१९ जून, २०१४

Vogue Knitting rereleased a popular 1991 sweater, and on Facebook, people are calling it the "Vagina Sweater."

An emailer tells me. Here's the sweater:



Looking for the Facebook mentions, I stumbled onto this unrelated story about "vaginal knitting" performance art:
"I'm spending 28 days knitting from wool that I've inserted in my vagina," the Melbourne-based artist explains in the video [at the link]. "Everyday I take a new skein of wool that's been wound so that it will unravel from the centre and I stick it up inside me... and then I pull out the thread and knit."
Wool! Wool itches. I'd recommend silk yarn for your vaginal knitting art stunts.
[T]he performance project aims to address taboos surrounding female genitals and a woman's body in general...  [Feminist artist Casey] Jenkins... promises to work non-stop during the days she's knitting, come hell or high water... or menstruation.
The menstruation is the best part. And it makes me want to see the Vagina Sweater done with some color variations. Also, I think the term should be "Vulva Sweater." I'd like to address the taboo against confining "vagina" to its proper place.

५१ टिप्पण्या:

jimbino म्हणाले...

How about "pudenda sweater"?

Meade म्हणाले...

All I see is a lot of cigars.

Kelly म्हणाले...

I see leaves.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Uh oh. Most of my ties have a smaller version of that pattern. Egad, I am ridiculing women everyday with a tie pattern.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Tragically, it would have to be a hairless sweater for the name to be appropriate.

God damn it.

Peter

mccullough म्हणाले...

The coat hangers were creepy.

rcommal म्हणाले...

I wonder how large a skein of yarn that performance artist was using.

rcommal म्हणाले...

Hey! How about a sweater done in various cigar-colors schemes? Could be entertaining.

Rockport Conservative म्हणाले...

I am definitely with you on the vagina placement. When did the younger generation start thinking it referred to the whole nether region? A few anatomy lessons are in order.

Birches म्हणाले...

And I agree about the misuse of vagina. I blame Kindergarten Cop.

George M. Spencer म्हणाले...

Perfect thing for President Obama.

Ron म्हणाले...

I'm workin' on a booger fedora....

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"When did the younger generation start thinking it referred to the whole nether region?"

I think Howard Stern used it a lot, affecting a kind of low-class guy slang. After a couple decades of that, why should the word even have the limitation that belongs in the medical books. It's like the way we call our entire abdomen our "stomach," as in saying that a pregnant woman has a "huge stomach."

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Someone corrected me the other day about the word "nipple," saying it shouldn't be used to include the areola. I think that's silly.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Nevertheless, I can't accept "vagina" for "vulva." I think it sounds really ignorant, like something a teenage boy would say if it was all uncharted territory.

n.n म्हणाले...

I see fallen leaves creating rippling waves on the water's surface.

I wonder what pattern the designer envisioned.

khesanh0802 म्हणाले...

GAG!!!

Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...

Forget the Vagina Monologues. That's the whole damn Vagina Debating Society.

fivewheels म्हणाले...

Maude Lebowski: "My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina."

Some women too, it seems.

Michael K म्हणाले...

Ugh ! I kind of liked the sweater until I read the piece.

One reason we used to explain to women that they weren't invited to go on long sail boat races was because they had to be hosed off from time to time.

Sounds like an idea whose time has come again.

Peter म्हणाले...

It's just getting so hard to be transgressive, yet that's all that seems to count in the art world.

What's a performance artist to do?

mccullough म्हणाले...

Teenage boys call the vagina and vulva/pudenda pussy. And call the breasts, areola, and nipples tits. Translating these slang terms back to officialese has conflated nipple and areola, as well as vulva vagina.

effinayright म्हणाले...

While "vagina" might not be the appropriate anatomical term, Somehow I think calling it a "Pudenda Sweater" lacks a certain je ne sais quois....

FleetUSA म्हणाले...

Remembering the Judy Chicago Dinner Party exhibition.

