Chubby cheeked chipmunk

Share On facebook Share On facebook Share. In our look at mammals that can really damage your lawn, chipmunks are right up there with moles as far as the ones to worry about the most. Chipmunks are incredibly resilient, and none of these alternative methods — some of which have been shown to work on moles and voles — have any sort of effect on the chipmunks. The United States has around 24 different species of chipmunks, with 23 of them being located in the midwestern and western parts of the country. LawnEQ Copyright , All Rights Reserved. Also unlike moles and voles, chipmunks are a bit harder to fight against. Most noticeable are the stripes that run along their bodies.

Barbara Creed finds the influence of the vagina dentata in the language used to describe women in general: The 'female eunuch' is symbolic of the desexed representation of the female sexual experience, rather than representing a literal desire for a male organ. Ruth Wajnryb links this association of femininity with monstrosity directly to 'cunt' itself: There is no ambiguity whatsoever surrounding "-cunthorpe", a deliberate truncation of the Humberside town Scunthorpe on the back cover of a book by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie The missing link is the Latin term 'cuneus', meaning 'wedge'. This tendency was parodied by Private Eye with a spoof headline about cricketer Kevin Pietersen:

There have been attempts, however, to reappropriate 'cunt', investing it with a positive meaning and removing it from the lexicon of offence, similar in effect to the transvaluation of 'bad', 'sick', and 'wicked', whose colloquial meanings have also been changed from negative to positive - what Jonathon Green calls "the bad equals good model" of oppositional slang Jennifer Higgie, The woman's "cock-chomping beaver" was subdued by an iron dildo, an object which is still celebrated on the first Sunday of every April at the Kanamara Matsuri event in Kawasaki, Japan. A parallel 'cunt-power' ideology, seeking to reclaim the word more forcefully, was instigated by Germaine Greer - and later revived by Zoe Williams, who encouraged "Cunt Warriors" to reclaim the word , the latest of the "various attempts over several hundred years of usage to "resignify" cunt to resume its original, feminine-anatomical status" Jacqueline Z Wilson, [b]. For men to unveil the Medusa is to confront the dread of looking at the female sexual organs"