Althouse: Making the urethra invisible — it's so offensive! They're revealing that holes not usable by penises are nothing.

August 21, 2018

Making the urethra invisible — it's so offensive! They're revealing that holes not usable by penises are nothing.

"Healthline says, using the medical term ‘vagina’ is not gender-inclusive language, uses ‘front hole’ instead. 'It's imperative for safe sex guides to become more inclusive of LGBTQIA and nonbinary people,' the guide states."

An anti-feminist outrage.

For reference: "I Bet You'd Like To Know What Those Holes In The Sides Of Buicks Are Actually Called."

108 comments:

Humperdink said...: Good grief! Seriously??; 8/21/18, 8:28 AM
Ralph L said...: Let's make some pie holes invisible.; 8/21/18, 8:29 AM
rhhardin said...: My first thought was that their hole counting was defective too.; 8/21/18, 8:29 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: 'It's imperative for safe sex guides to become more inclusive of LGBTQIA and nonbinary people,' the guide states."

I'm still having trouble with the acronym thing - LGBTQIA is quite cumbersome.

Can we get a proper definition?

Here's my best guess:

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Queer Incel Assholes

How'd I do? It's like an SAT question.; 8/21/18, 8:32 AM
gspencer said...: Nope, not falling into the stupid.; 8/21/18, 8:32 AM
rhhardin said...: Lady complaining to golf pro

Lady: I got stung by a bee between the first and second holes.

Pro: Well I can tell you your stance is all wrong.; 8/21/18, 8:34 AM
Rob said...: Healthline can stick it up their back hole.; 8/21/18, 8:34 AM
FIDO said...: Never stop an enemy when he is in the middle of making a mistake.; 8/21/18, 8:36 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: If these people had their way we'd end up just another back-hole country.; 8/21/18, 8:36 AM
tcrosse said...: Holistic medicine.; 8/21/18, 8:37 AM
FIDO said...: Lady complaining to golf pro

Lady: I got stung by a bee between the first and second holes.

Pro: Well I can tell you your stance is all wrong.

Okay, that is funny!; 8/21/18, 8:37 AM
Humperdink said...: "Healthline Media, Inc. is a privately owned provider of health information headquartered in San Francisco...." (Wiki); 8/21/18, 8:37 AM
stevew said...: @Bay Area Guy

It seems to me that every time I see that acronym it changes, other than the LG part, of course.

Would it be more accurate, physiologically speaking, to call them 'tubes' rather than holes?

-sw; 8/21/18, 8:38 AM
PackerBronco said...: I prefer the more medically-correct term, "thingy".; 8/21/18, 8:38 AM
Susan said...: As James Wood said, " At least we can still use asshole to describe whoever came up with this. "; 8/21/18, 8:38 AM
robother said...: If fore-fronting the urethra is so important, wouldn't a functional approach be better? The pisshole and the shithole. Front hole and back hole sound like preschoolers talking.; 8/21/18, 8:40 AM
Anonymous said...: But whatever you say about these people, remember, it's ixnay on the ervertedpay and the entallymay illway.; 8/21/18, 8:40 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: The "front hole" discussion resembles the kind of nonsense uttered 45+ years ago in the lounge of my college fraternity house after too many beers.

Liberalism exists on a slippery slope. The slope increases as you push the progressive narrative to its politically correct limits.; 8/21/18, 8:43 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: "The pisshole and the shithole"

And the piehole.; 8/21/18, 8:44 AM
Fernandinande said...: Someone has to post that Simpsons clip of Rainer Wolfcastle explaining holes, whose only natural enemy is the pile.; 8/21/18, 8:46 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: I love it when Progs do this kind of stuff. At the same time I cry out in bafflement and wonder, how do they not see how utterly ridiculous this makes them look to normal people! It’s not the stupidity. Stupid is as common as rain. It’s the relentless doubling down on their own lack of awareness.; 8/21/18, 8:47 AM
Roughcoat said...: Milk, milk, lemonade ...; 8/21/18, 8:49 AM
Ralph L said...: That site is full of anti-Muslim hate speech. Bad!; 8/21/18, 8:50 AM
Roughcoat said...: Cootch, hoo-hah, honey box, chamber of delights ...; 8/21/18, 8:51 AM
Roughcoat said...: Wootchie ...; 8/21/18, 8:51 AM
chickelit said...: Pointing: “Milk, milk, lemonade, ‘round the corner fudge is made”

