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?

As a crazy cat lady I fully support the ability to have Serval spare cervixes!

I am more than 50. I know where my cervix is. I have touched it, in fact, though not seen it. Can't remember when I learned about it. Probably when pregnant - or possibly drawings showing the menstrual cycle - I did human and general biology at school.

Does the womb have a view?

Of balls

More men need to be told that cervix-bashing is not necessarily something women like … but I suppose much of what they view on screens would not give this impression 😡

Well I know where my cervix is. Did biology and human biology and watched the scary giving birth film and all. But I think the logic during my schooling days was the girls needed to know about reproduction and biology and men did not. At least he is claiming no formal schooling in biology. (To be fair he does understand Physics and I do not). Most importantly he straight up admitted he did not know where it was. Which is better than a lot of men it seems.

This is always why I tell men that length isn’t the size women think matters. It just hits the cervix and is uncomfortable.

I'm male, aged 66. Never studied biology or chemistry (except as general science - only physics as a separate science subject) but we covered human sexual reproduction and male and female reproductive anatomy in what was called "Sex education" in either first or second form at secondary school in 1970 or 1971. So I'd have been aged somewhere from 11 to 13?

Must that have been some groundbreaking and revolutionary idea and everything's gone backwards since then?

I've learned that a surprising number of men seem to think that women can start and stop our periods when we want, that is, like holding pee.

"Separates the upper fanny from the lower fanny" 🤣

He’s getting ‘cervix’ mixed up with ‘Duchess of Sussex’.

I got the same answer from my DH—knowing it was where smear samples were collected, but not knowing it’s actual job.

Only posh ones, you know women who have a second one in Tuscany or Cannes.

I was teaching a VI form class doing a 'Health and Social Care' course. They had to create and deliver a health campaign and had chosen 'contraception'.

When they were researching the cap one asked, "What happens if you need to go for a pee?"

My initial, not very profession reaction was, "you have three holes".

I stopped the lesson to draw female anatomy.

Some women seem a tad unclear, to be honest ...

There's an old man I know who just had a scan for cervical myelopathy. Does he have a cervix, and if not, where is the myelopathy?

Just saying.

In the cervical spine. The word cervical derives from neck, and is used for both the neck of the uterus and the neck the head sits on.

Is this supposed to be a clever gotcha that men can have cervixes lol... myelopathy is a spinal condition, the "myelo" bit means spine I believe.

Did you think your friend had a problem with his womb?? What did you say to him?

"Just saying"! You could have googled it.

Edit - my point is, the answer to "where is the myelopathy" is always spine, it just means "spine problem".

😂😂😂😂

I think pp might think a molar pregnancy is where the embryo grows in your teeth.

Both DH and DS17 do. I also made sure to reach DS that women don't urinate from their vagina as that seems to be another thing a lot of people don't know 😬

Well, when I asked Google to look for #buttergasp gif guess what came up first?

So I am none the wiser! 😂

This is what came up for me when I googled "Buttergasp". I can't remember now what occasioned the gasp:

https://tenor.com/view/benjamin-butterworth-buttergasp-gasp-bigotry-butterworth-gif-22921287

Oh wow, the gasp was in response to the statement from Bev Jackson that "We don't believe anyone can be born in the wrong body."

https://x.com/hatpinwoman/status/1306859372602064897?lang=en

My man didn't know, until I told him. I mean - it's not something that is taught in school, and unless you have a partner going through pregnancy and birth it doesn't tend to come up in conversation much.

But - if you're intending to talk about it, and use it to attempt to prove a point, then it does behove you to actually find out what it is you are talking about first to avoid looking like a complete tit on TV.

Oh well, sad for that man. What a wally.

That gasp is so overblown and ludicrous 🤣