Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Grow the hell up and deal with medical terminology

http://jezebel.com/5525506/gross-anatomy-disgusting-words-for-lady-products

This poster can't get over the word "speculum".  She thinks it sounds like ooze or something.  It means something doctors use to see inside your vaginal canal and your cervix.  Speculum.  It's not gross.  It's just medical.  Same with the other offending terms, like diaphragm.  Or Pap smear.  Or colposcopy.  

Get over it, please.  Please.  Honestly, if you are acting like a child about medical tools and procedures, or need pleasant sounding names to gloss over the fact that you're dealing with your biological functions, and feel like proper medical terms make you feel icky, is it any wonder that lawmakers feel it's okay to lie to women about their bodies and pregnancies?  Stop acting like an idiot and act like a grown up.  Then maybe people will no longer think it's okay not to treat you like one.

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