More on the Vagina Monologues
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- Date: 28 Feb 2006 01:41:04 -0800
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Confusing awareness with perversion
"Vagina Monologues" are a wolf in sheep's clothing
by Lindsay Christensen
Guest Opinion
February 23, 2006
Perhaps you have mistakenly purchased tickets to see Eve Ensler's
"The Vagina Monologues." If not, save your time and money. This
production has the paraded intent to stand against domestic violence
and sexual assault, yet engages in profound hypocrisy. The double
standard is exemplified in the monologue "The Little Coochi Snorcher
That Could," in which a 24-year-old woman invites a 13-year-old girl
into her home, intoxicates her, teaches her how to masturbate and rapes
her. This repulsive account ends with the 13-year-old declaring, "Now
people say it was a kind of rape ... Well, I say if it was rape, it was
a good rape." Ensler could write similar pieces for the North
American Man-Boy Love Association, they would be wildly popular among
such subscribers.
To the Boise State Women's Center, who is sponsoring this production,
I ask: when is a rape a "good rape?" If this little girl were to
call your acclaimed rape crisis line, would you tell her to not worry,
because it's a "good" kind of rape? No rape is ever a good rape.
"The Vagina Monologues," are wolves in sheep's clothing. By
pretending to stand against domestic violence and supporting this
behavior, it advocates sex crimes in the worst way. It sends a
contorted message to would be offenders that as long as you are raping
a child to "sexually liberate" them, then, according to Ensler and
the Women's Center, it's acceptable, even right.
What Eve also forgets to inform you is that this pedophile committed a
series of felonies. Giving alcohol to a minor is the least of her legal
worries. Idaho Code Section 18-1508 states that the above committed
offense, "whether between persons of the same or opposite sex," is
punishable by a lifetime sentence in state prison.
When asked why he would prosecute this felony, Assistant United States
Attorney Jim Peters - a former prosecutor for the National Center for
the Protection of Child Abuse with 27 years of similar experience -
had the following to say: "Children are not emotionally prepared to
understand the decisions they are making. When the other party is an
adult and is 11-12 years older than them, the power difference is
enormous, and the adult will manipulate the victim into making
decisions they are not prepared to make."
The impacts of child sexual abuse are innumerable. The National Center
for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder states that it's effects include,
but are not limited to: PTSD and/or anxiety; depression and thoughts of
suicide; sexual anxiety and disorders; poor body image and low
self-esteem; and the use of unhealthy behaviors, such as alcohol abuse,
drug abuse, self-mutilation, or bingeing and purging, to help mask
painful emotions related to the abuse.
If Ensler and the Women's Center stand against sexual assault, they
should include the rest of the story, showing society the terrible
effects of this horrible crime. The "hero" of their monologue would
be subject to the law, as all sex offenders should.
Lindsay Christensen is a former student at Boise State
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