There's this explanation for many such efforts, entitled, The Word Vagina Is Kryptonite for the Right
er, Cha. Cha. Cha.

Could it be that the Puritans infected the psyches of most of their descendants, rendering them isolated, impervious to any chance? of their ever noticing their hubris (so off-putting to ordinary, healthy humans.)
(No wonder that mansplaining is its own self-parody, eh?)