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luna_k in liberalrage

People Are Being Particularly Stupid Today

Feb 08, 2007 17:32

Thanks to girlfromsouth for emailing me about this bit of stupidity.
A theatre in Florida has had to change the title of a charity production of The Vagina Monologues on its marquee, after a woman complained that it was offensive.

The new name? They've decided on 'The Hoohaa Monologues'.

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Comments 11

roisinmachine February 9 2007, 01:06:17 UTC

isn't the whole "vagina isn't a dirty word" thing, like.....the point of the entire play to begin with?

idiots.

abbylee February 9 2007, 02:49:52 UTC

So what the fuck do you tell the child when she asks what a HooHaa is?

thisficklemob February 9 2007, 02:56:45 UTC

What you should have said when she asked what a vagina is: "Ask your mother."

patrickdean February 9 2007, 13:32:47 UTC

You talk in adult terms. Or as about adult as the person who complained about the sign in the fist place. You say; "A HooHaa is the same thing as a weewee. You know, a whaa-wee. A pee pee hole. A Hoonanny. A troploppy. A Schmomomomomo. Are you getting any of this?"

abbylee February 9 2007, 18:15:16 UTC

Exactly. I fail to understand how changing the word to a euphemism can in any way solve the problem that she's claiming to have.

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thisficklemob February 9 2007, 20:05:28 UTC

Well, it sort of depends how old she is. If she's precocious able to read the sign at four or something...

Actually, this reminds me of a speaker I heard on the radio saying that we need to get over our fear of the whole waist-to-knee area and simply teach little kids what their body parts as soon as they're learning those things (age 2-3). She was like, "You know how it goes: this is my head, these are my shoulders, these are my knees..." She said it was the start of good sex education and NOT being totally hung up and shameful about our bodies.

She also argued against telling a little girl she had a vagina: "It's like telling a little boy he has vas deferens. He does, but he can't see it." She said the better term was vulva.

Of course, this can lead to awkward moments. Apparently they took their three?-year-old daughter to a Georgia O'Keefe exhibit, and she said, "Look, Daddy, vulva!" in a nice loud voice. In an equally loud voice he went, "The car, she wants to know where the car is." *snort*