So I just watched, for the first time, Mount Holyoke College’s production of The Vagina Monologues last night. (Find script here) I was expecting to feel encouraged and heartened by the play. But throughout the whole damn thing, I wanted to get up and leave. It was just awful. I hate this play. I’m feeling [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Speciesism’
Vagina Horriblogues
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged eve ensler, feminism, identity, imperialism, motherhood, patriarchy, pornography, power, racism, rape, sexism, sexualization, Speciesism, V Day, Vagina Monologues, violence on February 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »
On Egalitarianism and Dismantaling the Gender Binary and frustration of every day life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged egalitarianism, Evan Greer, Hierarchy, Judith Butler, Matriarchy, Speciesism, Veganism on December 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I think part of the reason I meet so many people who hesitate to call themselves a feminist is because they have some idea of a hairy-arm-pitted matriarch who some how demands abortions and burns her bras (but as Ben points out, that’s probably not so bad). But for me at least, that’s not what [...]