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Vagina Monologues banned as not inclusive of transgenders - Great moment in the Cultural Revolution

Comrades: The Vagina Monologues must be condemned! All who have attended this thing in the past must confess their aggression against transgenders.

Campus Reform reports:

Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s college in Massachusetts, is retiring its annual production of the Vagina Monologues this year because the play is not inclusive of transgender students.

…In a school-wide email from the Theatre Board, a representative from the group, Erin Murphy, explained the problems with the play and the reasoning behind its discontinuation.

“At its core, the show offers an extremely narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman…Gender is a wide and varied experience, one that cannot simply be reduced to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who have participated in the show have grown increasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive,” the email, obtained by Campus Reform, said.
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Mount Holyoke re-defined “what it means to be a woman” last year when it decided to begin accepting transgendered students.

The annual production of the play is part of a country-wide tradition to perform Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues on Valentine’s Day to raise awareness about gender-based violence and usually coincides with the V-Day campaign. The proceeds are donated to sexual assault prevention organizations or women’s rights organizations.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/01/15/college-decides-vagina-monologues-not-feminist-enough/
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