fapp and phallologocentrism

[Amy West]

This is not something I've followed up with any research, yet. (And I 
regret opening a rather prurient line of thinking.)

But yesterday it was striking me that "fapp," being onomatopoeic in 
origin, originates from referring to *male* masturbation. "Jack off" is  
similar. And then the feminist critical theory buried under detritus in 
my mind started bubbling up and pointed out the exclusion of female 
masturbation from those terms and the corollary of denial of female 
sexuality, etc., etc. Not that I really want to know, but likely there 
are terms for female masturbation out there (and probably easily 
findable on Urban Dictionary, if I really want to follow this line of 
thinking), but I'm betting that they're not onomatopoeic.

(So, I think I am once again pointing out the obvious. My work here is 
done.)

---Amy West

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