I had to clean up the colloquial saying somehow so that I wouldn't get banned.
Posted on 01/29/2005 2:03:19 PM PST by Perseverando
A week before The Women’s Center will host the Vagina Monologues, Vaginia workshops are being held across campus.
Andrew D. Mager
News Assistant
The annual V-Day drive is in full effect, and volunteers from the Women's Center are working hard to promote the Vagina Monologues, a production that celebrates women's sexuality and strength and exposes the violations that women endure throughout the world.
The Women's Center will host the event at the Haymarket Theatre, Feb. 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 6 at 2 p.m.
The Vagina Monologues is a theatrical performance featuring female students, faculty and women from the community who speak about their most sacred private part, says Christine Dennis, Women's Center V-Day advisor.
"All the proceeds go to organizations that support services for victims of violence against women," said Dennis.
Eighty-five percent of the proceeds will go to the Women's Resource Center of the New River Valley. Ten percent will go to Women in Iraq, an organization set up to help change violent conditions for women and girls in that country, and the other five percent will go to International Women in Need, Dennis said.
Virginia Tech raised over $12,000 the last time the event was held in 2003 and plans to raise even more this year said Dennis. This year’s tickets cost $12 each for the general public and $10 for students.
“It is a huge donation. You rarely get a donation of that caliber on any day of the week,” said Pat Brown, executive director of the Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley.
“I know it’s a huge amount of work for the community of Virginia Tech,” she said. “We are just so delighted; it’s just such a gift.”
"Vagina Pops," chocolate lollipops molded in the shape of vaginas, are now on sale on the first floor of Squires.
"The best part of my job is watching people walk by my booth and look twice when the see the word "vagina" on my sign," said Aaran Kelley, publicity program coordinator at the Women's Center.
Kelley was selling these lollipops for $1 each and enjoying all of the support that she saw from people passing by for classes.
"It's very touching at times, because it does talk about violence against women, but it's also amazingly funny, because you have these old women talking about their vaginas," Kelley said about the upcoming performance.
Many think “Vagina Monologues” would only cater to the female audience, but Dennis explains that male turnout has always been outstanding.
"A lot of guys come to this event. A good deal of it is really funny, but a lot of it is very serious," she said. "A lot of it is very enlightening for men."
The Women's Center stresses the importance of openly using the word "vagina."
“We tend to not say the word vagina, as though there is something wrong with the female body part," said Dennis. "If we can be more open about it, we can be more open about problems associated with that body part."
Prediction: This is gonna be one of those threads ;-)
The Vagina Monologues is SO 1999. I should go to this and keep yelling "TAKE IT OFF".
"The Women's Center stresses the importance of openly using the word "vagina."
All I can say to this is PENIS! PENIS! PENIS!
Maybe they can have a workshop on how to perform statutory lesbian rape as well.
If there is one thing I do not understand it's a woman's body. For a man it's simple, if the champagne bottle has too much pressure, simply "pop" the cork and release the pressure. And if you have sex, make sure it's only with your wife.
Hardy Har Har! A barrell of laughs these sicko feministas.
The Collegiate Times gives us the word vaginia on their website. Would that be a vagina workshop in Virginia or a reference to Virginia's vagina? I'm confused.
lol cute ... the superpower discoveres a new interesting body part.
I once shocked a texan by telling him that we have public saunas in germany where people of both sexes that don't know each other and never met before are sitting together sweating naked and eat frozen orange slices...
...thats maybe how we discovered the vagina long before you ;-)
apparently these people don't see an adult lesbian liquoring up a 14 year old girl and raping her as "domestic violence". They also don't seem to realize that mixing monologues about masturbation and orgasm noises with stories about rape and sexual abuse trivializes the latter.
Is there a Young Republicans group on campus? How about if they sell "Penis Pops"??
"The annual P-Day drive is in full effect, and volunteers from the Men's Center are working hard to promote the Penis Monologues, a production that celebrates men's sexuality and strength and exposes the violations that men endure throughout the world....
"Penis Pops," chocolate lollipops molded in the shape of penises, are now on sale on the first floor of Squires. "The best part of my job is watching people walk by my booth and look twice when the see the word "penis" on my sign," said Aaran Kelley, publicity program coordinator at the Men's Center.
Kelley was selling these lollipops for $1 each and enjoying all of the support that he saw from people passing by for classes. "It's very touching at times, because it does talk about violence against men, but it's also amazingly funny, because you have these old men talking about their penises," Kelley said about the upcoming performance....
Remember, gentlemen.....sucrose based confections are oh so very sweet and titillate the taste buds but female genitals won't cause corrosive effect of the dental apparatus.
You asked for it, Ms. Inspectorette. :-)
I once shocked a texan by telling him that we have public saunas in germany where people of both sexes that don't know each other and never met before are sitting together sweating naked and eat frozen orange slices...
...thats maybe how we discovered the vagina long before you ;-)
LOL, cute. Old Europe shocked a Texan (I seriously doubt it).
Since Old Europe officially existed before the state of Texas, maybe you did discover the vagina before the Texans.
However, I'll bet Texans can enlighten you about the 1001 ways (at this counting) to use one. 8-)
Paying even a dime to listen to an old lady talk about her vagina (or an old man talk about his penis) is simply too weird for me.
(BTW - I am in awe of your flowery prose ;-)
I had to clean up the colloquial saying somehow so that I wouldn't get banned.
I heard the FUNNIEST thing on Irish television tonight.
A very well known British SOAP Opera actress (she's on Coronation Street - the biggest, and longest running Soap Opera in the UK) was interviewed on Irish TV.
Seemingly she was in a version of the 'Vagina Monologues' in Ireland earlier this year. (News to me, I didn't know it was staged over here).
In her interview she said: 'It was great, what a fantastic experience. I don't think it was advertised over here. I don't know why that was? I guess, people thought it should be. So everyone in the audience was there by word of mouth. I was back playing in cold theatres in front of an audience of 25. It was good for me to go back to that'.
Ha!!!! I laughed. I laughed loudly, and thought..'God Bless Ireland'. *LOL*
Should I get you a ticket or have we hit the wall?
As I tell my kids when they discover a new expression and try to repeat it until I am pulling out my roots, "It's been done. You've worn a hole in it. Find something else now".
OK guys. You've done this three years in a row. It's time to move on. Let's discover the concept of "fresh". The first year it was shocking, now it's BORING.
I know, it's just me.
Ironic, that the state named for the virgin queen, hosts a discussion...of female body parts.
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