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[–]tuesday 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can I just say, i hate the expression "fig leaf". As far i am can tell, the only meaning of that term, besides referring to actual figs, is the fig leaf used by Eve to hide her vagina from Adam. But the way feminists use it, the more accurate term would be "red herring". Something used to hid that which is FAKE.

Feminists are only shooting themselves in the foot when we normalize words and phrases which at at heart, inaccurate. Trans ALWAYS find a way to use our mistakes against us.

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can I just say, i hate the expression "fig leaf". As far i am can tell, the only meaning of that term, besides referring to actual figs, is the fig leaf used by Eve to hide her vagina from Adam.

I agree that this statement by WoLF uses the term "fig leaf" erroneously, as a fig leaf is meant to be something designed to conceal...

But I don't think your claim about the fig leaf being exclusive to Eve holds up. In all versions of the Biblical Book of Genesis, both Adam and Eve are said to have sewn and donned fig leaves to cover their genitals - or rather their "nakedness" - after the two of them ate the "forbidden fruit" form the "tree of knowledge of good and evil." The fig leaf was a symbol of the shame both felt for "sinning."

The fig leave was never something only Eve wore, nor did she wear it to "hide her vagina from Adam." Even when she was fully naked, her vagina would never be visible to Adam or anyone else since the vagina is an internal organ.

The fig leaf was meant to symbolize the human emotion of shame, which is characterized by a feeling/impulse to hide.