Just thought of this post while reading Julia Serano's _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_. She notes how slang for genitals is part of our sexist culture: "When someone is bold or brave, we say they have 'balls,' while words like 'pussy' and 'cunt' are only ever spoken as insults." Some of the women I interviewed replaced balls with ovaries--i.e. hanwisi has _some ovaries_ standing up for paganism, helping to redress biases among medical practitioners, and generally being a cool riotgrrl. For me the shrub will alway be a prick.
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