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?

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.

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!

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?"

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.

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 !

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

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

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 😳

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

😂😂😂

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.

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.

My DH knows. I’m quite impressed. I’m not sure I’d be able to label and define all his plumbing.

Me too

Terrifying isn’t it…

Cervix does in fact mean neck. That’s why we all - men and women- have a cervical spine

My dh knows but mostly because he was there when I gave birth and it failed to dilate and the midwives kept poking it to see if it had dilated yet (to my extreme distress!)

He might have known before then but definitely knows now.

I think if a man who has kids doesn't know, you can bet he wasn't a good birth partner (if he was a birth partner at all)

Friend of mine tried to insert a tampon up her urethra. Didn't know she had a vagina. She was 13 and it was 1970. Seems not much progress has been made according to some of the posts here

I was going to say the same - I’d expect a man whose partner had given birth to know what the cervix is.

I went to a girls grammar school in the 1960s.

Biology was compulsory for the first three years. It started with simple beings (amoeba) and got as far as cockroaches. That's as far as my formal biological education went.

O level Biology was for the top set, Human Biology was for the lower set. I chose Physics and Chemistry.

Our total sex education consisted of one lesson from the Headmistress (who had a degree in Biology) about STIs. I probably didn't hear "cervix" mentioned until I was pregnant.

FFS, they knew in the 17th century that there were three holes - and in "they" I'm including men.

There was this expression for women being shagged, which they thought hilarious, derived from naval warfare - "shot twixt wind and water".

We've managed to go backwards.

I teach Year 6 sex ed and ALL my class know what a cervix is!
We have a box for anonymous questions at the end of each session and one said ‘Girls. Three holes? Really?’ So we went over things again…

"We have a box for anonymous questions at the end"

I love this! Great idea.

well I asked DP and he said
'its the opening to the womb'
'yeess...but can you be a bit more precise?'
'well, its.... (makes curving gesture with hand, accurately describing the shape of a cervix)...its why a cap works'
can't say fairer than that

Dp's effort was 'the bit at the top they scrape for a smear rest, right?', well yes dear, not a completely correct definition, but not bad.