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Video: Stephen Colbert's Brilliant Riff on the Trump Team's Blatant Lying About the Russian Meeting at Trump Tower

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷6/06/2018 7:58:34 pm PDT

Food for thought.

Take a tour of the female pelvis, and you’ll encounter a few incongruous people along the way. How did James Douglas end up tucked behind the uterus? What is Gabriel Fallopian doing hanging around the ovaries? Why is Caspar Bartholin the Younger attached to the labia? And can we trust Ernst Grafenberg’s claim that he actually found the G-spot? Whether you know it or not, each of these dudes have ended up immortalised in the female pelvis - as the Pouch of Douglas, Bartholin’s glands, fallopian tubes, and that elusive Grafenberg spot.

The truth is, men are all over women’s bodies - dead, white male anatomists, that is. Their names live on eponymously, immortalised like audacious explorers for conquering the geography of the female pelvis as if it were terra nullius.

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bbc.com
“How Women’s Body Parts Have Been Named after Men”