Women smell!

Last night my fiance and I were watching the Bill Maher documentary "Religulous". I won’t speak too much about the content of the doc itself, but just of a comment that Bill said during that bothered me.

He was speaking of the absurd tales of the Bible, specifically the one where Jonah gets swallowed by the whale for 3 days. (Whale or big fish, who knows). Then he jokes that yeah, in Japan, people go into a large tuna for 3 days for spa treatments. "When they come out and they’re all refreshed but smell like pussy."

WTF!

My first thought was how he equates the fish smell with the p-word and why. (Hearing a guy like that say the p-word just absolutely squicks me out). My second thought was "What kind of women is he having sex with?" It’s like he thinks that every woman’s nether regions smell that way. As women, I know we’re sensitive to our smell down there, thanks to the beauty industry and men like Bill.

Anyone care to put into words more eloquently why I’m disturbed by this?

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