Higher Learning Reaches New Low with Vulgar "V***** Monologues"

TFP ^ | 12-16-04 | TFP Student Action

[concernedAmerican1]

TFP Student Action Launches Protest

Scandalizing students nationwide, 518 colleges and universities intend to allow performances of the lewd "V***** Monologues" play on their campuses, a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, graphic descriptions of masturbation and lesbian behavior.

Perhaps the most disturbing fact is that dozens of prominent Catholic universities have permitted this play on campus year after year during the months of February and March, including Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, Saint Louis University, Saint Francis University, Fordham University, Loyola Marymount University and others.

It is difficult to fathom how any Catholic institution of higher learning would give open forum to this play, which explicitly condones mortal sin, and promotes the corrosive agenda of the sexual revolution on campus.

You Can Join the Protest

TFP Student Action has launched its protest against the corporate sponsors of V-Day, the group that issues licenses for the "V***** Monologues" play. To sign and send your e-protest, just visit www.tfp.org/sa

"Our next step will be to contact Catholic university officials where the "V***** Monologues" is scheduled and ask them to immediately cancel the immoral play," said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie. " We hope to generate one million protest messages with this campaign."

Protests are effective. In fact, 16 Catholic colleges canceled the play earlier this year because of protests. Hundreds of protest letters, e-mails, and phone calls flooding into university offices can cause public relations nightmares for college presidents. TFP applauds the university officials that banned the play.

Concerned Catholic Parents

Catholic parents with children at these institutions are deeply distraught. Many assume their tuition goes towards a good "Catholic" education, that somehow guarantees their children's formation in matters of Faith and morals. However, by allowing events such as the lustful "V***** Monologues" on Catholic campuses, administration officials send mixed messages to students, and jeopardize students' Faith.

Bishop Criticizes Production

Bishop John M. D'Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese, Indiana, criticized the "V***** Monologues" in a two-page statement published earlier this year. He said it should have never played at the University of Notre Dame. "The play violates the truth about women, the truth about sexuality, the truth about male and female and the truth about the human body."

Bishop D'Arcy continues: "Freedom in the Catholic tradition, and even in the American political tradition, is not the right to do anything. Freedom in the academy is always subject to a particular discipline. It is never an absolute… Freedom in the Catholic tradition is not the right to do this rather than that. That would be an entirely superficial idea of freedom… Freedom is the capacity to choose the good."

Will Catholic colleges listen?

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You can now send your e-protest to the corporate sponsors of V-Day by clicking here. V-Day 2005 sponsors include BARNEYS NEW YORK, Bobbi Brown, Dramatist Play Service, Eileen Fisher, Hearst, Lifetime Television, Luna, Marie Claire, Tampax, Time Inc. and Vosges Haut Chocolate.

The success of this effort depends on how many people join this peaceful protest. To forward this message to your friends, please click here. Thank you for defending morality. www.tfp.org/sa

[MineralMan]

Or they could invite the Australian "Puppetry of the Penis" play to come to campus. Now there's an odd thing, fer shure.

[jigsaw]

Thanks for posting this.

With a little Googling, I just discovered my religious-based college of years ago has been part of this crap.

When I return their next financial solicitation, rather than a usual check, they will receive some choice words.

[starfish923]

Disregard previous post.
I found my way....anyway.
Thanks for bringing up the subject.

The Vagina Monologues has annoyed me to no end, from its sordid, coarse, disgusting, crude, vulgar beginning.
The most annoying is to see the boobus tubus interview moms and young daughters who saw the play together...with mom billing and cooing over how WONderful the play was. HORRIBLE message for our entire society.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Thanks for clearing that up, I was thinking "The Voodoo Monologues"

[starfish923]

I really like what Burke had to say:

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths." — Edmund Burke

and

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites--in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;--in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;--in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke

So did I.
Well worth a second posting.

[TChris]

It's a common tactic of Satan to blend the vulgar, profane and abusive into a mixture of truth, near-truth and tortured perversions of truth. Opponents of the V. Monologues will quickly be labeled as mysogynists and right-wing extremists -- you can see the knee-jerk from here. That's not to mention any objections to the overt man-bashing woven throughout the presentation.

