(HT to the Anchoress, who rose from her sickbed in irritation about this whole... debacle.)
You do know what the "Vagina Monologs" are, right? No, I'm not going to tell you, go google it for yourself. Well, finally some college Republicans got sick of all the lewdness masquerading as "socially conscious art" and staged a satire: the "Penis Monologs."
Christina Hoff Somers, over at National Review posts Why can't they "Just Get Along"? However, there is some small problem with the administration over at Roger Williams University - they either have no sense of fair play, no sense of humor whatsoever, or both.
The P-Day satirists are the first to admit that their initiative is tasteless and crude. But they rightly point out that V-Day is far more extreme. They are shocked that the administration has come down hard on their good-natured spoof, when all along it has been completely accommodating to the in-your-face vulgarity of the vagina activists. [...]
The campus conservatives artfully (in the college sense of "artful") mimicked the V-Day campaign. They papered the school with flyers that said, “My penis is majestic” and “My penis is hilarious.” The caption on one handout read, “My Penis is studious.” It showed Testaclese reclining on a couch reading Michael Barone’s Hard America, Soft America.
“Testaclese” tipped the scales when he approached the university Provost, Edward J. Kavanagh, outside the student union. Apparently taking him/it for a giant mushroom, Provost Kavanagh cheerfully greeted him. But when Testaclese presented him with an honorary award as a campus “Penis Warrior,” the stunned official realized that it was no mushroom. After this incident, which was recorded on videotape, the promoters of P-Day were ordered to cease circulating their flyers and to keep Testaclese off campus grounds. Mindful of how school officers had never once protested any of the antics of Vagina warriors, the P-warriors did not comply. The Testaclese costume was then confiscated and formal charges followed.
It is easy to understand why school officials would not want a six-foot phallus wandering around campus; nor why they would ask students not to paper the college with posters describing all the things it likes to do. But that is just the sort of thing the vagina warriors have been doing, year after year, on hundreds of campuses. In fact, P-Day at Roger Williams was mild by comparison. Wesleyan College hosted a “C***” workshop; Penn State held a “C***”-fest. At Arizona State, students displayed a 40-foot inflatable plastic vagina. It was not confiscated and no one was ever threatened with probation.
Be still, my beating heart! If this crudity is what college-bound youth have to look forward to, instead of a solid education... *sigh* My distaste is profound, especially since the "conservatives" had to descend to such depths of vulgarity to make their point about the cesspit of vile smut that is the "Vagina Dialogs."
Gadzooks. It makes me want to puke. Excuse me......
