Losers :D

My vagina is writing a paper on medieval popes right now.

I wish I had a vagina. :( May I borrow one of yours?

Wow, these guys totally have me pegged.

Awesome.

tee hee.

im excited for some other letters to be posted!
(actually wiggling in my seat)

I should have had my vagina write my exams this week!

Has she learned how to operate a French press yet?

I just glad my vagina told me that the contraction for you are is "you're".

I obviously haven't been getting enough mileage out of my magical vagina.

Ha ha ha! TOO funny! I'm going to teach my vagina to do the dishes.

Awwww, poor, poor men. They have to act like they're interested in us to get into our pants.Wah fucking wah.

Isn't this line illuminating:

"And even if a woman does have some of those qualities it is likely that 90% of people are still just going to be interested in the sex."

Women aren't people. Good stuff.

My vagina is going to drive me home right now. Good little vagina.

An anal bitch! My favorite compliment!

Hmmm. I guess when I run and row, I'm using my vagina. And my magical sex organ will do all my studying for my calc exam.

Why doesn't my vagina do all the cool things that the rest of your vaginas seem to do? Damn it! I hae a defective vagina!!! I demand a new one! Ha.

I know I should find this amusing, but really I'm just horrified that there's actually people out there that think this way.

My mind boggles. I guess I'll just never understand the mentality of a hate-mongerer...

I love how in the same breath the guy complains that women use the fact that they are women to make their lives easier (read to get men to give them stuff), and then goes on to state that it doesn't matter if the woman has other traits, because men only want sex anyway.

And I personally love the mental image of performing everyday tasks with your vagina. I'm picturing someone standing on a step ladder, naked, over the sink, working the soapy scrub brush on the dirty dishes. Hee.

Seriously, what does this guy expect the all powerful magical vagina to do? I'm going to teach mine how to track medical recalls. That will make me much more efficient at work.

norbizness,

I hadn't thought of it, but using a French press would be like doing kegels, right?

*runs off to buy coffee and a French press*

Looks like someone's got a bad case of vag-envy!

He must have seen our secret displayed on the Wal-mart panties and realized just how much of a little moneypot the vag is!

Wow, since my vagina's so busy making my life easier, I guess I'll never have time to let men use it for sex. Too bad!

I keep telling the other baristas that if they would just let my vagina help out with the coffee making, we'd get twice as much done, but they mumble something about an "unfair advantage," yawn, and then ask if we can have sex.

You know, as much as the sentiment 'who needs money when you have a vagina' boggles the mind, the attitude is very pervasive. I can cite 2 examples from my recent past, and I'm sure everyone has a few of their own.

First is "witty" phrases on clothing. The Wal-Mart panties are one example. I also remember seeing a Tshirt at Fashion Bug with the phrase 'I [heart] his $$' written in rhinestones and glitter.

The other was more personal and I have never been able to forgive my father for saying this to me. When I was just out of college I was really strapped for cash. My roommates had moved out early, leaving me holding a lease that I couldn't afford. I needed to get a less expensive living arrangement, but because I was shelling out so much in rent, I couldn't come up with a security deposit for another apartment. In desperation I called my parents (the one and only time I have ever done so). My father's response? 'Don't you have a boyfrind?' If the response had been we don't have the money to spare, I would have been ok with that, but no, my father basically told me that if I needed financial help (or in this case a place to live) I should just grab the first guy I see.

My husband has been arguing for a week with a guy on YouTube (alias: Verlch) about this very topic. I tired of him very quickly, as he makes up stats and basically just spews hatred, but my husband has been having lots of fun shooting down all of his "points". If you feel like playing with him, he has a Blogspot in which he calls himself "Patriarch Verlch". http://www.verlch.blogspot.com/

Wow. It takes a special kind of misogyney to be able to so blithely state such obviously *negative* parts about being female as, somehow, advantageous. I'm impressed.

Eris Eruvande, yeah that guy used to be a troll here. Pathetic.

I'll remember my vagina making my life easier while I'm curled up with cramps this weekend. Maybe then the cramps would turn into Daniel Craig and TRULY make my live easier.

My Maatha's vagina is made out of pure gold.

(Cameron Diaz in "In Her Shoes."

I am really looking forward to reading more highly intelligent letters or letter excerpts throughout the day. I will be spending the day writing a lengthy paper about the use of body manipulation as a protest function, a voice when women are silenced. These messages will no doubt add an otherwise absent poignancy to my piece.

I like how he says "90% of people", when he means "90% of men". Sums up his attitudes, I'd say.

I hate this attitude. My vag doesn't make my life easier... I can go hungry with a vag just as easily as with a penis, and according to statistics, it's actually more likely.
I hate how, whenever I mention I'm having financial difficulties, people ask, "Well, get your boyfriend to help you out."
Argg!!

