Posted on 11/20/2018 11:53:15 AM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Okay. Are you ready for this story out of a college in Michigan, Eastern Michigan University? Eastern Michigan University has canceled all productions… (interruption) You’re nodding. (interruption) Have you heard of this in there? (interruption) Oh, you haven’t. Wait ’til you hear this. Eastern Michigan University is canceling all production and performance of the Vagina Monologues. Why do you think Eastern Michigan University in eastern Michigan is canceling all production and performances of the Vagina Monologues?
If you’re thinking it’s morality based, you would be so dead wrong that it would be embarrassing. If you’re thinking it’s because old and everybody’s seen it and it’s not news, you would be dead wrong. No. The reason why Eastern Michigan University has canceled the Vagina Monologues — all production and performances — is because not all women have vaginas anymore. Do not doubt me. I’m not making this up.
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RUSH: Look, folks, we’re gonna get to all of it today. We’re gonna get to the caravan. We’re gonna get to Ivanka and her emails and the caravan and the judge’s order and all of this. It’s just that, frankly, I’m getting fed up with following the daily narrative of the media, reacting to everything the media does and breathlessly reacting to it or discussing it, because, frankly there’s much more going on out there than just what the media is reporting, and I alluded to this a bit yesterday.
We’ve got this 24-hour news cycle that has developed now a soap opera formula for the presentation of what everybody calls news every day. But it isn’t. I mean, how long would it really take to tell everybody what happened in any given time frame? What happened the last 24 hours? How long would it take to just report that? You could probably do it in under a half hour. When we were all growing up, the nightly newscasts were a half hour, meaning 18 minutes. I’m not trying to say that they reported everything.
They, of course, didn’t. What they left out was as important as what they decided to cover. But the point is most of what you see under the banner of news isn’t news. It’s a formulaic discussion, analysis, manipulation, mind control kind of thing. “Mind control,” let me take that back. That’s what happens. I don’t think it’s one of the purposes. It’s just the manipulation of the viewer to keep in tune… Nothing ever gets solved. Instead, after each segment, “That’s good TV.” “That didn’t work on TV. Let’s not get that person back. Maybe we don’t need to do that segment.”
The basis is not, “What we can teach people, how can we inform people, how can people end up learning things today?” It’s a whole different criteria. I just I don’t want to be a prisoner to it any longer because there’s all kinds of stuff out there, like this story from Eastern Michigan University. I know you mean think I’m making this up, but I am not. “Leaders at [Eastern Michigan University] decided to cancel its production of The Vagina Monologues because it’s discriminatory,” because now “‘not all women have vaginas.’
“The women’s resource center at Eastern Michigan University put the kibosh on the [Vagina Monologues] since it caters only to women who have the physical anatomy that accompanies the female sex, according to The Ann Arbor News. The decision came after the resource center conducted a survey, asking respondents about The Vagina Monologues. Those opposed to the drama said they were concerned about the fact that the production excludes some women, namely those who don’t have vaginas.”
What in the name of Sam Hill is happening to this culture? Do not these women without vaginas…? Don’t they secretly want one? Isn’t that the point? So why is the Vagina Monologues discriminatory because not all women have vaginas, because even those who don’t, want one or pretend that they have one or think that one’s in there somewhere if it could just be found by a doctor. (interruption) Yeah, that’s true! Even some of them there have gotten rid of one, with the addadictomy procedure that was popularized out in San Francisco.
I mean… (laughing) I can’t think of an analogy here. This is so stupid!
I guess some women have penises so it’s OK to be phallocentric now, right?
And all males don’t have the need for free tampons placed their university restrooms.
What in the name of Sam Hill is happening to this culture?
I find myself asking this more and more.
The lunatics are running the asylum
They probably got bumped because they realized how effective this was in the 2016 campaign:
Because Rush (interruption)
Well played sir!
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” -- Theodore Dalrymple [Wiki attributes this to Anthony Daniels, TD is his nom de plume]
See tagline.
(Sigh...)
Deconstruct Deconstructionism!
It’s the only thing left!
When it becomes the entire theme of a work of 'literature' or 'theater', it becomes nothing more than boring, repetitive crudeness for the lowest common denominator.
It's as bad as the old Andy Dick "Anus and Andy" skits on Conan O'Brien, only stretched out for an entire 1-2 hour show.
I'll choose anything by Monty Python over this kind of crap anytime.
:^)
Sick society these days. Very sick.
What else can we cancel? Death of a Salesman, discriminatory to saleswomen. Streetcar named Desire, abuse of women and poor description of mental health issues. The Glass Menagerie? The Gentleman Caller did not ask permission to kiss the shy Laura.
My alma mater. Their alumni fund doesn’t get a dime from me, and this is reason #637.
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There you go again, off on a tangent...and inverted.
Judging all of human history by today’s moral standards is a never-winning proposition. Art is in part a study of the human condition, which is often universal, but expressed situationally across various times and space. Kids today are seemingly taught nothing of art or history or awareness of the human condition, only value judgments based on contemporary socio-political thought - which will of course change over time as values change - making their views more akin to infantile impulsive outbursts rather than reflective thought.
btw, I am sure Jacques Derrida would be rolling in his graves over this kind of crap. His famous quote is roughly translated as “there is nothing outside of the text”, meaning that art (particularly written art, books & plays) has to be viewed through its own context - yet somehow deconstructionism has become a political philosophy that says “the text is wrong”, which ultimately leads you to a rejection of all ideas outside that of the viewer’s own understanding. Rather than appreciate the perspective of the writing, you reject it for what you perceive to be its “flaws” by the viewer’s subjective standards. That is how you end up with stupid ideas like “banning” books and plays. There is no way Derrida would have been a proponent of banning the written word.
So the symbol for woman is skirt? and man non-skirt? That’s a stereotype! Not all women wear skirts!
And one more thing, how is a traditional bathroom non inclusive? Does it keep some people out? Of course not. The only reason for the current horse$hit about bathrooms is so that insane people with a delusion of being another sex can validate their delusions.
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