May 02, 2005, 8:08 a.m.
Why Can't They "Just Get Along"?
V-Day meets P-Day on campus.
By Christina Hoff Sommers
Warning:The following contains adult (in this case, collegiate) language, along with gratuitous references to male and female genitalia.
College administrators have been enthusiastic supporters Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues and schools across the nation celebrate “V-Day” (short for Vagina Day) every year. But when the College Republicans at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island rained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating Penis Day and staging a satire called The Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror. Two participating students, Monique Stuart and Andy Mainiero, have just received sharp letters of reprimand and have been placed on probation by the Office of Judicial Affairs. The costume of the P-Day “mascot” — a friendly looking “penis” named Testaclese, has been confiscated and is under lock and key in the office of the assistant dean of student affairs, John King.
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www.nationalreview.com/commen...808.asp
Why Can't They "Just Get Along"?
V-Day meets P-Day on campus.
By Christina Hoff Sommers
Warning:The following contains adult (in this case, collegiate) language, along with gratuitous references to male and female genitalia.
College administrators have been enthusiastic supporters Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues and schools across the nation celebrate “V-Day” (short for Vagina Day) every year. But when the College Republicans at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island rained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating Penis Day and staging a satire called The Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror. Two participating students, Monique Stuart and Andy Mainiero, have just received sharp letters of reprimand and have been placed on probation by the Office of Judicial Affairs. The costume of the P-Day “mascot” — a friendly looking “penis” named Testaclese, has been confiscated and is under lock and key in the office of the assistant dean of student affairs, John King.
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www.nationalreview.com/commen...808.asp
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Re: P-Day vs. V-Day
Sun, May 15, 2005 - 3:25 PMWow.
Dude, no-ones ever accused me of being conservative, but I don't think I could hang with V-Day. Oh lord.
Besides, it would be SO much more fun to walk around in a big phallus costume, but I must admit, I would be really touchy with that too unless I could have a foreskin.
That sucks and is totally unfair. I hope P-Day spreads like wildfire next year.
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Re: P-Day vs. V-Day
Tue, February 7, 2006 - 6:50 PMWith "V-Day" coming up again, I thought it appropriate to boost this up to the top of the threads again.... -
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Re: P-Day vs. V-Day
Thu, February 9, 2006 - 9:44 PMIs it possible that the negative reactions were no so much about resistence to P-Day but a reaction to the flippancy with which the perpetrators of P-Day try to diminish V-Day? -
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Re: P-Day vs. V-Day
Fri, February 10, 2006 - 2:26 PMSure, but then creating a new misandrist holiday event out of a day that's supposed to be about romantic love is pretty flippant in and of itself, don't you think? Offensive, even...at least in my book. -
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Re: P-Day vs. V-Day
Sat, February 11, 2006 - 3:37 PMI suppose you have a point there. I just don't understand why groups of men and women have to be so oppositional. It seems that it would take a lot less energy to equally celebrate both sexes.
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