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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Williams

The truth about vaginas: how I became a committed vulva-splainer

Janelle Monáe in trousers with huge outsplayed fringes in pink
Anatomically correct? Janelle Monáe at the Glastonbury festival. Photograph: BBC

I have a stick up my arse about the difference between “less” and “fewer”, and women in the generations below have the same about “vagina” and “vulva”, and even though the principle is the same – why not just use the right word, instead of the wrong one? – I have never been able to see their problem. Everyone’s got the gist. Why make a scene?

It happened that I recently spent some hallowed time with millennials and also saw Janelle Monáe, live, and this all coincided at a festival that it would be crass to mention for the 91st time – but suffice it to say, I have finally come round to their point of view.

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