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To: Bill who wrote (182278)10/10/2006 8:56:41 PM
From: Ichy Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794221
 
The Vagina Monologues championed sex between an adult and a teen as some sort of awakening. It's called normalizing the perverse through art. What purpose it serves, I couldn't tell you.


It serves to normalize what may not be normal to most people, to make socially acceptable that which may not be



To: Bill who wrote (182278)10/10/2006 10:09:32 PM
From: Rambi  Respond to of 794221
 
I hated VM, but while I am not in favor of "normalizing the perverse" (thanks, I like that phrase), I wouldn't censor VM on that basis as I don't believe that was what VM was about. That one monologue was but a tiny piece of a whole.
Still, many were made uncomfortable by the show, and I can understand why. I think my husband would have HATED it, and we have friends whose daughter appeared in it, and it was hard for them.


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