I had to share with you Twisty's latest gem of a turned phrase in her recent post, "Study of the Week: ‘Foreplay’ Scientifically Proven Unnecessary". The whole post is hilarious, but this line almost made me fall out of my chair in a convulsive fit of laughter:
This oeuvre seems to exclude any definition of sex that is not “penetration,” and investigates ways in which men may keep women fuckable through treatment of a condition called dyspareunia. Dyspareunia — the Pedantic Male Honky term for any condition, physical or psychiatric, that interferes with intercourse — “afflicts” as many as 48% of all women (though hardly any men at all). Is anyone surprised that white dudes define half the female population’s natural abhorrence for interminable drunken prong-a-thons as either a neuropathic disease or a mental illness?
She's right. All these studies that come out baseline men as the "norm" and women as deviants from that norm. Reminds me of all the infertile gals I used to talk to in the fertility clinic waiting room who were pissed off that they had to pay for their own Clomid to ovulate but god forbid men should have to pay for their own erectile dysfunction. Every insurance provider in the free world pays for V*agra. (Including Medicaid, which provides six V*agra a month. Wouldn't you like to have been sittin' around in the meeting with the crusty, old fart b'crats who thunked that number up? "Eh, we don't have enough money to pay for children's multivitamins or womens birth control anymore, but we gotta take care of these poor impotent dudes. I mean, jeezus, can you imagine having to live like that? Oh, howsabouts we let them get laid now and again? Say, five or six times a month sound okay to everyone?") Women are still fighting for their own reproductive freedom, while it has become practically a constitutional amendment that men have the inalienable right to get off at any cost. Anyway, another Twisty post that had me laughing my ass off as usual.
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