…As first reported in Campus Reform, a theater group at a women’s college says it will stop showing the play – forever.
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The student-run theater group’s leaders asked the dean of students to send out an e-mail asking whether they should continue to run the play, according to Julia Ferrante, a spokeswoman for the college, and then another e-mail this week announcing the results of the survey. Because of students’ concerns about offending transgender people, the theater group canceled the play.
Ah, ok, how does it possibly offend transgenders? Just cause they weren’t born with a who-ha?! (I would think it would offend uptight heteros much more easily!) And more importantly, so what if it does offend trangenders? (Given that I’m sure nobody ever cared about the offended uptight heteros!)
And is the last line in the article: Meanwhile, Ensler has her own new play: “O.P.C. (Obsessive Political Correctness).” an ironic joke?!
I’m puzzled. Was it cancelled because it did offend transgender students, or because other students were worried that it might? Considering it’s a play that has long been offending a lot of people, it seems strange to stop doing it now because maybe it’ll offend a specific group.
There have been a lot of very stupid short-sighted decisions made lately because of well-intentioned people making assumptions about what other people might find offensive.
This is six month old news, just so everyone’s aware. Eve Ensler was puzzled by it, as am I. There’s a transgender monologue *in *it (the “Vagina Monologues” are more numerous than any one showing actually has. Certain ones are given rights on V-Day for free use in V-Day events. The transgender piece, “They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy,” is one of them.) If they were so concerned, why not do that one as part of the piece?
It was fine when it was only offending religious, conservative, uptight people; their opinions don’t matter. But the chance that it might offend someone in an alternative lifestyle or minority group was too much for them to risk.
