Another term used is (was?) “The Little Man in the Boat”… which is about as male-centric as you can get when describing it.
If only it were that simple.
I think the scientific community fumbled around frantically looking in small bursts of interest for a couple of minutes at a time, but then lost interest and took a nap. Few had the tenacity to keep looking for the whole 2000 years.
Yeah, it’s not great.
But then, the only thing that comes to mind when I look at this is:
“Fleshy wishbone of pleasure”.
Not a very snappy name. I don’t think it’s going to catch on.
I found it astounding that at no point did she mention the role that women not being allowed to be doctors for most of the past 2000 years has in this. For people below a certain age I don’t think that is so obvious.
The title could just as well be, it took science/medicine 2,000 years to listen to women. (not that its particularly good about it now
Victorians were actually obsessed with sex and sexuality…
Bitches be lyin’ after all…
To be fair, there were a fair number of women who were scientists, but historians of science also tend to be pale and male, so it’s only more recently that we’re learning about the contributions made by women to science over the centuries… one example…
Sorry, it was 50 years ago, no.
I’m suddenly thinking of the expression, “The situation has gone pear-shaped.” I’m struggling to think of what a situation would be like that’s gone “clitoris-shaped.” Now’s the opportunity to define that particular expression, I guess…
That’s not even really a joke, given the whole 19th century history of vibrators as a treatment for “nervous disorders” and women’s orgasms not being acknowledged as such, written off as “hysterical paroxysms.”
Now it just ignores them entirely. At least that’s the standard operating procedure when it comes to medical research. It’s done on male animals, under the assumption that male is the “default” state and females are just males with some extra, messy hormones thrown in. Needless to say, biology doesn’t work that way.
Well, to be “fair,” there’s a difference between knowing and caring. Given how many heterosexual men actively hate women, and how many more are regular ol’ self-centered misogynists…
No doubt the inspiration for Hypatia Lee’s performing name.
Oh, they don’t hate us really… they just don’t want us to get above our station in life… It makes them feel small… /s
You just had to bring up a porno actor, huh?
Only tangentially on topic… at best, amigo.
I think that particular passage may have had white out applied and someone penned in “crave”.
There is a lot of truth to this, unfortunately, especially for rodent research
As it happens though, 95% of my experiments are limited to female animals. Not related to the thread; insects don’t have a clitoris
I’ve heard that up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A works like a charm…
