I just don’t understand the right-wing obsession with The Vagina Monologues. So they talk about vaginas. They raise money to combat violence against women and girls. They don’t say, “The best way to live is to wait until your married, then close your eyes and think of England.” Conservatives would be better off attacking Avenue Q.
And yet they just can’t stop. Karin Agness, president of the Network of Enlightened Women at UVA (who I suspect is pissed off because her vagina never taught her how to write effectively) is example A:
While most people were celebrating or searching for love on Valentine’s Day, groups of women throughout the country decided to forego this lovely holiday to talk about their vaginas.
Because you either get vaginas or love, not both. And they never, ever have anything to do with eachother.
Women have the choice to do this. I am thankful for that choice. But this choice to participate in The Vagina Monologues is the latest manifestation of feminism gone wrong in America.
Yes, that God-given American choice to talk about vaginas is something that the Founders and Enlightened Women alike cherish, so long as its a choice that’s never exercised.
These “Vagina Warriors” have become those monsters, men, who they feared and hated for so long for exploiting women.
Referring to my vagina makes it clear to those I am speaking to that I am, in fact, a man.
Now feminists have reversed the scenario, and women are exploiting themselves. Throughout the play, women claim their body parts define them. In one monologue, a woman describes her experience at a Vagina Workshop. Her instructor told her to draw a picture of her own vagina and look at it with a hand mirror. This woman said, “She [the instructor] then told me my clitoris was not something I could lose. It was me, the essence of me….I didn’t have to find it. I had to be it.” She embraces and accepts this definition of herself.
The woman in this monologue has clearly reduced herself to a body part. This is way worse than the supposed objectifying that feminists claimed men did in the 1970s. Can you imagine if a man then or today would say to a woman, “Your clitoris is you?” No, only a leftist woman can get away with saying this.
Well, perhaps we’ll make an exception if he can prove that he knows where the clitoris even is. And, sorry, but recognizing the existence of your clitoris — or one woman talking about “becoming” her clitoris as she learned how to masturbate for the first time — doesn’t quite fit under the defintion of exploitation. But I’d be perfectly happy to buy this Enlightened Woman a dictionary, since it appears she needs one. She can start by looking up “enlightened.”
Unfortunately, these Vagina Warriors have chosen to focus on their body parts rather than their brains, talents or achievements. As such, they have effectively reduced themselves to the very thing they did not want to be defined by: their intimate anatomy.
I’m sorry, but doesn’t it take brains and talent to write, direct, act in, and produce a play that is put on in 76 different countries?
Feminists also loudly complained in the 1970s that men used their structural power to abuse women. In a monologue titled, “The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could,” a 24-year-old woman invites a 16-year-old girl into her car. The 16-year-old says, “She asks me if I like to kiss boys, and I tell her I do not like that. Then she says she wants to show me something, and she leans over and kisses me so softly on the lips with her lips and then puts her tongue in my mouth. Wow.”
It gets worse.
Isn’t that just awful? Kissing… disgusting!
In turn, feminists have become the dominating, oppressive force, which they condemned in the 1970s when it was supposedly men acting this way, committing crimes and creating victims. These feminists are the monsters they once despised, abusing women and then celebrating it.
Still not seeing how feminists are abusing women and then celebrating it. And what exactly do we dominate and oppress? Men? No. The government? No. The courts? No. The professional class? No. Perhaps she’s angry at the female domination of low-wage menial employment, because we’ve definitely got a hold over that one.
The feminist movement has always been quick to point out the objectification and abuse they felt men were committing against women. I think it’s time that the feminists realize that they have become their own greatest enemy.
By saying “vagina,” you are harming your own cause. Or something. She lost me.
And like Amanda points out, we should keep in mind exactly what it is that these people are railing against. Plus, what Sheezlebub says.