"Philip Lewis"  wrote in message
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>       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?"
"What does a vagina smell like?"
Like fish that's been left in the sun for a week!!

"If your vagina could talk, what would it say, in two words?"
Gimmmeeee Gimmmeeee!!

> 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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