Chinese mythology has a tale about a Jade rabbit that resides on the moon. On nights the moon is full you can clearly see its outline, pounding a mortar and pestle as it helps make the elixir of immortality.

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Patriarchal myths cast women as dangerous and devious and is used as oppressive propaganda.

The idea that women have “teeth down there” is found with several different global narratives to justify femicide, FGM & medical negligence and excuse sexual violence.

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Patriarchal rule has a sordid history of creating moral panics around female sexuality to justify stripping rights to women’s bodily autonomy.

The idea that women have “teeth down there” exists globally and is used to justify FGM, promote medical negligence and excuse sexual violence.

Well this seems a milestone worth celebrating. Thank you to all our readers and friends in the folklore & myth community for all your likes and shares. We love what we do, and this makes it that much more rewarding 🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

I filled an entire book on how the #folklore fear that women have “teeth down there” has shaped medical and social policies in patriarchal societies.

We are having our rights stripped by people who have never matured past juvenile belief systems and it is terrifying.

Here was the turkey from that year 😂😂😂

We still absolutely adore the piece we got from you 💜

We let the kids pick a theme. This was from “alien” Christmas where our tree was a ufo abducting cows. We also do horrible things to the turkey to fit the theme.

Brimming with razor sharp teeth, the vagina dentata presents a surreal representation of the sexually dangerous woman. Yet, as this book demonstrates femicide, genital mutilation, medical negligence and sexual violence are just some of the real world repercussions of these stories

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Loving these!

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Thanks for sharing the link. Ours is on track for what we aim for 😂😂😂. How fun!

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