Peple: I always like to compare myself to cars, cause i don't know anything about cars. When i met the dealer and their in words like spark plugs or this needs to be done, i'm looking for cues in their face. That's what a lot of people know about their bodies, the same as my knowledge about cars. But an important distinction between that, like, lack of car knowledge and that lack of body knowledge is that when we talk about oil changes, i'm not disgusted. And our patriarchal society has a sort of placed, you know, this inappropriate sort of value on these body parts.
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