There are so many things we're never told about our vaginas like that most of the things on this list are actually about vulvas instead of vaginas, and no, the two are not the same. Here are 15 things I wish we'd had cleared up sooner. What the hell that white stuff in your underwear is. So many women spend years staring at their underwear and being horrified by that weird white discharge because they think it means they're dying or disgusting, and neither are true. If it's cottage cheese-y, yellow, grayish-green, watery, or more than you usually produce, then yes, see a doctor. But if it's just that clear-ish white stuff you've been seeing in your underwear every day since you can remember, stop stressing. I spent years not knowing why cleaning my vag with weird scented mall soaps did not feel awesome to me. How to actually give yourself an orgasm that doesn't involve pretending your finger is a penis. When you grow up, if you see any depictions of sex in movies, they're likely to be images of heteronormative penetrative sex where the guy puts his penis into a vagina and and the woman comes wildly. That you can't accidentally lose a tampon inside your vagina.


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Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Story highlights Author Naomi Wolf says recent controversies reveal biased views toward women's bodies The Pussy Riot trial and Arab Spring protests showed women stripped of autonomy Women's bodies are battlegrounds used to wage culture wars, Wolf says It's scandalous when women take ownership of their own bodies, Wolf contends. It seems as if we are in a time of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of women's bodies and sexuality.
This decade, memes became something not just for a handful of internet nerds who lurked on message boards — memes are now for everyone. Huge technological shifts of the s led to this: widespread smartphone adoption and the rise of newfangled social media platforms like Vine. Memes also became a business — brands used meme-speak and accounts like fuckjerry made big bucks by reposting memes. To determine the ranking of this list, we considered the overall popularity of a meme, its longevity, and historical importance — what kind of impact it had on other memes and internet culture. Here they are:. In , year-old Mason Ramsey sang a Hank Williams song in a Walmart, and the internet went nuts.