~Schoolyard wisdom, ca. 1965.; 8/21/18, 8:52 AM
Fernandinande said...: "And as a result, the notion that a penis is exclusively a male body part and a vulva is exclusively a female body part is inaccurate."

That line was also from The Simpsons, but after they went downhill.; 8/21/18, 8:52 AM
TrespassersW said...: How can you parody that? All that's left is to point and laugh.; 8/21/18, 8:58 AM
Paul said...: Can't they just use the word pussy?; 8/21/18, 9:01 AM
JAORE said...: I read that headline to my spouse. She explained what would NOT be taking place if I ever referred to her vagina as her front hole.

The (far) left is full of contradictions. A transgender M to F claims, in one breath, that she is just as real a woman as any ever born that way. At the same time we are not to use standard, scientific, commonly understood terms about her girly parts....

A sub-splinter of a small splinter group insists we change the rules for all, again.; 8/21/18, 9:01 AM
Darrell said...: The English have been calling them "Front Bum" and
"Back Bum" for a Century or more. And you know they know nothing.; 8/21/18, 9:03 AM
traditionalguy said...: Memories of the 1951 Buick Roadmaster. It was a was a true delight to drive with its "Hydra-flow Transmission" and big under inflated tires. And you could sleep stretched out in the backseat. A Straight Eight was as power full as the made engines and it stretched out under the long hood with room to spare.; 8/21/18, 9:05 AM
Hagar said...: /sarc?; 8/21/18, 9:08 AM
tim maguire said...: I knew Healthline wouldn't have a comment section, but I had to check.; 8/21/18, 9:11 AM
tim maguire said...: Darrell said...
The English have been calling them "Front Bum" and
"Back Bum" for a Century or more. And you know they know nothing.

Doesn't "front bum" refer to the breasts? Specifically, when well-endowed women wear low cut tops exposing something that looks very much like butt crack.; 8/21/18, 9:14 AM
Bob Boyd said...: My sister, who counsels troubled teens, had a girl refer to her genitals as "my 'gina n shit".; 8/21/18, 9:14 AM
The Drill SGT said...: On a related note, the British NHS has gotten its knickers twisted scheduling various OB/GYN services for various services for women without vaginas.

Even when you need to ration services, we can't let the women without vaginas feel bad.; 8/21/18, 9:15 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Gay porn is all about holes. Not body parts. Holes. That's all you are to teh gay. A hole.; 8/21/18, 9:17 AM
Kate said...: We roll our eyes now, but in 5 years if you won't bake a "front hole" cake they'll shut down your business.; 8/21/18, 9:17 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Democrats: "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to."; 8/21/18, 9:27 AM
Seeing Red said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/21/18, 9:36 AM
Jane the Actuary said...: Folks, it's worse than that. It's not just this one site. The HRC has a similar "guide" with even more vocabulary, in which we learn that "vagina" is OK if the person in question wants it. Same with male anatomy, in which an unwanted penis is a "strapless." What is not clear to me is whether the folks who speak this way want to impose their terminology on everyone or if the rest of us have just stumbled into it. http://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/Trans_Safer_Sex_Guide_FINAL.pdf; 8/21/18, 9:37 AM
Darrell said...: Doesn't "front bum" refer to the breasts?

No. At least not for normal people.
Btw, "bum"--uncategorized--refers to the vulva/vagina in the UK by default. Be careful using phrases like fanny pack.; 8/21/18, 9:38 AM
Rick said...: 'It's imperative for safe sex guides to become more inclusive of LGBTQIA and nonbinary people,' the guide states."

