Women’s Health magazine turned some heads with this tweet:
Feminist hero bakes sourdough bread using her own vaginal yeast: https://t.co/beMl4vQGk2 pic.twitter.com/E6cRHNxtDm
— Women’s Health (@WomensHealthMag) November 9, 2017
Feminist HERO? Wow. That’s…a bold assertion? The article linked is from 2015 and here’s a taste (sorry for the choice of words)
In preparation for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, you’re probably seeing a lot of self-help articles about managing stress, dealing with unpleasant family members, and most importantly, making it through the day in one piece.
And while there’s no doubt that all of this advice is well-intentioned, sometimes, when the s**t is hitting the fan and your uncle is being a sexist piece of garbage, you have to do something to regain control and remind yourself that you’re a badass bitch who no one can f**k with. And there’s no better way to do that than serving an a**hole a slice of truly homemade bread…leavened with the yeast of your own vagina.
Wow, First off we censored the non-radio words, and also what a bleak look at Family at Thanksgiving. Surely vagina bread will fix the festivities!
But does such a recipe even exist? Yes, it does, thanks to feminist blogger Zoe Stavri, who, after getting a pretty bad yeast infection, had the inspired idea to turn her discomfort into delicious baked goods.
Oof. That’s a collection of words, isn’t it?
I’m skipping the next block of text because it contains the words ‘goop’ and a sex toy but you can do the math
Zoe’s curiosity led not only to her creating her sourdough starter recipe, but also to pissing off a very disgusted group of people on the Internet who believe that it is “unhygienic and unsanitary.” However, Zoe contends that, really, yeast is yeast. And yeast from her vagina is no less gross than any of the other yeast we use to bake bread with.
Now there is a beer made with Beard Yeast, but I don’t want to drink it, I don’t want to try her bread, and she’s no one’s hero!
Eww.
