New York Can't Handle the Truth
Do we have to call them the Va-jay-jay Monologues now? I'm very disappointed in New York. I expect this from Florida. Really. I do.
But New York? Shame on you. Good for Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson. They were the perfect people to disobey the order to not use the word "vagina" since they are honor students. They should be proud to write about this suspension experience in their college essays.
Why Richard Leprine, principal of the school the girls attend, said the word was not appropriate, is beyond me. It seems like he claims there may have been children in the audience, and it wouldn't be appropriate for them to hear vagina said out loud. Umm... why?
Megan Reback claimed the youngest "children" were other high school students. I would love to hear what age Richard Leprine thinks it's appropriate for people to hear the word vagina. I'm just so disgusted by this attitude, that everything is taboo. Everything is only taboo because of people like Richard Leprine.
I expect better of New York. I hope for better from New York. New York, please don't make me hate you, and lack respect for you. You're not Florida. You don't have to be an asshole.
But New York? Shame on you. Good for Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson. They were the perfect people to disobey the order to not use the word "vagina" since they are honor students. They should be proud to write about this suspension experience in their college essays.
Why Richard Leprine, principal of the school the girls attend, said the word was not appropriate, is beyond me. It seems like he claims there may have been children in the audience, and it wouldn't be appropriate for them to hear vagina said out loud. Umm... why?
Megan Reback claimed the youngest "children" were other high school students. I would love to hear what age Richard Leprine thinks it's appropriate for people to hear the word vagina. I'm just so disgusted by this attitude, that everything is taboo. Everything is only taboo because of people like Richard Leprine.
I expect better of New York. I hope for better from New York. New York, please don't make me hate you, and lack respect for you. You're not Florida. You don't have to be an asshole.
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posted by Green at 3/08/2007 10:22:00 AM
1 Comments:
The Book Bitches recently posted about a Newbery Award winner that was censored from a library because it contained the word "scrotum." Although the context in The Vagina Monologues is probably meant to be more evocative than Lucky's casual mention of a dog being bitten on the sac, the audience for the play is also usually older, and presumably mature enough to handle slightly more intense content.
Thus, my reaction to this is approximately the same: The audience in this case should know what it is, especially the members who have one. If they aren't aware or not mature enough to understand it isn't about sex, it isn't something to giggle about, then explain it to them, for pete's sake. That's called education.
Sure, some will choose to not understand the real meaning of the words, but there's no way to avoid that. It's not right to make the whole thing into something dirty and shameful just because of some immature twit who has never moved beyond fart jokes. (Not that fart jokes can't be funny, but most adults - and adolescents, for that matter - realize that there's plenty more to life than that.)
For the record, I'm not completely against censorship, especially if we're talking about parents monitoring what their children's music, tv, movies, and books. I just think that people should be informed and practical about it. We can't seriously call ourselves a civilized society with all these alarmist witch-hunters running around banning art without bothering to understand it, can we?
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