I was one of the guys who did that, too, abbynormalguy. Where you at?
The name of the woman is Eve Ensler.
Honestly, can the Schools’ staff become any more controlling? They were kids once also, they hopefully still remember the kind of things us teens go through. Sexuality is our entertainment, and for most is one of the most curious and unknown things. Also, wtf is with all of these kids that are clueless about sex?! Are parents just getting lazy, or is it just me? Sheesh, sex ed. isn’t the end of the world but it’s pretty pathetic when kids come to school and have never heard of it. If you can work up the balls to have sex, you should be able to work up the balls to tell your kid what it is when the time comes. Now, back to the pervious statement about Highschools. Yeah, they teach sex ed. (most of them), great. When they teach it, if their teachers doing all the teaching are acting like its funny and having a good time teaching it, and the kids are having a good time learning it and aren’t uncomfortable, then why is it so evil for them to have curiousity about it? What is the world coming to, honestly…
My wife’s derision of the VM just gets funnier with eash passing comment.
“Let the cat go outside…I need to liberate my pussy.”
Had to share.
I happen to think the Vagina monologues are the worst form of activism they don’t stand on their own, and I’m resentful of the agenda which is to coopt Valentines day. I think the portrayal of men is terrible. I think it’s boring, and false and wrong, sends a bad message etc etc etc.
That being said, I beleive that any school public or private, and administrators or teachers or students that wish to portray it, have every right to do so. Furthermore, they should be free to do so without fear of backlash or constraint.
The horror, the horror. Co-opting Valentine’s Day. :rolleyes: I’m not sure what ‘they don’t stand on their own’ means.
I think you’ve not seen the play, or went with your mind made up etc etc etc. There are some men who come off badly, and others have wonderful things said about them.
i see nothing wrong with it.
why doesn’t anybody get pissed off if they perform hamlet ? after all, murder is illegal.
What, specifically, about the “portrayal of men” in the show do you think is so questionable?
The whole violent molesting raping thing, and how most of the vaginas suffered from men, and most of the vaginas were talking about how they’d been hurt by men.
It’s been a while, but I’m sure I didn’t imagine this when I saw it. If you’d like me to be more specific with examples can you get me an online link?
Well, it’s not exactly the holocaust, I agree. But that doesn’t make it a good thing.
The show has no artistic quality outside of its activist value, IMO. It’s contrived, embarassingly obvious and awkward.
Well, in all fairness, you may be right. I had a real chip on my shoulder when I saw it, I’m afraid. I expected it to be a piece of activist junk that would beat up on men.
That doesn’t mean that’s not what it was. At the very least it failed to win me over, and I thought the first person vagina perspective was pretty ludicrous and poorly pulled off in the version I saw at Wilson College. I concede that expectations probably colored my perceptions, but even throught that filter I just thought it sucked on many levels.
I rode Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon with similarly ugly preconceptions and found it to be one of the finest books I’ve ever read. Violence against women as a subject is not exactly a new idea for literature and there really are so many great pieces of literature out there dealing with the subject that there’s little excuse for VM.