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Women’s college theater group cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ amid concerns that it could offend transgender people
Playwright Eve Ensler addresses a crowd in New Orleans in 2008 before performing readings of “The Vagina Monologues.” (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
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This play still has something for everyone to hate.
For nearly 20 years, people have been offended by “The Vagina Monologues.” There have been so many objections to the play that protests have long since stopped making news.
Playwright Eve Ensler wrote the much-loved, much-hated series of short monologues after interviewing women about sex, love, birth and violence. It shocked many theater-goers with its intense focus on such an intimate part of the body; some found it feminist, thought-provoking and liberating, others found it crass and demeaning.
Now it’s got some feminists offended, too.
As first reported in Campus Reform, a theater group at a women’s college says it will stop showing the play – forever.
The decision to end an annual Valentine’s Day tradition was debated on campus at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., as are so many things about female identity.
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.
School officials recently redefined what it means to be a women’s college, explaining their admission policy for transgender students:
“Mount Holyoke remains committed to its historic mission as a women’s college,” the policy reads, in part. ” Yet, concepts of what it means to be a woman are not static.” It clarifies which students can apply:
more progtastic stuff here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...use-its-offensive-to-women-who-dont-have-one/
Women’s college theater group cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ amid concerns that it could offend transgender people
Playwright Eve Ensler addresses a crowd in New Orleans in 2008 before performing readings of “The Vagina Monologues.” (Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
—
This play still has something for everyone to hate.
For nearly 20 years, people have been offended by “The Vagina Monologues.” There have been so many objections to the play that protests have long since stopped making news.
Playwright Eve Ensler wrote the much-loved, much-hated series of short monologues after interviewing women about sex, love, birth and violence. It shocked many theater-goers with its intense focus on such an intimate part of the body; some found it feminist, thought-provoking and liberating, others found it crass and demeaning.
Now it’s got some feminists offended, too.
As first reported in Campus Reform, a theater group at a women’s college says it will stop showing the play – forever.
The decision to end an annual Valentine’s Day tradition was debated on campus at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., as are so many things about female identity.
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.
School officials recently redefined what it means to be a women’s college, explaining their admission policy for transgender students:
“Mount Holyoke remains committed to its historic mission as a women’s college,” the policy reads, in part. ” Yet, concepts of what it means to be a woman are not static.” It clarifies which students can apply:
more progtastic stuff here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...use-its-offensive-to-women-who-dont-have-one/