.. that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.; 8/21/18, 9:39 AM
Jane the Actuary said...: I should add that it's not possible to see how far the crazy goes without getting all manner of search results I don't want. (And I will now see how effective duckduckgo.com is at its promises.); 8/21/18, 9:40 AM
SDaly said...: I say we just change the LGB.... acronym to some word that is equally annoying and useless and slightly easier to pronounce: QUINOA.; 8/21/18, 9:45 AM
mockturtle said...: The idiocy continues and compounds itself.; 8/21/18, 9:48 AM
SGT Ted said...: I don't identify with the notion that women have penises or that men have vaginas. Oh hey, maybe they experience gender dysphoria when correct scientific medical language is used to accurately describe genitalia because thats what they are suffering from and they need to either seek help or just accept that they have what they have down there and get over it.; 8/21/18, 9:54 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: Ha! We were discussing this last night, and my first comment was, "That's not even the front hole."

If someone were giving a sex ed talk and saying "front hole" wouldn't it sound as if the person didn't know enough about the body to be giving a talk on sex ed?; 8/21/18, 9:55 AM
Rick said...: The idiocy continues and compounds itself.

This has to be performance art right? They're testing to see how crazy they can convince people to be?

Like Sacha Baron Cohen's "will you let Trump blow you?" on a much larger scale.; 8/21/18, 9:55 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Stumbled into a video by Ben Shapiro on trannie stuff, and after that, it is hard to take the left seriously in this area. I think that most of us here will agree that the LGB part is real. In many such, we are probably talking in utero brain development, possibly, for males, as a result of insufficient testosterone at certain significant periods of time there. Pretty much every gay guy, and maybe half the lesbians I have ever met, had no real choice. They were always going to be sexually attracted to the same, not opposite sex. And, at least for the guys, that means that you can fairly easily determine sexual orientation by hooking their genitals to sensors, and showing them nude photos of both sexes.

But the rest of it, from "L" onward is problematic. Shapiro pointed out that the suicide attempt rate for trannies is roughly 10x that of the general population - but it doesn't really vary depending on whether they transition or not - it is still roughly 45% either way. Almost half. That says to me that the problem is not what set of genitals they were born with, but rather they have far more serious mental issues. We don't consider bipolar or schizophrenic to be normal, but rather serious mental issues. Why aren't we treating transgenderism the same way? Indeed, these other mental issues are probably more common, but we don't create special pronouns for them, or try to redefine reality to include them. Imagine having to include whether or not someone was or was not bipolar, schizophrenic, etc, along with whether they were cis or trans, gay or straight, male or female, etc. when describing them (and their relative privilege).; 8/21/18, 10:01 AM
Nonapod said...: Recrafting language and cultural norms to placate an anomalous 0.1% of the population seems like an unwinnable scenario. There are endless possible configurations of outliers, not just in the realm of human sexuallity, but in all areas of human behavior.

It's impossible to please all of the people all of the time. It's a fools errand. You'll just end up with a majority who are angry and confused. And you can't conform to an anomaly.

To put it another way, the standard height for door frames is 6'8. But there's a tiny percentage of people who are greater than 6'8 in height. But it would prohibatively expensive to rebuild every door in the world to accommodate that tiny percentage of people.; 8/21/18, 10:02 AM
Trumpit said...: "The idiocy continues and compounds itself."

Yes, you compound your idiocy continuously. We are in full agreement for once.; 8/21/18, 10:03 AM
Rick said...: Why aren't we treating transgenderism the same way?

