{"id":1454,"date":"2016-10-26T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:19:12","slug":"feminists-refuse-to-perform-the-vagina-monologues-because-its-gender-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/10\/feminists-refuse-to-perform-the-vagina-monologues-because-its-gender-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminists refuse to perform \u201cThe Vagina Monologues\u201d because it\u2019s gender exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/530896713\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 65.993266% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/530896713?et=d7ptSLD8ThpUliSTVW57Pw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=JVtznlbAH-FcOvDisUugWZdhJ_Udaiysw-xAVZsZgU0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s fun watching the politically correct turn on each other. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The new wave of social justice feminism has deconstructed gender equality to such a degree that now, the famous feminist play <i>The Vagina Monologues<\/i>, is no longer acceptable because it doesn\u2019t represent all bodies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This oddity \u2014 the outdated requirement that to be a woman you must have a vagina \u2014 is currently playing out on college campuses across the nation. As a result, the once heralded female-centric play is being rejected by theater groups.<\/p>\n<p>An American University student panned the \u201cantiquated\u201d script because it dares suggest that only women have vaginas and \u201crepresents a binary representation of gender.\u201d This student is on staff at AU\u2019s Women\u2019s Initiative, and the quest was to find a new set of monologues which \u201cmake this a place for all bodies regardless of gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students at Whitman College were able to find an alternative with a show it called \u201cBreaking Ground\u201d where students talked about their own bodies, as <a href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/colleges-reject-the-vagina-monologues-because-in-order-to-be-a-woman-you-must-have-a-vagina\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">HeatStreet<\/a> explained. They\u2019ve been doing so for the last three years since rejecting the worn out feminist play.<\/p>\n<p>And yet another, Mount Holyoke College \u2014 an all-female school \u2014 refuses to do <i>The Vagina Monologues<\/i> because students have become \u201cincreasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playwright Eve Ensler weighed in on the backlash her work has received:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<i>The Vagina\u00a0Monologues<\/i>\u00a0never intended to be a play about what it means to be a woman. It is and always has been a play about what it means to have a vagina. In the play, I never defined a woman as a person with a vagina.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, lucky for us, she doesn\u2019t need to supply the definition of a woman because science has already done that and there aren\u2019t enough tears from triggered snowflakes in the world to change the cold, hard fact that having a vagina is the exclusive requirement to be a woman. If you don\u2019t have one, you\u2019re a man.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I\u2019ve been able to clear up any confusion because it\u2019s obvious they aren\u2019t learning this in college.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s fun watching the politically correct turn on each other.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feminists refuse to perform \u201cThe Vagina Monologues\u201d because it\u2019s gender exclusive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s fun watching the politically correct turn on 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