Well, it's good when the enemy outs himself, even if he isn't ready to face up to his own fear.

somehow they have been given as status in society that all they need is a vagina to get by,

Right, and that's the kind of thing feminists are fighting, hence why we tried to get the panties pulled. If guy wasn't so blinded by his hatred of women, he'd realise we actually agree on this issue.

all they need is a vagina to get by

I must say, I have not found this to be the case. I got into college, and not once on the application did it inquire after my vagina. Same with graduate school. Not once in my generalist exams, my quals, or my dissertation defense, for that matter, was I able to use my vagina to get a free pass. Now I have a job, and apparently they still expect me to do work! When will my magical vagina get-out-of-work free card kick in?

I can't post an image on this site, but this reminded me of this old but good poster: Click here to see it.

Now doesn't that vagina make your lives just so much easier? Sort of justifies lower salaries because everything is so much cheaper because you can just sweet-talk prices down, right?

Man, that confirms for me ... my vagina needs to start pullings its own weight around here! It can start with the dishes and then it can get a part-time job to cough up its percentage of the rent.

Sometimes I think of how much easier life would be if I just lost all of my identity and dignity and became some guy's whore-for-rent in return for nice things. It would certainly be easier to just marry some fugly rich dude than to worry about work visas, rent, having enough at the end of the month, and so on ... but I couldn't do that. I couldn't be happy with myself and do that. I couldn't be proud and do that. I get much more satisfaction doing things on my own than I would to be helped even 10% by someone else, no matter how frustrating it can be.

And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way.

So there, Random Asshole Guy.

Even though this attitude is really discouraging, what we are all doing with our vaginas is very awesome. Papers on medieval popes, exams,operating a French press, using proper grammar, studying calculus, tracking medical recalls, doing the dishes, making coffee, writing papers about the use of body manipulation as a protest function...I hope I didn't leave anything out. Our vaginas are doing amazing things everyday. Mine just secured me an interview for medical school. I'll be sure to let my male applicant friends what they were missing.

What's so incredible about this stupid guy's letter is not only that he says that vaginas essentially suck away all of women's intellectual powers, but that I'm pretty sure my vagina doesn't get me jack shit.
Now, my boobs have gotten me things before. My butt may have changed guys' opinion of me. But my vagina? How would that work? You're checking out at the store and realize you forgot your credit card, so you pull up your skirt, spread 'em, and say, "check it out! Wanna foot the bill?" to the cashier? It doesn't seem too likely that this would happen. So really it's mens' expectation that we have vaginas that creates this difference, and not actually possessing a vagina itself.
Whoever wrote this letter is an idiot who obviously doesn't have a girlfriend or any female friends at all. After all, we are all uninteresting sex objects.

So...it's women's fault men only like them for sex?

That's a scary argument when stripped away. But hey, our legal system agrees, obviously, with all the victim blaming in rape cases lately.Sad how pervasive this argument is getting to be.

And I'd say talking to a woman is far more interesting than a man who, according this this dude, is only going to be able to talk about my vagina and getting my pants off. Maybe women's "blandness" is simply them ignoring you as you drone on about their magic vaginas!

Now to me, this is just frightening and incredibly depressing. Woman-hatred isn't even shamed. People embrace and accept it!

But this loser's email says a lot more about him than it does about women. He hates half the population and blames us for it because we somehow have the power to "make" people like him (men) do whatever we want them to do. [Which is such obvious bullshit but that's besides the point]

He admits that the only thing appealing about women is their bodies. I can just see him hate-fucking some unsuspecting woman now.

I mean, does this man not have a mother, a sister, ONE female friend he loves? Or does he find all the women in his life repulsive and hateful? God. I hope he never raises a child.

I just demanded: "I have a vagina, make my life easy and give me freebies", and it totally worked. Right in the hallway here at work. Totally. The rest of you must be in some alternate universe where vaginas don't work like they're supposed to.

@burbank

I have that picture in pin-form on my backpack! I love it. A lot of good convos have been started from that :)

When I crank my left arm my vagina releases a handfull of M&Ms. Yessss!

Wouldn't they get melty?

"Women constantly use their vagina to make their lives easier."

LOVE the noun/pronoun disagreement! Then again, this guy might be stupid enough to believe that all women share one collective vagina.

Geeky_girl, no, of course not. They melt in your mouth, not in your vagina.

OMG Sarah MC, ROFL!!! My vag is currently whipping up garlic couscous with zucchini and tomatoes! I am so lucky that my vagina is a great chef!

I especially liked "I mean seriously what can you talk to a woman about?"

Seriously, what CAN you talk to a women about? As we are just walking vaginas, I believe? There are no ears there! Q. E. effing D.

The sad thing is this guy will probably not talk to any women to actually invalidate his opinion, I expect. That's his loss.

@kissmypineapple
D'oh, how could I forget!