I'm not sure. I do know that when the LGB... decides we're right they will blame their current actions on LGB...phobia.; 8/21/18, 10:09 AM
RobinGoodfellow said...: The only proper response to this kind of thing is:

“Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.”; 8/21/18, 10:11 AM
Bob Boyd said...: What if you're walking backwards?; 8/21/18, 10:14 AM
Seeing Red said...: and the culture coarsens from the vile Progs again.; 8/21/18, 10:15 AM
Basil Duke said...: "You'll just end up with a majority who are angry and confused." Ah, but that's the entire point: the perpetuation of unresolvable, anger-fueled chaos. You see it every where the left leaves a slime trail: little boys in the little girl's bathroom, windrows of shit on the sidewalk, packs of masked thugs running amok and swinging bike locks at whitey, MS-13 love fests, the free fire zone that is Chicago, 73 "officially recognized" genders, riots every time a cop pops an urban sociopath, check your privilege, etc.; 8/21/18, 10:21 AM
Paddy O said...: "Paging Dr. Backbone to the bajingo ward..."; 8/21/18, 10:22 AM
Darrell said...: Healthline needs to visit porn video sites.
There's a good selection of female peeholes getting fucked by a penis.
And artist brush handles. And "sounds"[disamb. of sonde, probably]. And ...; 8/21/18, 10:23 AM
Sebastian said...: Sarah Jeong hired by the NYT, whitey advice request published by the NYT, now the rebranding of vaginas: are we sure the Russians aren't infiltrating the intertubes to make our prog overlords look ridiculous?; 8/21/18, 10:32 AM
Virgil Hilts said...: What Bruce Hayden said. I think probably 80-90% of people agree with Bruce, but a lot of us would lose our jobs if we said the same thing over lunch at work. I have numerous liberal friends who are actually/honestly confused that anyone thinks political correctness is a problem. I till think PC is the main reason Trump was elected and LGBTQIA activists sure seem to be doing their best to make sure he's reelected.; 8/21/18, 10:36 AM
Rana said...: I thought these were the people who fucking loved science?; 8/21/18, 10:39 AM
Anthony said...: Ha! I did a whole post about Ventiports a few years ago (car blogger here). I took an evolutionary theory perspective on them. There's actually some confusion about where they originated (from WWII airplane exhaust stacks or older cars that had visible exhaust ports, although even some of those were non-functional), but the bit about Nickels' putting them on and providing the idea for the 1949 Buicks is legit.; 8/21/18, 10:42 AM
Caligula said...: The day broke cold and grey. The healthcare clinic opened. "Quack, quack, QUACK!" said the Outrage-bot.; 8/21/18, 10:42 AM
CStanley said...: Healthline has forgotten the first rule of holes.; 8/21/18, 10:45 AM
Darrell said...: I thought these were the people who fucking loved science?

No. They love "science."; 8/21/18, 10:46 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Will the progs be wearing pink front-hole hats at all the protests now?; 8/21/18, 10:47 AM
n.n said...: A baby is not a baby but a clump of cells in pre-human development. A vagina is not a vagina but a cat without a hat. An ass is a donkey that may bray. A mouth is a vuvuzela and genital substitute. The ears and nose are four more holes. This is the Twilight faith, the Pro-Choice religion, and the colors of the transgender spectrum. Keep it separate and weird.; 8/21/18, 10:49 AM
CStanley said...: I think the missing urethra complaint is a bit silly though because the context involves holes used for sexual penetration (um, unless I’m even more naive to this stuff than I think I am, but I don’t think urethral catheters are considered sex toys); 8/21/18, 10:49 AM
PM said...: Healthline's choices feel Soviet.
Perhaps:
Beaver & Reliever
Hoo-hoo & Ha-ha
Peach & Yeech; 8/21/18, 10:53 AM
Rosalyn C. said...: Does calling a vagina a front hole actually make people feel better or have greater emotional peace and clarity? I doubt it. If a presurgery transman has vaginal penetration and achieves an orgasm, what word do they have for that? How do you achieve an orgasm and reject your body at the same time? This is a lot crazier than just calling a vagina a "front hole."

