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Thursday, March 15, 2007

The Vagina Monologues Makes People Angry.

I love words. I thank you for hearing my words.
I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.
They're my work, they're my play, they're my passion.
Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.
then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for
that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same
words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.
There are some people that are not into all the words.
There are some that would have you not use certain words.
George Carlin^^^

Source

Imagine your daughter, junior in high school, active drama student, takes honors classes comes home one day and tells you that she and 2 other friends auditioned a reading of the vagina monologues for an event sponsored by the literary magazine at John Jay High School in Cross River, a New York City suburb. Among the other readings was a student's original work and the football coach quoting Shakespeare.

Now lets say that the teachers asked your daughter specifically not to read what she auditioned because small children could be present and let's say that your daughter agreed not to.

On the day of the event your daughter performs the forbidden monologue and the community goes into an uproar over free speech. What do you do?

A. Join the community and fight for your daughters right to say the word vagina in front of small children.

B. Punish your daughter for disobeying an adult...

C. Praise your daughter for being strong willed and fighting for what she believes in?

D. Don't give a shit cause you have to be at your second job because we can't all live in New York City suburbs?

I believe in free speech, but in a school type forum, you should keep things g rated. If you want to perform the vagina monologues, set up your own event and warn people so they know what they are getting into. What do I know? They probably sucked anyways...

Here is a video of part of the show(not the performance from the news story but someone else doing a completely different part).


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