Posted on 06/18/2012 7:23:01 PM PDT by presidio9
A state lawmaker who says she was barred from speaking in the Michigan House because Republicans objected to her saying "vagina" during debate over anti-abortion legislation performed "The Vagina Monologues" on the Statehouse steps — with a hand from the author.
Eve Ensler, whose groundbreaking play about women's sexuality still packs theaters 16 years after it debuted, oversaw Monday night's performance by Democratic state Rep. Lisa Brown, 10 other lawmakers and several actresses.
Capitol facilities director Steve Benkovsky estimated about 2,500 spectators — women and men — watched the play in downtown Lansing from lawn chairs and blankets. Billed on Facebook as the "Vaginas Take Back the Capitol!" event, the combination play and protest included political signs and chants of "Vagina! Vagina!"
Ensler, who flew in from California, where she's overseeing production of her new play, said she was thrilled to be involved and likened the punishment meted out by the Republican leadership of the state House to "the Dark Ages."
"If we ever knew deep in our hearts that the issue about abortion ... was not really about fetuses and babies, but really men's terror of women's sexuality and power, I think it's fully evidenced here," Ensler told The Associated Press by phone Monday before arriving in Lansing.
"We're talking about the silencing of women, we're talking about censoring people for saying a body part," she said. "Half of these people who are trying to regulate vaginas, they can't even say the word."
Brown made her comments during debate last week on legislation that supporters say would make abortions safer but that opponents say would make it much harder for women to get abortions. While speaking against a bill that would require doctors to ensure abortion-seekers haven't been coerced into ending their pregnancies,
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Well.... they couldn’t get her to clam up.
Without even reading down the thread...I saw this story elsewhere.
It’s not the word that got her in trouble. She basically accused the speaker of wanting to RAPE her.
Both Brown and Byrum were out of control which is why they were given a time out. They wee accusing others of rape, attempting to enter ridiculous time wasting legislation etc.
They were throwing a tantrum.
Too bad that doesn't make a good acronym. We need something short, easy to spell.
No, Eve, deep in your hearts you're just enraged that people don't give a damn what's between your legs, and you're all throwing an endless "typical-female" sh!tfit over it, trying to gain enough power to destroy the world because it didn't tell you you were pretty enough.
Your rage is nothing but toxic narcissism, and the sign of mental illness.
> Nope, not touching that with a ten foot pole.
Hmmmmph. Braggart. ;-)
Karnak says, "What are, Pathetic, brainless, leftist attention whores."
How do these libs hold the hammer when they are nailing themselves to these crosses?
I have seen this story on other sites for days now.
They QUOTE the entire thing, but claim she was punished for saying “vagina.”
I think some of them really don’t understand that she was accusing the speaker of wanting to rape her with the “no means no” comment.
Maybe she was singing from her diaphragm.
Well... it's not easy stabbing others in the back, and dancing on their dead corpses to gain wealth and power.
Why can't we just build robot girls and boys that we can throw away (or recycle) when we 'tire' of their 'affections'?
Hhhmmpph. Probably sounded like KD Lang.
Well, the Japanese are already doing that, so what’s next?
More likely that he was thinking about hitting her in the head with a shovel, isn't it?
Robot boys and girls. Yes.
That is what these evil feminazis are all about-—taking all of humanity out of people. Reducing us to a body of no meaning and worth, to be used in disgusting, debasing ways which remove self-esteem and dignity and chance for long-term happiness. Sickening nihilists.
Ease trade restrictions ?
She should be wearing a pentagram.
She looks like a man in drag.
It really isn’t funny, but I appreciate your effort at humor. The robot makers over there are making children and tenns and adult females, with complete ‘anatomical characteristics’. I reads on an FR thread a few years ago that Japanese men will buy a whole family and have them in his apartment to fulfill the silent but present function of a dutiful family. How sad to live in such loneliness!
TRUE HAPPINESS, long-term, is only found in one place. It comes from within, not from without.
Unfortunately, our society is based on mass belief that it is from 'without'. And that getting EVERYTHING YOU WANT is Happiness.
God gives us what we 'need' (and sometimes it sucks)
Lucifer offers us what we 'want'. (to put it in simple religious terms).
Which is what this 'story' is all about.
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