VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA. VAGINA.
VAGINA.
Seriously, people. Get over it.
Why is the word “vagina” so hard for people to deal with? What’s so threatening about it? Why does American television insist on treating it like a profanity? Network television doesn’t mind using sex to sell their mass-produced shite that nobody needs; but they certainly won’t have us talking about it. It’s as though we discovered the Wizard of Oz’s name was Bill, and forever after the name “Bill” became — well, as taboo as the word VAGINA.
Some Europeans hold the admittedly ridiculous view that all Americans are puerile, right-wing, self-obsessed, sexually repressed nincompoops with no knowledge of geography. When a network decides to pull a tampon advert for using the word “vagina”, you can almost understand why.
I was reading Richard Adams’ blog this morning, where he described a scenario in which an American network pulled a tampon advert by company Kotex in which they used the word “vagina”, presumably in reference to what women use tampons for. Kotex changed the word “vagina” to the phrase “down there”, according to Adams, but this wasn’t sufficient apparently. So, this is what they ended up with:
Admittedly, this is a brilliant advert — even if the area in question is conspicuously lacking. But come on, America! It’s a fucking vagina, more than half the world has one!
For shame, for shame.
