University cancels Vagina Monologues because 'not all women have vaginas' :skip:

[Roland Coltrane]

trehs are at it again brehs

EMU group ends 'The Vagina Monologues,' citing exclusion of some women
Updated Nov 13; Posted Nov 13



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Gallery: "The Vagina Monologues"





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By Martin Slagter

mslagter@mlive.com

YPSILANTI, MI - Eastern Michigan University's Women's Resource Center will no longer host productions of "The Vagina Monologues," noting that the play's version of feminism excludes some women.

The WRC announced its decision in an email, which came after the center evaluated responses from a survey. Survey respondents opposing the production consistently indicated they were concerned that the play centers on cisgender women, that the play's version of feminism excludes some women, including trans women, and that overall, "The Vagina Monologue" lacks diversity and inclusion.

Modifying the script to the play written by Eve Ensler is not an option, due to copyright laws, the WRC stated.

"We feel that making this decision is in line with the WRC mission of recognizing and celebrating the diverse representations of women on campus along with the overall mission of the Department of Diversity and Community Involvement, in which the WRC is housed, of supporting and empowering minoritized students and challenging systems and structures that perpetuate inequities," the email from the WRC said. "We truly believe that it is important to center our minoritized students and this decision is in line with this mission driven value."

The survey was launched as a result of conversations with current students, as well as feedback from a WRC workshop titled "Not all women have vaginas," during the 2017-18 academic year.

According to the WRC, both brought up conflicting ideas and concerns about the effectiveness and relevance of "The Vagina Monologues," an episodic play written by activist Eve Ensler in 1994, offering a series of first-person narratives in which women speak about their vaginas.

"This created a need to ask the question: Do we still need 'The Vagina Monologues?' And, are 'The Vagina Monologues' still relevant to next generation feminists?" the email from the WRC says.

Some survey participants wanting the production to continue said the play is the first introduction into feminism for many, challenging individuals to think differently about a variety of issues affecting women.

The WRC's email noted that "many of the same people" in support of the production felt that the "The Vagina Monologues" should be modified or accompanied by a series of workshops that address the diversity and inclusion that it is lacking.

"It is important to note that due to copyright laws, we are unable to change the script," the WRC's email said.

Representatives from the WRC were not available for additional comment.

EMU is not the first university to reconsider its position in hosting "The Vagina Monologues."

American University's Women's Initiative chose to change the event to the "Breaking Ground Monologues" in an effort to "broaden the focus from specifically female genitalia to multiple identities and bodies."

In 2015, a student group at Mount Holyoke College decided to cancel its annual performance of production, saying the play excludes the experiences of transgender women who don't have a vagina.

I remember a few years ago when they really in earnest began to push this "LGBTQ rights is just like Black people fighting for their Civil Rights it's the same fight "

how does a group that makes up .01% of the population get to bully everybody into accepting something that's the equivalent of saying "2+2=5 " and everyone else has to be like or even



how far are real women willing to let this go


you already got dudes in high school with wigs on going out there and obliterating biological female competition, breaking records and whatnot. trehs out here doing mma breaking brehettes faces and shyt, literally



how do LGBTQ folks( a smaller subset of the population than we are) get to this level of punking the shyt out of everybody and making them submit to their demands so easily, and decades after the Civil Rights movement the first thing that happens after a Black person gets killed is the media running to see if there were reports of them misbehaving in kindergarten so they can somehow justify it



these are all rhetorical questions of course


I'm just curious to see where all this leads to eventually, if there's gonna be real pushback, or if this is just going to continue to it's logical conclusion

 

[UpAndComing]

 

[General Mills]

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

They wouldn't be able to bully folks like this unless real women didn't give them support to do so. Real women are the true culprits behind this movement and it's like they don''t see how it's a detrimental to them in the long run

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Shyt is getting real for all these inclusivity clowns. Give up your women's rights to trehs

 

[Bondye Vodou]

 

[Citi Trends]

how does a group that makes up .01% of the population get to bully everybody into accepting something

Because they’re still white men

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Shyt is getting real for all these inclusivity clowns. Give up your women's rights to trehs

I'm gonna be dying if trannies flip the script on real women and become the leaders of feminism telling real women to sit down, we got this now

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Because they’re still white men

Exactly. Not only do they want to jump to the front of the line, they want to jump in front of all the straight white men.

 

[Big Blue]

 

[ThrobbingHood]

First they take their gold in sports and now this. shyt’s hilarious to me. You reap what you sow.

 

[Heafcliffe]

 

[iFuxWiddit]

treh

 

[Roland Coltrane]

so just because "all women don't have vaginas " the ones that do don't get to talk about 'em now

 

[Devilinurear]

Y'all dudes are never happy. Women have rights gay dudes find a way to take it away and your mad.

Dudes find a loophole to beat up women which we should be able to do and y'all mad. I don't get it?