Bean bag, nut sack, huevos, cajaones, family jewels, balls, nuts… even testicles is fun. Yet, when I was talking to my nurse practitioner about my testis (not for fun but for medical reasons – even I have a line), she called the ovaries: things.
Now, this kicked off a weird philosophical inquiry for myself. I assume the average person wouldn’t have tossed into a sea of doubt because ovaries are indeed: things. But, it bothers me on a weird level.
For one, testicles and ovaries start as the same thing and during the formation of a human being they transform. Now, I am not a medical professional, but I did take a health class in Junior High. Also, I have the internet, and in my search for validation, I realized I missed one of my favorite terms: gonads. Also, I did confirm the above statement – all of our gonads start off as the same thing and then morph into other our bits.
So, why all the talk about our happy bits? Simple, during my time with the medical professional I could rattle off multiple names for the testis but nothing fun for ovaries. Ovaries are the female version of balls, but I have no fun names to call them. So I set on a quest to understand why this is the case; I didn’t try very hard in my adventure.
Many folks pointed out that they aren’t an external form of genitalia so they don’t get the screen time of say: breasts. Which makes sense to me but still bothers me. Of all the genitals testis have countless names, we even can leverage slang from foreign languages (there are two at the top of this post), and a huge tell is that our cute names aren’t demeaning (breasts aren’t bags).
So, why don’t we have fun names for ovaries? And if we do and I am just missing them, fire a tweet at me. If you also can’t think of some, let’s start a thing; I’ll go first egg holsters.
Theodore is back in the saddle and asking the simple questions.