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"We'll bring in the cardiothoracic surgeon to repair the coractation of the aorta.
And we'll need to catheterize that vajayjay."

"If she had used the Oprah-approved vajayjay, everything would have been fine," said the (male) Republican in charge of the Michigan House of Representatives of his indefinite banning of a female Democrat from the floor after she uttered the word "vagina" in expressing her opposition to Michigan's proposed new anti-abortion bill.

Anthony Comstock-approved!
Once you allow a female to refer to
her vagina aloud, she'll come to
the totally erroneous conclusion
she owns it!

Okay, actually, it may be doubtful that the term 'vajayjay' would have gone down easier in Michigan's House o' Republicans. We know "vagina" offended--as one of the male legislators actually said, "I don't even want to say it in front of women.  I would not say that in mixed company." http://tinyurl.com/d9lvsrd 

Still, the debate led me to pull out this 2007 NYTimes article tracing the evolution of the word (vajayjay not vagina) which was first suggested by the assistant to Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes when censors were offended by the actual term.  Rhimes remembers:

"Did someone say 'vagina'?/!!"

“I had written an episode during the second season of ‘Grey’s’ in which we used the word vagina a great many times (perhaps 11),” Ms. Rhimes wrote in an e-mail message. “Now, we’d once used the word penis 17 times in a single episode and no one blinked. But with vagina, the good folks at broadcast standards and practices blinked over and over and over. I think no one is comfortable experiencing the female anatomy out loud — which is a shame considering our anatomy is half the population.”

A fan of the show, Oprah heard the word and fell in love.  And no wonder, as Joel McHale explained about Talk Soup's Oprah-vajayjay clip:

“It’s not derogatory. It’s not ‘You’re being such a vajayjay right now.’ It’s kind of a sweet thing... Vajayjay...is like your good buddy.”

If only those gals in Michigan would learn their Grey's Anatomy lesson, they might not have been sent to their offices in disgrace.  (By the way, male legislators have actually gotten into fist fights and not been banned from the floor.)

Here's the link to all things vajayjay:  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28vajayjay.html?pagewanted=all