Guh. It’s creepy. Like one of those air freshener adverts…”No one likes to come home to a stinky vagina – especially if you’re entertaining unexpected guests. Let the clean scent of Mountain Spring into your vaj. Douching doesn’t just cover up bad odours, it eliminates them…”

Goddammit, some things just aren’t meant to smell like Island Splash!

- Jesswa

PS “Cunt” is an awesome word I’m desperate to de-dirty. Cuntastic article, mlawski. ^^

I accidentally posted this in a different comment thread, but I’ll shorten it and add it here.

I think “douchebag” describes a guy who is not sexually desirable to women (or at least to a woman with standards), but who thinks and acts like he is.

Similarly to how a douche claims that women want to put it in their vaginas when they do not. There are few things that scream “Get away from my vagina, yuck! Unsexy!” like a douche or sex with Sean Hannity.

And the analogous word on the other gender is “cumdumpster” — except it is much fouler and reflects the double standard — women who have sex with lots of men are sluts, but men who don’t have sex with lots of women are weak.

And I think the word “douche” is funny because it is a very rare sort of word — a patriarchal word that is yonocentric rather than phallocentric.

Oh, other words that reinforce the partiarchal double-standards and other rules revolve around female genitalia, but “douchebag” is the rare insult that is on the vagina’s side and lines up with its interests.

So, there’s an irony to that and a surprise, and it makes people laugh.

I read the subtext as “Now, like a good man, you’re supposed to have sex with lots of women and be able to control them and treat them like objects. But goddammit, they don’t like you, because you are a douche. So shut up until you can act in a way that makes a vagina happy and want to be around you.”

A rare, sweet-smelling sentiment from the patriarchy.

This is why I’m an atheist.

And on the general subject of misogynistic language, I would be remiss without pointing everyone to this classic from the Public Service Administration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euu_DMhsXQo

I’m rather fond of “asshat” myself and use it frequently.

While I do say “bitch” and “douche,” I’m averse to the “c” word. I feel like its origin is too derrogitory to be acceptable. I do NOT think it’s cool for African-Americans to use the “n” word for the same reason, so I’d be a hypocrite if I used the “c” word. I’m Native American, and I don’t like it when other Natives (and of course white people) say the “RS” word. “Indian” isn’t so bad- we call Reservations “Indian Country” and “tribal law” and “Indian law” are more or less synonymous; but “RS” was too mean in its origin for it to be acceptable, in my opinion.

And I too didn’t know what a douche really was until college, either…

-Chad McDouche
President, International Broheemhood of Douchebags