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To: E who wrote (373)	3/1/2002 9:39:26 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I think I saw that rant (on the LWP?) - it was superbly funny. (it was yours, wasn't it, with the 'lifestyles of the rich vagina' riff?) I visualised it being said out loud, ideally as a prologue to the main 'performance'... deflate the pompous victims somewhat, and maybe inspire them to take up this century's battles rather than rehashing the earlier ones. (A theme that could recur here...)

To: E who wrote (373)	3/1/2002 9:46:56 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21057

Hi E, I saw the Vagina Monologues yesterday with ten other women, mostly writers and poets. I thought I was in a freaking time warp! I sat there, surrounded by laughing women of all ages (if there were more than 20 men in the audience,I'd be surprised) and thinking "What year is this, 1972?" It was so sad to me, thirty years later and with daughters approaching adulthood, to hear women thrilled to scream "cunt" in public, to hear them gasp at the news of genital mutilation and institutionalized rape in Bosnia. I was very angry at the section of the play which romanticized the sexual education of a sixteen year old girl (who'd been the victim of male sexual abuse as a child) by a 24 year old woman. Since when is sex between a 24 year old and a sixteen year old legal and acceptable? And the insinuation that the answer to the excruciating trauma of childhood sexual abuse can be found in lesbian sex almost had me screaming. Haven't we made any progress in terms of our sexuality in the past thirty years? Are there really women out there who've never looked at their vaginas? And do we still think that the fair way to cope with the physical and emotional differences between the sexes is to deride the penis and exalt the clitoris? "I am Woman, hear me roar" BFD. I'm more interested in women who can think, laugh, and respect the other half of the human race.