Rape Culture Birthed the Neovag July 16, 2010

Posted by FCM in authors picks Tags: irony

what is a “vagina” in a rape culture?

if we were to abbreviate the narrative of rape so that even a rapist of below-average intelligence could understand it (because they all apparently do) i think we would be left with this: men: ejaculate into a womans vagina, and leave. wouldnt we? a rapist of ANY INTELLIGENCE understands this. rapists who are developmentally disabled understand it. so i think its time that we understand it too. to a rapist, a vagina is nothing more than a sheath for a dick, and a semen receptacle. right? thats all it is. again: a developmentally disabled rapist could get this right, and does. (oh no, am i not supposed to talk about developmentally disabled rapists? is that being ableist? oh well.) speaking of made-up words…

thinking that womens vaginas are really just extra-large condoms for mens dicks is a very, very old tradition. its a problem thats embedded in our language, if that tells you anything. as has been noted elsewhere, “vagina” literally means “sheath.” its so embarrassingly obvious a metaphor that even the editors at medterms.com caught on (well kind of):

The word “vagina” is a Latin word meaning “a sheath or scabbard”, a scabbard into which one might slide and sheath a sword. The “sword” in the case of the anatomic vagina was the penis. Love and war, it would seem, have been connected in the minds of people for millennia.

love, you say? people? sure. the millenia part they got right. this fucked up, reductionist, rape-fantastical thinking about vaginas has been around a long, long time. but we all knew that already. enter transpolitics.

as much as transwomen and transactivists love to pretend otherwise, they just dont get what rape culture is all about. they say they are “against it” to gain feminist cred, but what are they “against” really? they are against born-men having to use mens toilets when they would prefer to use womens, is about all thats to be gleaned from that discussion. oh, and something about poor, transwomen of color sex-workers (which NONE of these internet transactivists actually are, and they dont know any either) who are raped and killed by men. you know, because men thought they were women. they passed! which is exactly what the internet transwomen want for themselves. to pass, i mean. not to be raped and murdered, by men. but therein lies the rub, which born-women know all too well.

because the fact of the matter is that unlike born-women, who have everything (literally, everything) to lose from rape culture, transwomen have at least something (everything?) to gain. to a transwoman, cutting off her dick and turning it (inside out) into a fuckhole between her legs makes her feel better. from transwomens own mouths, we know that these fake fuckholes alleviate transwomens suffering. turning their dicks into extra-large condoms for other men to penetrate (or not, whevs…thats my hat-tip to the internet “lesbian transwomen”) actually tamps down their anxiety, and feelings of dysphoria.

but surgical transition of born-men to MTF transsexuals would not exist if every single goddamned man in the world (including transwomen and their doctors too) didnt already believe that vaginas were just fuckholes, for men. if it werent for rape culture, in which men ejaculate into womens vaginas, and leave. this, in point of fact, is what transwomen have to gain from rape culture:

the neovagina! so while teh menz are consumed with making everything all about themselves, (as usual!) and taking advantage of rape culture (duh) to make themselves feel better, what noone seems to get (and dont care to) is that born-women are actually passing as MTF transsexuals. yes, they are. this is what men see, when they look at us: castrated men with a fuckhole between our legs, who feel more feminine than any born-woman ever does.

and men theorize from here, when they theorize about us. doctors treat THIS, when they are treating us. men are fucking THIS when they are fucking us. this is what men are raping, when they rape us. this is what a vagina is, in a rape culture. this is rape-culture in one fucking frame. ONE FRAME! a political cartoonist couldnt abbreviate it any better, or more concisely.

we are passing as them. hows that for “delicious irony?” (thats my hat-tip to the fucking internet drama-queens who get off on trite, privileged bullshit such as “irony”). its so delicious i feel like i just ate a pound of shit, then threw it up, and ate it again. if i really wanted to give myself heartburn, i would continue on about the narrative of PIV being identical to the narrative of rape (dont believe me? watch this). but i will leave well enough alone, for now.