Twist: I Just like the Phrase “Moist” | Jive Update

Twist: I Just like the Phrase “Moist”


When Kurt Andersen took over as editor of New York Journal, he printed out a listing of “annoying phrases” he didn’t need his writers to make use of. Once I was 32, I wrote about this checklist on Cup of Jo, then added a phrase that I actually hated: moist.

Moist? Ew, gross. In the event you described banana bread as moist, it sounded vaginal. And I actually didn’t just like the phrase vagina. It was bizarre, kind of icky. I prevented saying it, even on the physician’s workplace. *shudders*

I used to be removed from alone. In 2012, The New Yorker requested their Twitter followers which phrase needs to be eradicated from the English language. “Ultimately, there was a runaway un-favorite,” they wrote. “Moist.” 5 years later, meals author Emily Johnson even lamented this cultural aversion in her Bon Appetit piece “Cease Getting Mad at Me for Utilizing the Phrase ‘Moist,’” explaining that “you possibly can solely describe a hen thigh as juicy so many occasions.”

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And did you ever see this scene from Saltburn? “I used to be a lesbian for some time, ,” the mom says. “But it surely was all a bit too moist for me ultimately. Males are so beautiful and dry.”

Effectively.

Now that I’m older, and fortunately the tradition has grown and shifted (huge nod to Broad Metropolis right here, which loudly celebrated girls’s our bodies and wishes), the phrases moist and moist and damp really sound so heat to me, so compelling. They remind us of ladies? Of intercourse? Good! I can’t consider how a lot they’ve modified in my thoughts, with out my doing something aside from passively absorbing the tradition round me.

The phrase “vagina” additionally sounds utterly completely different — shut and endearing, just like the beloved identify of a long-time buddy. My buddy’s younger son not too long ago misremembered my identify and known as me “Vajenna” all night time, and I used to be so honored and charmed. How fascinating, proper? Do you are feeling the identical? Or in another way? Or nothing in any respect?

At the moment, Toby and I toured a highschool, and the admissions director led us down a stairwell peppered with ceramic tiles made by college students. One tile confirmed the Statue of Liberty; one other, a basketball. After which I noticed one among a vulva. “Oh, look!” I mentioned, pointing. “How cool is that?” I liked that the coed had felt impressed to make it and the varsity had then displayed it.

It really wasn’t the primary vulva art work my children had seen — my sister, Lucy, has a sculpture by Sophia Wallace in her eating room, which means a terracotta clitoris seems within the background of many household photographs. And I’m excited to see the Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, which options one among Wallace’s big clit sculptures, impressed by the power and style of swans.

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What about you? How do you are feeling concerning the phrase “moist”? “Vagina”? “Vulva”? Have your emotions modified or stayed the identical? No mistaken solutions, after all; please share your ideas beneath. xoxoxo

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