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Thank Feminism for Dirty Girls.


There comes a time in every journalist’s career when he is confronted with a story of such amazing significance that it provides the opportunity for the writer to really reach out and touch his readers’ hearts. Such stories bring a journalist true satisfaction. Unfortunately, this is not one of those instances: I’m stuck covering The Vagina Monologues.

To tell you the truth, I don’t even know why I’m wasting the ink to write about this awful event. After all, chocolate vaginas and sex toys don’t really fit into my motif as a writer. However, there is just something about a bunch of talking vaginas that is too offensive to ignore. So for those of you lucky enough to have missed the Cornell Women’s Resource Center’s staging of Eve Ensler’s depraved play The Vagina Monologues, I feel like I should issue a warning. What’s about to follow is pretty offensive.

On February 17 and 18, a number of Cornell students performed a staged reading of skits from feminist Eve Ensler’s outrageously irreverent play The Vagina Monologues. This performance marked the climax (pun intended) of this year’s V-Week celebration, which included such Ivy League activities as pin the clitoris on the vagina and a full-blown sex toy party. The stated purpose of Ensler’s skits is to “empower” women and to raise awareness on issues like rape and domestic violence.

However, before all of Cornell’s female students jump on the bandwagon, start grabbing their crotches, and screaming “girl power,” I’d like someone to explain to me exactly what a series of monologues about menstruation and pubic hair does to further the cause of women’s rights. After all, I would think a vulgar display like this would be disparaging to women. Yet, like all the other garbage the modern feminist movement shovels, somehow someone always buys into it.

Just to give you an idea of the kind of nonsense modern feminists have been peddling, I picked out some highlights from over the last few years. I think these instances speak for themselves.

Take this gem for example. In her ridiculous book The Frailty Myth, feminist author and activist Colette Dowling argues that women are just as athletically capable as men are and asserts the only reason they do not excel equally in sports is because society has conditioned women to believe they are weak. According to Ms. Dowling, if women were not indoctrinated like this they would dominate the NFL, NBA, and MLB leagues.

Here is one from just a few months ago. In trying to explain the disproportionate success of men in the fields of math and science, Harvard President Lawrence Summers suggested that such a gap might be caused by innate gender differences. The feminist response to this suggestion was not reasoned argument, but a reactionary uproar and a series of painful arm-twistings that eventually coerced President Summers into apologizing for his comments.

Or let’s take this delusional piece. In the February 13 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barrett authored an article which insisted men don’t necessarily prefer young beautiful women to successful women. According to these feminist scholars, a man would rather come home to a woman with a high intellect than one that resembled Jennifer Love-Hewitt.

I don’t think any fair-minded person would agree with any of the nonsense these modern feminists are propagating. But what compels them to say such crazy things? The answer is a lot more complex than you might think.

The driving force behind much of the modern feminist movement is the logic that since guys have been acting like savages for thousands of years, to be truly equal women have to join in on the fun. After all, why should men be free to hump everything in sight while women are forced to sit passively on the sidelines?

This is exactly the kind of failed logic that has engendered so many of America’s current problems. Historically, women have acted as the main civilizing force of men. By nature, women were the ones who were supposed to bring restraint to the relationship. However, when women started to feel the only way they can be free was by acting as morally depraved as men do, there was no more civilizing force and the whole system collapsed. The results of this collapse include such inimical social ills as the skyrocketing illegitimacy rate, the destruction of the family, and the killing of millions of children through licensed abortion.

What most women need to learn is that the road to equality is not paved with dildos and edible underwear, but with the self-respect to say no. Women can’t achieve equality by going out on weekends and whoring it up with a bunch of beer-soaked frat boys. That’s just giving in to what men want. If women really want to wield some power, they should try not giving it up so easily.

Now don’t get me wrong, I understand and sympathize with the reasons for the V-week celebration. Trying to stop violence against women is a very noble effort. However, I don’t understand what this misguided festival does to alleviate the problem. If anything, a monologue about a vagina is slighting to women.

Do you think proud women like Susan B. Anthony and Mary Wollstonecraft would have participated in such debauchery? Of course not! If these women had known their righteous quest for equal rights would one day degenerate into pin the clitoris on the vagina games, they may very well have relinquished their right to vote.

So I have a message for all of Cornell’s feminists out there. Stop talking about your vaginas! Not only is it disgusting and vulgar, but if you keep this up men are going to start to see you as nothing more than that—a bunch of vaginas.Cornell American

Nick K. graduated in 2007 from the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nsk23@cornell.edu.

