Eugene Volokh points to a story about an inadequately diverse performance of The Vagina Monologues but misses an opportunity:
They silently stood hand in hand with gray duct tape pasted across their lips and "Vagina Warriors" emblazoned on the back of their white shirts. The front of the shirts had different messages: "Warning: Hostile Vagina," "Not all vaginas are skinny, white + straight" and "My cunt is not represented here."About 10 people gathered in front of Agate Hall on Friday to protest what they called a lack of representation of different kinds of women in "The Vagina Monologues" production, which ran Thursday through Saturday at the Agate Hall auditorium.
In flyers handed out to audience members at the show, University graduate Nicole Sangsuree Barrett wrote that while there was "diversity" in the show, it was minimal. Women of "a variety of skin colors, body sizes, abilities and gender expressions" were not adequately represented, she said.
"I would just like to call attention to the fact that this could have been a more diverse cast, but a safe and welcoming environment was not created for people that I consider to be 'underrepresented,'" Barrett said in the statement. . . .
Professor Volokh neglected to advocate the inclusion of the largest minority group in America: men.
What's a vagina?
I am only 3 days late on this but in case you haven't read Eve Ensler is coming out with a new play-and has a new book all about her obsession with her stomach. It is actually quite an interesting take on how women spend so much time obsessing over our bodies and if we took that energy and directed it at the workplace (so maybe our glasses would be half full as you say) and being better people and better in our careers it would be time better spent. I can not tell you the countless hours we spend thinking about things like our stomachs. Just sort of a wake up call.
Wsk: You crazy women ;) Actually, I've never seen TVM, so I've no idea if it's any good at all. Have you? Are you looking forward to The Stomach Monologues?