I am sympathetic to those with gender dysphoria but consider it a mental illness that has nothing to do with sexual orientation and really should not be linked with LGB. Trans is a medical issue with serious mental and emotional consequences. For LGB all that is needed is the freedom to accept oneself and love who one loves, and have the same rights as everyone else. With trans there are medical and psychological issues which have nothing to do with sex or love.; 8/21/18, 10:53 AM
Darrell said...: um, unless I’m even more naive to this stuff than I think I am, but I don’t think urethral catheters are considered sex toys)

You'd be surprised. The list of things not used as sex toys might be smaller than those that are. Do a Google image search and think of a thing, then insert the word "porn" after it. You'll be surprised.; 8/21/18, 10:58 AM
n.n said...: now the rebranding of vaginas: are we sure the Russians aren't infiltrating the intertubes to make our prog overlords look ridiculous

The progressive liberals solicited Russians, but they were turned away at the door. So, the progressive liberals returned home and with fear and hatred spread their message. You are nothing but a colorful clump of cells with so many holes. Abort a child for secular incentives, repeat your sins again and again and again, and buy carbon credits. Take pride in who... in what you are.; 8/21/18, 10:59 AM
walter said...: I suppose Dem Bones is due for a rewrite.; 8/21/18, 10:59 AM
n.n said...: Gender is a reference to physical and mental attributes that includes sexual orientation. The best that can be said about homosexuals transgenders is that as individuals they are male and female, masculine and feminine, respectively. They don't require medical corruption and are considered "stable" in that respect. Their transgenderism is realized as an orientation (i.e. bias) and expressed as a couplet, thus the preference for same-sex "marriage" that is exclusive. Bisexuals have a more fluid sexual orientation and are less stable their homosexual peers. It's a transgender spectrum with homosexual privilege.; 8/21/18, 11:09 AM
CStanley said...: Yeah I’m sorry I asked, Darrell and will pass on the google search.; 8/21/18, 11:14 AM
rhhardin said...: Rush: front hole hats.; 8/21/18, 11:21 AM
rhhardin said...: Vagina is sheath in Latin, and gladius is sword, slang for penis. So they have a point about naming for function.; 8/21/18, 11:24 AM
tim in vermont said...: Through the Looking Glass as how-to.

'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'; 8/21/18, 11:26 AM
mockturtle said...: Tim in Vermont @ 11:26: Thank you! So much to love about Lewis Carroll!; 8/21/18, 11:36 AM
Ralph L said...: "Hydra-flow Transmission"

It was the Dynaflow. Olds and Cadillac had the Hydramatic, which was faster but not as smooth, and Chevrolet the 2 speed Powerglide.

On Buicks, you turned the key and then pressed the gas pedal to start the car.; 8/21/18, 11:45 AM
Rosalyn C. said...: @Tim in vermont. Bisexuals are still considered liars, or at least not fully willing to accept their homosexuality. Not that there aren't decent people who have been at one time in their lives homosexual and at another time heterosexual. But if you look at any randomly chosen bisexual support group comment section you will see the homophobia.; 8/21/18, 11:48 AM
pacwest said...: LGBTQIA. What's that mean? I'm confused. And why do lesbians get first position in the alphabet soup?; 8/21/18, 11:53 AM
Darrell said...: And why do lesbians get first position in the alphabet soup?

Ladies first.; 8/21/18, 11:55 AM
Trumpit said...: "I thought these were the people who fucking loved science?"

Why don't you crush your cellphone and computer if you hate science so much? You benefit from science everyday, yet you don't even realize or appreciate it.; 8/21/18, 11:59 AM
JCA1 said...: Here's what I've been wondering. The people who champion the transgender movement are largely the same group of people who claim that gender has no defining characteristics, biological or otherwise. Well, if that's the case, what are people transitioning to? Seems to me that nobody thinks there is a difference between the genders more than a person willing to undergo surgery to change theirs.; 8/21/18, 12:01 PM
Trumpit said...: "Ten years ago bisexuals were all considered liars by gays and lesbians."