I don't personally know any conservative who advocates the abuse of women. I know plenty who find such vulgar and explicit treatment of such sacred subjects as female sexuality and motherhood to be heartbreaking and repulsive. I also know some who don't think male-bashing is necessarily beneficial to the effort of respect and reverence for womanhood by men.

The goal of stopping violence against women is, indeed, a noble one. However, the perversion female sexuality and verbal decimation of all masculinity obviously introduce a littany of problems too. The V. Monologues is a pathologically warped approach to a real problem. It is a concentrated, distilled venom to be sprayed angrily and equally over every man, abusive or not.

[monday]

"That's why some people chose not to repeat the title, not to play into their feminist game."

I guess you don't care if people know what you are talking about?

[gaspar]

The depth of the impact of Liberation Theology has never been comprehended by United States Catholics. Nor has the sickness at the heart of the Society of Jesus. It came late, but the Catholic Church in America is a shakey institution, and it isn't simply the pederasty issue that sticks out. Check the schools where this noxious play appears and the orders that support such filth on campus.

[little jeremiah]

Good comments. Another fact that is often ignored is that the more sexual relationships are based on ephemeral attractions, without any bond of lifelong faithful marriage, the more anger and violence is likely.

Every relationship has problems. When two people have promised before God to remain faithful and loyal, they will often try harder to work things out; they have a higher purpose to remain together than mere sexual gratification.

When sexual attraction is the main reason for the relationship, and it inevitably lessens in the fireworks department, or someone gets fat, or there are children who may be viewed as accidental, or there is unfaithfulness, anger ususally results. What happens next? Often violence. And women start it or participate in it more often than is reported.

To sum it up, chastity before marriage and fidelity after is the best remedy for peaceful relationships. (It also helps for people not to drink to excess - drugs and alcohol are often a factor in spousal abuse.)

[TChris]

...chastity before marriage and fidelity after is the best remedy for peaceful relationships.

I hope you meant, "the best recipe for peaceful relationships"! :-)

This is a lesson our society seems dead-set to learn the hard way...again.

[TChris]

I believe his intent was a good one. Perhaps we should restore a sense of reverence for female (and male too, for that matter) sexuality in the way we speak about it. I, for one, appreciate some modesty and tact when discussing sacred matters. Note that this is a far cry from declaring the topic to be dirty or such nonsense. The original poster was calling attention to the fact that the V. (V for Vile?) Monologues blasts respect, modesty, tact and reverence right out of the water.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Maybe all that is true, but I don't understand why someone can't type or read the word "Vagina". There's nothing wrong with the word itself, and in my humble opinion treating the word as a dirty thing, as the original poster did, could in theory lead to a lack of reverence for females, as little boys everywhere begin to titter and tatter over the word "vagina", giggling to themselves like Beavis and Butthead "You said Vagina huh huh huh"...

But, maybe that's just me :)

[MineralMan]

And the points made by many here are good, as well. The human body is not a vile thing. The word "vagina" is not an obscene word.

By treating it as such, we play right into the hands of those who want to make us believe that there is some magical quality in the word.

It is simply a word to describe a part of a woman's anatomy. If we use it that way, and don't snicker about it, or hide the word with euphemisms, we'll go a long way toward taking it out of the hands of the feminists.

[newgeezer]

It's probably best just to ignore the "progressive" ones around here. After all, they're much more "highly evolved" than the people of a couple generations ago, when terms such as that were not uttered by decent folks except in a clinical setting.

Some people's kids...

[starfish923]

Thanks for posting the Cardinal Newman url.

[TChris]

...treating the word as a dirty thing, as the original poster did

And that's my point. I don't think it was necessarily because he/she thinks the word is dirty, but perhaps because he/she feels it is sacred.

[DarkSavant]

The funny part was the girl was thirteen, they changed it to sixteen amidst protests.

"One scene describes the seduction of a sexually inexperienced 16-year-old girl by a 24-year-old lesbian, who first intoxicates the girl with vodka. Instead of presenting the incident as sexual abuse that would be illegal in many states, the play declares it the girl’s “surprising, unexpected and politically correct salvation.” "

also, they edited out "yeah, it was a rape, but it was a good rape"

A loved how they spent three segments applauding people who set up workshops to pleasure themselves, then throwing in one birth at the end, which the author admits was an afterthought.