Comments on: My Cervix is Not Male, Thankyouverymuch

By: Wilhelmina

Wilhelmina — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:12:10 +0000

… so creepy. having a strange person open me up with a speculum is awkward and uncomfortable enough, having them childishly talk to my CERVIX would make things so much worse.

By: Ana

Ana — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:22:45 +0000

Yes, in portuguese the word ‘cervix’ is also masculine. But what the hell, that puppy talk is REALLY weird and creepy to say the least! I’d never come back there!

By: mivox

mivox — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:07:43 +0000

Holy crap… that’s really creepy, and seems really unprofessional too. My cervix will not “look” at you because IT HAS NO EYES.

Even if she’d referred to it as female it’d still be amazingly creepy.

By: Nell Gwynne

Nell Gwynne — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:20:58 +0000

That? Is weird. Mine was pretty awesome. “When I went in for my first pelvic exam, it was with my mom’s doctor, and he was eighty, and I felt so uncomfortable”. Plus, there were pictures of rainbows on the ceiling. Planned Parenthood ROCKS.

By: twg

twg — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:06:52 +0000

If you need a gyno around here, let me know. I really like mine; she’s nice and relatively young.

By: Miss Quickley

Miss Quickley — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:47:34 +0000

… Was she French?
In French, all nouns are gendered, and the expression for cervix, “col de l’uterus” — uterine collar, is masculine, because a collar is masculine. Which I guess is a whole other flavour of loaded. German has a masculine, a feminine, and a neutral, and in the little bit I learned in university, there’s not a lot of obvious rhyme or reason to what sorts of nouns get what gender — some things in French that are feminine are masculine in German and vice-versa.

My point being, it could be a linguistic hiccup. Although the puppy talk would weird me out. I’ve always been a bit off-put whenever a lover would refer to my genitalia as “It” — as though it was being separated some how from “Me.”

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:24:26 +0000

OMG, even I think that’s creepy.