wahoo, XKCD

I love the webcomic xkcd and wanted to share today’s edition. The premise is a set of images of the human body, presumably for an anatomy textbook. The gag is the photo session is taking place at a TGI-Friday’s and fellow customers are less than thrilled with the naked photo session by the salad bar.(If you go to the site, make sure to read the pop-up text when your mouse pauses over the image. Randall’s commentary is usually just as funny as the comic itself.)

Here’s the cool part, the first two panels of the comic are about the female body: a female breast with the nipple and areola labeled, a close-up of female genitals wtih the clitoris, vagina and both labia labeled. 

I imagine making a feminist statement wasn’t necessarily the artist’s main objective. But in a world where references to female genitalia are seen as incredibly taboo ("dick" is sometimes acceptable, but "vagina" or "pussy" are perceived as REALLY raunchy) I think it’s a pretty cool occurrence.  One small step for vaginas, one giant leap for vagina-kind.  Or something like that.