Ensler = cupid stunt!
      (Sigh - I find it so hard to say the word CUNT - although others have
said it to me to which(being a man) I usually reply COULD!) ;-)
      Her dupes = even more cupid stunts!
      http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17011
      The Hijacking of Valentine's Day
By Jason Mattera
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 14, 2005

Valentine's Day. It's that time of the year set aside for husbands and
wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, to express their love, commitment, and
affection for each other. To feminists on college campuses, however, it's a
propaganda tool designed to objectify the female body and recite bilious
rhetoric. On this day, February 14th, hundreds of women's groups will be
performing "The Vagina Monologues" at our institutions of higher
learning as
part of the "V-Day" initiative. Recently, I saw the performance at my own
'academic' institution, Roger Williams University (RWU). Participants in the
play asked and answered mind-bending questions such as "What does a vagina
smell like?" and "If your vagina could talk, what would it say, in two
words?"

One scene was titled "Reclaiming Cunt," which is all about the linguistic
aroma that can be derived from the "C" word. Erin McGreevy, director of the
women's center at RWU, has no objection to casually using the "C" word.
After the showing, in fact, she said that the word " 'cunt' should be viewed
as a good term. Why not? Women should use it in everyday language." In
reality, though, what sane lady would take satisfaction in being called a
'cunt'? Can you picture a scenario involving a candlelight dinner in a
quaint restaurant overlooking the Potomac River in which the guy takes his
girlfriend's hand, gazes into her eyes, and says, 'honey, you're such a cunt'.
That's not exactly recommended prose for scoring points in a relationship.


RWU student Ernest Offley's favorite part of the play was called "The Little
Coochi Snorcher that Could." One wonders why he would admit to liking this
scene, because it lionizes statutory rape. A woman in her middle twenties is
featured seducing a 13-year-old girl. The older woman taught the younger
"different ways to give [herself] pleasure," while also doing everything to
the youngster's vagina that the little one had "always thought was nasty
before".



Krystle Lachance, another RWU student, believes that "women's bodies have
been concealed over the years. The "Monologues" try to get them
[bodies] out
there in a personable way." Some of these "personable" ways involve
garrulous moaning, talk of menstrual cycles, and asking a six-year-old girl
what her vagina would wear if it got dressed.



After seeing the "Monologues", fellow student Sara Tesh said the play
"empowers women to discuss a side of them that most people don't get to see.
We should be more open about masturbation. It shouldn't be a hush-hush
subject."  Women should feel free to discuss their vaginas openly, added
McGreevy. "The vagina is our center. Everything that a women has is in her
vagina-physically, spiritually, intellectually, it's all in the vagina."



But according to Professor Christina Hoff Sommers of Clark University, "The
woman who 'discovers' that her clitoris is her 'essence' and says, 'My
vagina is me' [as Ensler's play states], is insulting herself, and all
women. One of the many laudable goals of the original women's movement was
its rejection of the idea that women are reducible to their anatomy.  Our
bodies are not our selves. Feminist pioneers like Susan B. Anthony and
Sojourner Truth fought long and hard so women would be respected-not for
their sexual anatomy-but for their minds."



Furthermore, the "women's centers" that sponsor this play are just
instigating confusion to an already confused student body. Colleen Vincent
Palletti, one of the "Monologue" performers said, "I don't
see myself as a
woman and I'm definitely not a man, so I'm kind of a combination of the
 two."



Even stranger is the justification for the frequent use of grisly language
located in the "Monologues". The play's brainchild, Eve Ensler, claims that
it increases awareness of domestic violence. As part of its mission,



  a.. "V-Day is an organized response against violence toward women."
  b.. "V-Day is a vision: We see a world where women live safely and
 freely."
  c.. "V-Day is a process: We will work a long as it takes. We will not stop
until violence stops."
  d.. "V-Day is a day: We proclaim Valentine's Day as V-Day, to celebrate
women and end violence."
But how does a play riddled with vulgarities do anything to console female
victims of abuse or even serve as a preventive measure against violence?
Instead of serving the cause she claims to champion, Ensler encourages
students to act out stories that lack any nexus to hostility. The tale of
"Bob" who loved to look at vaginas for hours on end and the scene featuring
a 72-year-old masturbating woman are hardly the best way to bring awareness
of female brutality on college campuses. Such scenes are only cheap
pornographic displays.



Sadly, women's centers, which are supposed to provide support, resources,
and sound counseling, have partnered with radical feminism. Impressionable
college students are being told to give up a historical and romantic day so
that feminists can talk about their body parts on stage and make perfunctory
connections to domestic violence. In 2004, the "Monologues" were performed
in over 1100 communities and colleges. College students, like those at RWU,
are being conned. They feel smug and pleased with themselves for supposedly
making a difference. Yet they are only contributing to the degradation of
culture by aligning themselves with a movement that is attempting to erase
Valentine's Day and supplant it with V-Day. If feminists really want to
empower women, they would refrain from showing them "The Vagina Monologues"
and would instead sponsor forums teaching tested principles of hard work,
discipline, and vigilance.



Jason Mattera was named one of the top conservative student activists in the
country by the Young America's Foundation for two years in a row, named Best
College Republican State Chairman in 2003, and is a senior at Roger Williams
University, Bristol, RI. He can be contacted at jmattera845{at}rwu.edu.




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