Twice over. No woman has a penis and an oversized clitoris is not such a common occurrence as to be present in over half of us.

And yes, I'm with Rufus - this shit is offensive and stupid. What elevates it to misogyny is the fact that while the page with male sex organs shows them all sculpted as male sex organs - and granted a name of their own - whereas the page with female sex organs shows them sculpted as female and male sex organs while being denied a name of their own.

It's the double punishment the ideology metes out to women and girls - deny our existence as a class with common interests based on our shared experiences, around which we may organise, deny us the language we need to discuss these shared experiences in the first place.

A double portion of female erasure. In plasticine.

Lordamighty · 08/09/2020 18:51

Who on earth is allowing this claptrap to be taught to young people? Where are all the medically trained professionals, why is no one putting a stop to this idiocy?
Including a picture of a penis and testes on a poster of women’s genitalia is a deliberate lie & they should be called out on it.

RememberBlazinSquad · 08/09/2020 20:41

Who on earth is allowing this claptrap to be taught to young people? Where are all the medically trained professionals, why is no one putting a stop to this idiocy?
Including a picture of a penis and testes on a poster of women’s genitalia is a deliberate lie & they should be called out on it.

It's utter madness isn't it. Those poor kids will be so confused.

BlackWaveComing · 08/09/2020 21:08

@Datun

It looks to me as though they have tried to make the penis and the vulvas as similar as possible, but just on a different scale. Hence the big clitoris.

It's a recurring theme, clitorises and penises being the same thing, just different sizes.

Discussing women's anatomy through the lens of male sex organs makes me almost involuntarily cross my legs.

That's exactly what they've done. Very obvious in the pics of female anatomy + random penis. The penis has been modelled to look as much like a (clitoris-enhanced) vulva as possible.

It's malign.

Deliriumoftheendless · 08/09/2020 21:09

@Clymene

http://theyepproject.org.au/blog/what-they-dont-tell-us-guys-about-sex-campaign/

They do say that some men don't have penises and have a terrible plasticine model of a man in a skirt (please note MNHQ this is on a poster saying that men come in all shapes and sizes) as well as a plasticine person who I assume is supposed to have had a double mastectomy because they have red lines under their nipples.

Is it not Aquaman?
picklemewalnuts · 08/09/2020 21:35

Two things I notice about the tall figure with the muscles...

The bulge in the centre of the shorts, possibly an unfortunate mistake.

The tall muscular figure is centred. Center stage. Right in the center of a piece about women's bodies.

Who must we always center? Remind me again?

tinatsarina · 08/09/2020 21:38

I've asked yacwa on twitter why they have a penis in the vulva picture it will be interesting to see if they reply

SerenityNowwwww · 08/09/2020 21:43

Their posts look very much like a tongue in cheek art school project (says the art school graduate who did a whole project on promoting cannibalism and another on pet food for religious pet owners...)

Clymene · 08/09/2020 22:48

It could be Aquaman I guess. Is he a normal male body? Am not familiar with his oeuvre

SerenityNowwwww · 08/09/2020 23:27

Not sure - part amphibian?

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