ok. So they were allowed to read something from The Vagina Monologues but NOT ALLOWED TO SAY 'VAGINA'???? What are they supposed to say? "Hi, we're reading from the, uh, the *bleep* monologues." THE STUPIDITY OF THIS HURTS MY BRAIN.
I just can't even understand why, if there were going to be small children there, the administration would OK anything from The Vagina Monologues anyway. Why just censor one word in the whole piece instead of saying no to the whole thing? Because heaven knows that American children should know NOTHING about how their internal organs work! Or even what they're called!
I just read a statistic today that the average teenager does not visit a doctor or clinic for any kind of family planning services (including birth control and STD testing!) until 14 months after he or she becomes sexually active. Maybe if we taught kids something about their bodies besides SHAME, we'd have much healthier kids having a lot fewer accidental babies. gah! (Reproductive health education, and by that I mean the rampant complete lack thereof, is an issue that bothers me a lot. Can you tell? ha.)
And it's like the time they played "Fuck You, Aurora" by Alkaline Trio on WMTU when these two guys were doing an Alkaline Trio hour. They said, "That was '*cough* you, Aurora'." And the radio edit of the song gave me a headache from all the scratchy skippy we-deleted-0.6-seconds-of-song-and-replaced-it-with-some-other-random-part-of-the-song parts every time they say words you can't play on the radio. Which. That's a LOT of times for that song. Just say it right the first time and maybe offend a few people, but spare the total headache.
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Date: 2007-03-07 12:17 am (UTC)I just can't even understand why, if there were going to be small children there, the administration would OK anything from The Vagina Monologues anyway. Why just censor one word in the whole piece instead of saying no to the whole thing? Because heaven knows that American children should know NOTHING about how their internal organs work! Or even what they're called!
I just read a statistic today that the average teenager does not visit a doctor or clinic for any kind of family planning services (including birth control and STD testing!) until 14 months after he or she becomes sexually active. Maybe if we taught kids something about their bodies besides SHAME, we'd have much healthier kids having a lot fewer accidental babies. gah!
(Reproductive health education, and by that I mean the rampant complete lack thereof, is an issue that bothers me a lot. Can you tell? ha.)
And it's like the time they played "Fuck You, Aurora" by Alkaline Trio on WMTU when these two guys were doing an Alkaline Trio hour. They said, "That was '*cough* you, Aurora'." And the radio edit of the song gave me a headache from all the scratchy skippy we-deleted-0.6-seconds-of-song-and-replaced-it-with-some-other-random-part-of-the-song parts every time they say words you can't play on the radio. Which. That's a LOT of times for that song.
Just say it right the first time and maybe offend a few people, but spare the total headache.