If only I had a vagina…
…I could participate in the vagina monologues. I’ve long heard about The Vagina Monologues, but had never seen them. So, when I heard they were being presented at the University of Tampa, I went (a week ago yesterday). Kudos to University of Tampa’s Student Productions for putting them on. It was a good performance. There was a good mix of humor and seriousness, all with the aim of raising awareness of issues women face as well as raising the self-confidence of women. All the proceeds went to charitable groups supporting women.
Debi went with me and on the way out I asked her why she never went to The Vagina Monologues at the University of Utah, where we both went to school. She didn’t have a good answer, but my follow-up question made us both laugh: Do you think they’d ever perform The Vagina Monologues at Brigham Young University? Amazingly, a search for the word “vagina” does return a few results on BYU’s website, but there is no mention of The Vagina Monologues. It appears discussion of the vagina at BYU hasn’t quite moved past worrying about whether or not it is sexual to insert a tampon into it - and the guilt that accompanies such an act for some Mormon women. If someone can point me to evidence indicating they have been performed at BYU, I’d love to know (and I’d stop laughing at the mental picture of a bunch of Mormon General Authorities sitting through a performance squirming in their seats).
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