Men that don't know what a cervix is

[biddyboo]

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?

Well India Willoughby has one. I believe kept in a jar by the door.

Says so so must be true.

Yes of course. I forgot about India's famous cervix.

Good grief, I'm sure plenty of women on here have had the experience of it taking a minute to get a clear view/angle during a smear test at least once.

Checked at birth? No words.

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

I've heard he's got fallopian tubes too, I think he's been using vouchers.

Yes, a bearded man on X was arguing passionately that IK has a cervix because the doctor observed it at birth.

And we will all have to eat humble pie when he gives birth!

😂

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

Men don’t know much about woman’s anatomy- Tbf a lot of women don’t know much either.

There’s a line in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane where Kath says something like “I knew more about the geography of Africa than my own body.” It’s almost like women’s biology is an unnecessary subject.

Always handy to have spare.

Very true. There was a survey a few years ago that found that something like half of women didn't know where their cervix was. A lot of women, as we've seen on Mumsnet, think that they pee out of their vagina. (Obviously loads of men think that too.) It's all a bit crazy - what on earth do they teach them in schools?

That clip is hilarious though because Butterworth clearly has no clue - as Alex Smith tweeted: "doesn't know what he's talking about but he makes up for it by talking with greater self-assurance."

True that. Here's a woman with her cervix

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.

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

“Mine does, despite having a beard”

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 😁