Hilarious feminism

I read yesterday that one part of feminist theory--I'm not quite sure how radical it is, as it's really not something I'm that interested in--was involved in rejecting "patriarchal" words for certain body parts because, well, they came from patriarchal, militaristic societies. 

There is a great humor in this; ordering a meal is going to be difficult without using words from patriarchal societies for the simple reason that non-patriarchal societies have trouble defending themselves.  If such a society ever existed, I reckon they would have been slaughtered by the first patriarchal, militaristic society that came by.  Hence, you don't find too many words from non-patriarchal, pacifistic societies because they didn't exist very long, if they existed at all.

This is something that I reckon our churches--and our society as a whole--ought to consider as we drift away from our patriarchal roots.  Does our new authority structure provide adequate security against those who do not think as we do?

Even more humorous were a couple of the attempts to rename things; using Hindi, polynesian, or native American words for those body parts.  Hindi, of course, is the language of the people who came up with sati, the polynesians used to strangle the widows of their dead (John Paton's autobiography details this), and of course when we think of peaceful nations, we always think of the Inca, the Aztecs, and the Pawnee--the Pawnee practicing ritual child sacrifice of girls.

In other words, in order to overcome the muted patriarchy of our society, feminists are pushing to utter barbarity.  Oops.