College Students Won’t Perform ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Because It’s Too Gender Exclusive
The slippery slope of the new social justice feminism.
10.26.2016
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Theater groups in colleges across America are refusing to perform the uber-feminist play The Vagina Monologues, claiming its definition of gender is too “antiquated” and exclusive of other identities.
“[The play] represents a binary representation of gender,” wrote American University junior Kendall Baron. In her view, it’s very old-fashioned to believe “that in order to be a woman, you must have a vagina.”
As a member of AU’s Women’s Initiative, Baron and her peers are searching high and low for monologues that “make this a place for all bodies regardless of gender identity.”
Students at Whitman College have been refusing the outdated feminist play for the last three years, according toHeatStreet. Instead, theater groups have been performing a “Breaking Ground” show where each person talks about his or her or his/her own type of body.
The Vagina Monologues is even off-limits at Mount Holyoke College because students there are “increasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive.” Oddly enough, this is an all-female college.
The play’s writer Eve Ensler is surprised by modern feminists turning on her idea but says it was “never 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,” Ensler added. “In the play, I never defined a woman as a person with a vagina.”
That’s okay because science has done that already but apparently that’s not a subject they teach in college anymore.
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