Help me out here.

[mothwing]

"I don't hate people with vaginas, I don't think that possession of a vagina is inextricably linked to any particular trait or that people with vaginas are somehow inferior to people with penises, or any of that nonsense. But when it comes to sitting directly next to a vagina itself for about twelve hours? No way. I really, really don't like them - the shape, the smell, the actions performed...and I don't see what's wrong with saying that. If someone were to say that they hate penises - and I know many women, gay and straight, who have - that would hardly be something unbelievable. The US as a whole is incredibly squeamish about asses, something I certainly like in a sexual context, and it's fairly common to hear people talk about 100% hating anal sex. Why is it that the vagina is the one part that no one's meant to hate, even if they don't fancy girls?"

Am I the only one who thinks that this is ...problematic?

fabfemmeboy said this in a post on RPatts quote on how he "really hates vaginas" and how that meant that he was totes gay (rather than, you know, an idiot).

Many applaud this sentence as funny and think that this is only a harmless, if hyperbolic statement of his discomfort - like "I hatre cucumber" (and really? My reason for being uncomfortable during that particular photoshoot really would not have been the nekkid people around me - there were much better reasons for that).

To me, this seems to disregard several facts completely, such as the broader context of how society sees vaginas (as I pointed out, this is made most apparent to me in the different use and implications of derogatory terms for both penes and vaginas), how this isn't just a harmless ~preference~ and how sexual orientation is really not defined by your relationship with a set of genitalia.

Right?