Words...

This morning Jane Fonda and the writer of the critically acclaimed "Vagina Monologues" were on the Today Show talking about this great piece of work. If you don't know the background of the "Vagina Monologues" it is this. It is the compilation of interviews with various women about their bodies and sexuality. Well during this segment, Jane was talking about one part that she had to read called "Cunt". She said this on live TV and I guess the nation exploded - or it should have, right?

The context it was in was for part of the play. She didn't call anyone a cunt. She wasn't angry and yelling at someone. She was talking about a play for gods sake. Well I guess this was another "Nipple Gate" and people had to apologize. MY GWAD when are we going to get out of the dark ages and understand that words are just that - words. If they are not said in hate or anger then what is wrong people.

Also, something else you may want to know about the "Vagina Monologues":

The Vagina Monologues is the cornerstone of the V-Day movement, whose participants stage benefit performances of the show worldwide each year between February 1st and March 8th (International Women's Day. The first V-Day benefit took place on Valentine's Day 1998 and many of the local benefits are held on Valentine's Day. The "V" in V-Day stands for Valentine, Vagina, and Victory, linking love and respect for women to ending violence against women and girls. The proceeds from these performances go to programs that work to end violence against women and girls, including crisis centers and women's shelters.

On February 21, 2004, Eve Ensler in conjunction with Jane Fonda and Deep Stealth Productions produced and directed a new series of transgender monologues read by eighteen notable trans women, which documented the experiences of Transgender persons. It debuted in connection with "LA V-DAY until the Violence Stops" with moving monologues documenting the violence against Transgenders. Since that debut the Women's' Centers of many universities and colleges have added these three "Transgender Monologues" to the original production.

Camille Paglia has criticized V-Day as "turning Valentine's Day, the one holiday celebrating romantic harmony between the sexes, into a grisly memento mori of violence against women". ^[3]

Following the success of Eve Elsner's The Vagina Monologues, many "penis parodies" began appearing at colleges and playhouses around the nation. None of the parodies have achieved the level of success or recognition that "Monologues" has received, and none have taken the stark, non-comical approach of the Monologues.

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