Hat tip: Best of the Web
In preparing for their production of “The Vagina Monologues,” University of Michigan feminists are seeking to preempt a reaction that crippled a TVM production at the University of Oregon. (Note: Since this occurred on an American university campus, the reaction that crippled the production wasn’t “Talking vaginas? Are you out of your minds?”) The Michigan Daily reports that
Late last month, producers and directors of the show announced their intention to push for an all-minority cast. Some students have deemed the new casting policy reverse discrimination, but supporters of the show say they view the change as a way to rectify biases of the show and reignite interest among the student body. … [Former cast member Valerie] Warner said that while there is merit in creating a show from the perspective of women of color because it is a perspective not often offered,1 it is only a part of what the Vagina Monologues are all about.
What crippled the Oregon TVM production was, of course, a protest over the on-stage vaginas not being diverse enough.2 This protest yielded one of the great protest photos of the past half-century (with such slogans as “Not all vaginas are skinny, white, and straight” and “Warning: Hostile Vagina”):
Notes
1. It is true, for instance, that not one Nobel Prize Winner has been a minority vagina.
2. Well, at least the prolix pudenda can’t complain about being silenced by The Man …
