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The Daily OrangeMasculine monologues: 'Vagina' show adds male version
Abstract:
They wear simple black shirts with bright, pink letters that stand out in the midst of white snow falling on the quad. The phrase "We've reclaimed it…" is in bold, capital letters sending a loud message to the people who read it.
Of course, the message only resonates if onlookers actually know what the phrase means....
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Lenny
posted 3/16/09 @ 10:23 PM EST
I was tricked by "vagina monologues" into showing up, thinking there would be a talking vagina puppet show. I'm not falling for the same trick twice.
Alice Blaker
posted 3/19/09 @ 4:40 AM EST
I have to agree with teh poster above... :/ looks like a lot of hot air to me.
DeNicola
posted 3/24/09 @ 8:13 AM EST
I'm largely with Ms. Jackson (poster above). Who determined that the symmetrical complement of "vagina" is "masculine?" I think that "slip" actually says a great deal about the unfortunate (and asymmetrical) reduction of gender to physical attributes (overweight, repugnant men courting slender attractive women is a common television idiom, for example). It also doesn't suggest to me that a strikingly thoughtful production is in store...only that someone still misses part of the message of the Monologues...
Lenny
posted 3/24/09 @ 8:45 AM EST
Originally posted byDeNicola
I'm largely with Ms. Jackson (poster above). Who determined that the symmetrical complement of "vagina" is "masculine?" I think that "slip" actually says a great deal about the unfortunate (and asymmetrical) reduction of gender to physical attributes (overweight, repugnant men courting slender attractive women is a common television idiom, for example). It also doesn't suggest to me that a strikingly thoughtful production is in store...only that someone still misses part of the message of the Monologues...
And who determined that slender=attractive? Hypocricy much?
Rosetta Cheeseman
posted 6/20/09 @ 5:33 PM EST
This article is amazing. I'm going to spend so much time procrastinating on here. I'm not quite sure if I should be thanking you, or cursing you
Jane Ramer
posted 6/21/09 @ 3:52 AM EST
What an awesome article! You must have spent a lot of time and effort on it-needless to say, awesome job!
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typhonblue
posted 10/24/08 @ 8:33 PM EST
How about men put on their own version that deals with female-on-male domestic violence, men's experiences of being sexually assaulted by women, the impact of widespread male genital mutilation in the west, the fact that men can't 'consent' to sex because their consent is presumed, how women dominate men socially through aggressive physical and verbal behaviors and other experiences of being male.
I'm a woman and I've witnessed all of these things happen to men who are my loved ones. How about you talk about their stories?
I'm tired of this excessive and disturbing focus on 'saving' women. I don't need a knight in white armor--boys, slay your own dragons before you come running to save me from... well... nothing really.
Finally, does the Vagina monologs still have that excremental female-on-female 'rape as love' scene? I was sexually assaulted by another female and I refuse to see it on those grounds alone.