Meade म्हणाले...

I got 2 tickets for tonight's performance of The Vagina Monologues. Why don't you wear your new Vulva Sweater?

Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) म्हणाले...

'Vagina' is merely the Latin word for 'pocket'. An amoeba flows to surround its food in a pocket, and that process is logically called 'invagination'.

SJ म्हणाले...

I see the pattern after you mention it.

But otherwise, meh. I don't feel a need to bring it up.

However, I am reminded that ancient Roman gladiators used the word "vagina" to describe the leather sheath used to protect the "gladius", when the gladiator was not using his gladius in the arena.

The gladius, of course, being a piece of forged steel with a handle and about 24 inches of blade. Used by gladiators to wound/kill animals or other gladiators.

I can't recall whether extension of the word "vagina" to a portion of female genitalia came before or after Western European doctors started using Latin for anatomy.

SGT Ted म्हणाले...

What is with female "performance artists" and their the toddler like focus on their vagays?

Bob Ellison म्हणाले...

That's stupid.

SweatBee म्हणाले...

Looks more like alligator eyes to me.

Kirk Parker म्हणाले...

Michael K.,

" they had to be hosed off from time to time.
"

The sailboats, or the women?

lemondog म्हणाले...


X.pose dress disappears as you share information online


X.pose video

Austin म्हणाले...

Dolores!

rhhardin म्हणाले...

My favorite headline, from the Morris County Record I think, Feds Sue Hooker To Clean Love Canal.

Kirk Parker म्हणाले...

rhh:

Hey, we had a Hooker Chemical plant here in Tacoma, WA! (Since sold to someone else, I forget who.)

Biggest news about them was when the plant manager applied for a vanity plate reading HOOKER and was denied for obvious-to-bureaucrat reasons.

Bob Ellison म्हणाले...

rhhardin, RINGS AROUND URANUS BELEIVED TO BE GASEOUS.

Arizona Republic, around 1980.

David म्हणाले...

Edsel.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Nietzsche said women are like sailing ships, an effect of distance.

Beautiful far away, noisy up close.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

A vagina is a sort of absent referent anyway.

Mark O म्हणाले...

Ew.

chickelit म्हणाले...

"Sweater puppies" are a man's best friend, but "sweater pussies" double down on entendre.

chickelit म्हणाले...

SGT Ted said...
What is with female "performance artists" and their the toddler like focus on their vagays?

Perhaps they're trying to counter the notion that many artists act like dicks.

TDP म्हणाले...

"[T]he performance project aims to address taboos surrounding female genitals and a woman's body in general..."

The 70s called and wants its political rhetoric back.

The early 2000s texted that there are no "taboos surrounding female genitals ..." anymore so get over yourself.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"Ugh ! I kind of liked the sweater until I read the piece."

Huh? They're 2 different things!

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I suspect what the artist knitted wasn't too pretty

William म्हणाले...

I always thought that a vulva was a Swedish vagina.

jaed म्हणाले...

In British English, "wool" means what we mean by "yarn". "Sheep's wool" would be "wool yarn".

I'm not sure whether this is also true in Australia, but it's possible she wasn't actually sticking wool up her hoohah. (I realize the prospect is not greatly improved if she actually was sticking a skein cotton yarn up there.)

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

The Day Casey and Amanda Stopped Being Friends

"Hey, Amanda! I knit this sweater for you."
"Wow! You knit a sweater for me?! Thanks! Interesting color. Sort of ombre."
"Let me tell you how I made it..."

SeanF म्हणाले...

Bart Hall (Kansas, USA): 'Vagina' is merely the Latin word for 'pocket'.

"Originally," perhaps, but not "merely." It is also an English word, and in English it has a much more specific meaning than "pocket".

Norah म्हणाले...

Bark, dears, the pattern was meant to emulate the bark of a tree.
sigh :)

rcommal म्हणाले...

Whatever the intended, that is not the point, Norah

That's the point.