Last weekend, I saw my school production of the Vagina Monologues. It was fantastic. Heartwarming, hilarious, thought provoking, saddening, frightening...all at once. What I like about the monologues is the message to women to embrace their identities as women..symbolized by their vaginas. Love your vagina....listen to your vagina....let your vagina be free! Stuff like that. Women need to stop pretending the vagina is not there, to stop wishing it wasn't there, to stop thinking it's ugly or smelly, to stop hating it. Embrace it. Recognize it. It is the essence of femininity and strength. It's a resounding call to strip away the taboo surrounding the vagina. Proclaim it from the rooftop: VAGINA!!!!!!!!
Coincidentally, my boyfriend happened to see an article on BBC's website, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6347649.stm, that had I not mentioned a few days before that I had just seen the monologues, he wouldn't have clicked on the link. It was an article about how a woman in Florida wanted a local theatre to change the title to the euphemized "Hoohaa Monologues." Apparently, she got offended when her niece asked her what a vagina was. There are so many things wrong with this....
First of all, it would be undercutting the entire point of the play. If you use one of those petty child slang terms that are used to cover up the Vagina as if it is something dirty or wrong in the FREAKING TITLE then you are doing a disservice to the play, defacing a work of art by sucking out its very essence. Second of all, vagina is a scientific term. I would be much more offended if my niece asked me say, what a cunt is. The girl is going to have to learn some time or other what a vagina is....especially since she has one....I mean come on...are you going to try to convince the girl that that hole down there is just a decoration, like a freckle or perhaps a birthmark? (A decoration mind you that has NO name...ESPECIALLY not VAGINA!) Third, how old is this woman, I mean honestly.....is she an adult? Being unable to handle a query as simple as what is a vagina? I thought we were supposed to graduate from elementary school when we used to giggle with mixed fear and reverence at the unknown at references to "peepees" and "coochies" when we were ten.
This story makes me really sad. The fact that we have people like that in society today....people who seem to be just LOOKING to be offended. Who bitch and moan at every little "offensive" (Heaven forbid the scientific name of an anatomical feature be used in the title of a play) thing. Who raise stupid issues like this. It is people like that that distract us from concentrating on real problems.
FIGHT THE POWER. STOP STUPIDITY!
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My mother used to refer to my vagina as my "cooter"
I'm sorry, but that is ...horrible. I cringe at the thought/word to this day. It was embaressing to hear her say it! I would MUCH rather have had my mother call it a vagina!
Scientific terms are the most appropriate terms to teach a child, instead of slang.
What sort of adult woman is so ashamed that the word vagina offends her? As I always say, the meaning of every word is in your own mind. There are no words that are truly BAD. They are a combination of letters, and the "bad" and "good" connotation of things comes from your own head. So if a word offends you then it's your problem rather than the word's. This is a prime example of that, as the proper title for a woman's anatomy was found offensive.
Ignorance. I wish everyone could learn to be fucking accepting. (THAT by the way was a word for emphasis. No different from the word "very." So if it offended you, take a chill pill.)
Oh, and that is the BEST blog title I've ever seen. hehe.
-Tim
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I'm pretty sure it's only a dirty word when you make it a dirty word. I think vajayjay is a dirtier word than vagina.
I'm completely sure that vagina is never a dirty word. It's a term used to define a specific part of the female anatomy. There's nothing dirty about that.
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A grown woman offended by the word vagina????????????? Do she not realize that she has one??? What is her problem?? That is what is wrong with young girls today. People are so afraid and offended by the word vagina, that they begin to feel like it's a bad thing. When its not! It's a Beautiful thing. Little girls need to begin to embrace their vaginas!!!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, when she was growing up, maybe she was taught it was "inappropriate" for a "lady" to use "those type" of words. And I don't know why I am "overdoing" the quote marks :) She needs to clam down and focus on more important things.
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I'm sure if this were the case that "hoohaa" would be no more acceptable for a lady to use than vagina.
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