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...reaches a wide variety of folks,” Rankin says. “They want to be involved in the show, because there are few shows with only women in the cast.”Bryant’s favorite monologue is called “Reclaiming Cunt.” It involves the actress leading the audience in a chant of the word “cunt,” a term that is often used as an obscenity, in order to reclaim the beauty of the word. Some believe the word was derived from the goddess Cunina...
...responsible consumption falls upon those who surf the World Wide Web, our legal system must also shift to cope with the reputational harm caused by Internet libel. Take for example JuicyCampus.com whose “Most Discussed” section hosts the conversation, “Bitch vs. Cunt: You Decide!” This thread has over 100 replies vilifying two students at Tulane University. The starting post explicitly gives the full names of both girls and is indisputably defamatory. Although such speech in print or by a website publisher would usually warrant a lawsuit, Section...
...first few pages of its coursepack—a full $15 binder—shock readers with repetitive mention of the word “cunt,” sketches of vaginas, and of course, a Sappho poem. While women are making headway in society, the workplace and politics, FemSex’s claims that, on the cultural liberation front, women and their sexuality have been left behind. But while the class provides a useful outlet for some repressed souls on campus, the irony of its mission eclipses its value...
...post to the Quincy open list last weekend proclaimed that Saturday was the “LAST NIGHT TO CUNT IT UP!!!” The e-mail referred not to About Hair’s grand re-opening, but rather the final showing of “The Vagina Monologues.” But there was something special about this year’s show that appealed not only to women, but to people with non-traditional gender identities—even to those without vaginas. For the first time, Harvard’s adaptation of Eve Ensler?...
...because the bottom-line of the play is a celebration of self-love, in the end both male and female audience members were on their feet. The terms “cunt,” “coochi snorcher,” “pussy,” and “vagina” are transformed into signifiers of more than just a body part. As “Monologues” makes clear, they can also cover the diverse range of women who all have a story to tell...