Gregory's ServerTo avoid using the word "vagina" is to reinforce the decisions that have been made by social media platforms. To censor it as though it's a dirty word that you shouldn't be saying is to reinforce this taboo. We should be challenging the algorithms, not going with the flow.
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@Mary625 @vagina_museum on TikTok apparently. And on YouTube you can’t get payed for your video if you do say these forbidden words @vagina_museum @Mary625 you’re welcome.  @Mary625 @kite @vagina_museum UK comedian Ben Elton did a TV show in the late 80s / early 90s where he needed to refer to vaginas (specifically, finding out as a young man that sex could make farty noises). The BBC objected to the word, and by committee came up with an acceptable euphemism. I kid you not, it was "tweet-tweet". @_thegeoff @Mary625 @vagina_museum lol. I guess that’s what we nowadays refer to as a toot-toot… @kite @Mary625 @vagina_museum Maude Lebowski said it best: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xs3OWJ53rHE&feature=sharea   @Sibshops @Mary625 @vagina_museum Yah know because it’s democratic to have an algorithm pimping partisan toxic sludge. That’s freedom of expression. After challenging Instagram's decision, the #VaginalCancer hashtag was successfully uncensored. And isn't the fight for information, knowledge, and normalisation a fight worth taking up, even if it's at the expense of a few likes?   My mother would be protesting not using the correct language for parts of the human body. An English professor. Nope. She would have none of that! What an idiotic thing to censor @vagina_museum It's always amazed me, the extent that these algorithms will go to in order to promote what amounts to blunt sexism and objectification. This was never about morality. @vagina_museum did #instagram ACTUALLY stop #censorship towards the #VaginalCancer tag, or did they just claim they did while continuing to #shadowban it? As they've done with so many other tags and subjects they claim to have stopped #banned / #banning yet continue to do so, like #BreastFeeding and #BreastCancer 😠 I mean there's a pad commercial I see all the time that says "scents are for candles, not vaginas". Are we really at the point where the internet itself is becoming more censored than FCC guidelines for television? Shit. @zappes Thank you for fighting this. I hate the censoring of words that need MORE visibility, not less. All to cater to a minority of Victorian Era pearl clutchers. The damage they do by banning such words can be seen clearly when men ask questions like "is my pregnant wife drowning our baby by getting into the tub and preventing her vagina from getting air?" And those questions make me very sad for humanity. |
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Where can't you say, "vagina"?