Zimmerman: Right, vaginas are only properly activated by penises, by means of some kind of cervical toggle switch.
In this, the brilliant hate-read of Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A New Biography.
(UGH.)
Also, my favourite passage from Ariel Levy's New Yorker review: "Wolf claims that vaginal slander - referring to the vagina by its ‘awful' feline moniker, for instance - ‘apparently affects the very tissue of the vagina.' She bases this conclusion on a study of female rats whose vaginal tissue showed signs of change after periods of stress. The experiment did not, however, entail researching yelling ‘Rat pussy!' at the animals; stress was manufactured physically. Wolf's interpretation of the science is, as usual, rather free."
"Look, I’m not going to pussyfoot around the subject or clam up just because of this theory — obviously full of gaping holes — that invoking its name might snatch my ability to write. Come, now." Bahahahahahahha! Funniest thing I've read in ages.
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