Ok, there is one thing I really have a problem with in South Park.

[delta_mai]

 And that's their treatment of the female sex organs.  The writers are pretty good with feminism, showing women in a positive and equal light and not shying away from tricky issues.  Also, in my memory they have NEVER MADE FUN OF FEMINISM, despite their policy to make fun of every "ism" in existence.  (I may be wrong about this - there are still

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[retsuko]

Didn't you know? Vulvas and vaginas are the creepiest organs! The lowest insult for a man is to be compared to them because they are gross and creepy! /sarcasm

Yeah, this drives me crazy, too, and unfortunately it's deeply ingrained in American humor/culture. Dismantling it is going to take a while. In the meantime, enjoy some Margaret Cho awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10i17NNujDE

(NSFW, but awesome!)

[delta_mai]

I really hate this too. It's not really there in English humour, that I know of, but that's because I think as a culture we're more sensitive to issues like this and we tend to shy away from crude humour. Obviously there are exceptions but in general we just find that sort of humour low.

It just frustrates me when South Park does it because apart from that they're pretty progressive with their treatment of women in comedy. I'd say they're more feminist than Family Guy (I can't like that show from a feminist perspective for so many reasons, one of the main ones being Meg). And yet they still fall into this trap. Why. Why make fun of vaginas? I mean, the episode Eat, Pray, Queef kinda addressed this, but there's this one scene where I'm like " and this is helping your point HOW?"

[findmeneverland]

True. They should at least make fun of penises as well, make fun of everything equally as they usually do.

[delta_mai]

My point exactly. But no. Penises are awesome while vagainas are icky, obv.

Wendy is not impressed. Wendy will fuck them up.

[dance_the_dance]

"We call someone a ‘pussy’ for being weak, even though the vagina contains incredibly strong muscles capable of pushing out human beings that weigh over three kilograms. When someone does something brave, we say they have ‘balls’, even though the testicles don’t seem to do much except hang around, produce sperm and get squeezed out the side of briefs as a gross party trick."
Benjamin Law

I bet they're indeed jealous. :D

[delta_mai]

OH MY GOD THIS IS GOING ON MY FACEBOOK

And this is now going to be my retort to anyone telling me to man up or grow a pair.

WIN

[dance_the_dance]

If you have a tumblr, it's also rebloggable (and is being reblogged a lot). :D
http://face--the--strange.tumblr.com/post/3589696121/we-call-someone-a-pussy-for-being-weak-even