 

Comments

Why don't you print "clean" material?
By: raccoon on 02/28/2005 at 4:20 PM
This is the one thing about the Cornell American that I have a problem with. In almost every issue, the main thing you talk about is sex, feminisim, and such. Are there not more uplifting things to talk about then "chocolate vagina's"? If you would be a bit "clean", I think I could really enjoy your paper.

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What should the American Talk about then?
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/2/2005 at 12:37 AM
The purpose of a conservative newspaper is to report outrageous activities of the Left and/or comment on them to bring balance.

We are in a culture war. that means: sex, race, God, and gays.

What uplifting things do you have to talk about? You should send them to the American or post them here.

In the meantime, I'll keep reading if the American keeps printing.
Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/1/2005 at 9:04 PM
Awesome article. I'm a student at RPI and V-Day recently infected our campus. There aren't enough girls here to have anything as extensive as all that but I completely agree with the sentiment in your paper. I consider myself a feminist and I detest V-Day and everything it stands for.

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Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/2/2005 at 12:30 AM
I don't like to use the word "feminist" (since I believe that the term now too narrowly defines a radical agenda). However, I consider myself a rebel from the patriarchy.

Feminism used to be about treating men and women equally. How sex toys and vulgar displays of sexuality promote that I have no idea.

--Sarah, '06
Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/10/2005 at 11:37 PM
good god -- what is it with the conservative Reich these days that its members find so threatening about women who forthrightly own their own sexuality? Why is such a "display" considered "disgusting and vulgar"? It's as if the author of this piece would prefer he lived in some fictional Leave it to Beaver fantasy world where women did all the cooking, cleaning, and child rearing, acquiesced to the demands of their husbands, and had no rights. Thankfully, those days are over. And we are better off because of it.

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clarification, please.
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/15/2005 at 1:04 AM
Can the author please clarify what he finds "disgusting and vulgar" about women discussing their sexuality in public? Is it some deep-sated Puritanical belief that women should be the acquiescent slaves to their male masters? Or is he just a misogynist who is afraid of strong, empowered women who don't give a damn what ultra up-tight Republicans think?

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Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/15/2005 at 1:09 PM
I think this article should have made a very big distinction between feminist theory and feminist practice. I for one am a 2nd degree feminist and a republican. The 2nd degree feminist theory is that women are equal to men in all areas of life that are physiologically possible and should be able to exercise their rights of equality. On the other hand the feminists you were talking about seem to be using feminism as loaded word to legitimize their activities. Personally I would take offense to the activities you described whether they were male or female. Feminism in theory is not the problem, how some people use the word as justification of their actions is. I also happened to see a very good rendition of the Vagina Monologues that was done in a tasteful and educational way, which seems to be nothing like what you are describing .

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Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/15/2005 at 4:30 PM
Madam,

You are "2nd degree deluded". There is no possible way the filth contained the Vagina Monologues could ever be performed in a tasteful and educational way.



good point
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/15/2005 at 5:14 PM
Good point -- I appreciate you raising the level of discourse in this thread. Another point worth raising, I've yet to see concrete evidence that the people described in the original article self-identified as "feminists" -- I would hate to think that the CA staff is just using the old leftist appellation of Feminist to stoke its own ideological underpinnings.

Feminism is of course not the problem. Just like "Republican" or "Christian" is not the problem for some on the so-called Left. Rather, it is how such subject positions and and terms are used to justify actions that fly in the face of their respective iterations. (Kind of like, say, "compassionate conservatism"...).

Enjoyed your post. Cheers.
Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/15/2005 at 8:57 PM
When is the new issue going to come online?

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Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 02/19/2006 at 7:06 PM
"By nature, women were the ones who were supposed to bring restraint to the relationship. However, when women started to feel the only way they can be free was by acting as morally depraved as men do, there was no more civilizing force and the whole system collapsed. "

So this basically says that men are supposed to act like brutes and women are supposed to be nice submissive little girls.

why do you think it's okay to make excuses for rape? So men are allowed to "hump everything in sight?" I guess then it's okay for one of you frat boys to date rape some girl, right?

there is no excuse for rape, stop making it acceptable.



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Re: Girls Gone Wild - Feminists Launch V-Week Smut Fest
By: Cornell American enthusiast on 03/16/2006 at 5:30 PM
Actually, what the author is trying to say is that men should act more like women. Go back and read it again, but this time make sure to check your assumptions at the door.

Also, this article has NOTHING to do with rape. Did you even read the thing.

 

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