And I believe the contest Sean refers to wasn’t about renaming the vagina per se, but instead about coming up with some pet names—besides “pussyâ€� and “cuntâ€�—that could be used, new slang that didn’t sound degrading or profane. There are so many words for penis—cock, dick, baloneyponie, johnson, purple-headed-yogurt-slinger, stick-pussy, etc.—and comparatively few for vagina. We hoped to correct this imbalance and achieve some sort of genital-nickname parity.

Because The Stranger is nothing if not a matriarchy.