You're obviously an expert on liars and lying. You learned well from Schlump.; 8/21/18, 12:02 PM
gahrie said...: LGBTQIA

Lesbian, gay, transsexual, questioning, intersex and asexual.; 8/21/18, 12:07 PM
Tank said...: The first rule of front hole is don't talk about front hole.; 8/21/18, 12:28 PM
Jim at said...: What a stupid time to be alive.; 8/21/18, 12:55 PM
tcrosse said...: Old Redd Foxx joke: Young stupid guy of the type who only exists in dirty jokes gets married. One of the guys at work asks him if he's getting any on the side. He asks if they have a place there, too.; 8/21/18, 12:59 PM
bagoh20 said...: I think we should just go back to "queer". It covered it all, and deals effectively with the crazy needs to roll them all up together, and add new ones all the time, and we would not have to worry about leaving someone out. Besides, there are limits. We only have 26 letters.; 8/21/18, 1:01 PM
bagoh20 said...: I always thought girls peed out their butts. It never came up in conversation, so how would I know any better?; 8/21/18, 1:02 PM
Meade said...: "What if you're walking backwards?"

Offensive! We now say it: "What if you're walking differently directionaled?"; 8/21/18, 1:14 PM
Tommy Duncan said...: So my neighbor wakes up one morning and elects a new gender for the day.

Why is it imperative that I embrace and celebrate his choice?

Is it OK if I tell my kids to stay away from him/her/it...?

Am I required to explain the situation to the UPS guy looking for the home of Mr. Jones?; 8/21/18, 1:17 PM
Rana said...: Trumpit, it's because I do respect science that I prefer to call things by their correct terminology and not the made-up, emotional gobbledygook your side insists we use because feelz.; 8/21/18, 1:32 PM
n.n said...: differently directionaled

That's not unheard of. There is a scientific myth (i.e. circumstantial, inference) that Gaia has reversed her orientation more than once.; 8/21/18, 1:33 PM
n.n said...: I always thought girls peed out their butts.

That's a common confusion. Sexual education conflates holes for pleasure and emotion. Stick to biology for an accurate model of Nature, women, men, and babies, too.; 8/21/18, 1:37 PM
mockturtle said...: Offensive! We now say it: "What if you're walking differently directionaled?"

LOL!; 8/21/18, 1:39 PM
n.n said...: Is it a black hole, a dark hole? The former could be, and has been, interpreted with diversitist overtones.; 8/21/18, 1:41 PM
Real American said...: "grab them by the fronthole" just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Does this mean we have to start calling them "fronthole hats"? Or go see the Fronthole Monologues?

nah. These dumb fronts can't tell their backholes from a hole in the ground.; 8/21/18, 1:45 PM
tim in vermont said...: You're obviously an expert on liars and lying. You learned well from Schlump.

Oooh! Sick burn!; 8/21/18, 2:00 PM
pacwest said...: "LGBTQIA
Lesbian, gay, (bisexual), transsexual, questioning, intersex and asexual."

So what does intersex mean? And how about beastiality? The B was already taken I guess.

It's a mad, mad world.; 8/21/18, 2:07 PM
n.n said...: Bowling balls have three holes. Dark, some may say black holes. No diversity intended.; 8/21/18, 2:11 PM
Ralph L said...: I think it was Saki, before WW I, describing a starched, upperclass lady as "not seeming to have a back channel," which I find more graphic than "hole."; 8/21/18, 2:17 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: have we done "Grab'em by the front hole" yet?
if not, then:
"Grab 'Em By the Front-Hole!"

ok. Now that that's out of the way-- see what I was kvetching about last nite??
Last nite when Double A 'n Meade were sitting in the cafe thinking of cute names for female body parts?
"Hi-Ho". That's what they came up with.
Ok, not bad-- certainly better than 'front hole'
Is it 2 words? Hyphenated? or just one, like Shithead?
This hole thing depends on being upright vs quadrupedal, no? Then it would be "bottom hole" vs "top hole" amirite??; 8/21/18, 3:03 PM
eddie willers said...: One of the guys at work asks him if he's getting any on the side. He asks if they have a place there, too.

Way I heard it:

"Fellow asked me if I was getting any on the side? I said it was so long since I got any, I didn't even know they'd moved it!"

Rimshot!; 8/21/18, 3:22 PM