Yes, but as someone who was abused, I really hate the implication that I will potentially become an abuser or that this is an excuse for the abusers behavior. For those of us being abused, bringing this up again and again makes us feel that something insidious is inside us and that we can't trust ourselves because we…

In Australia we had the Stolen Generation. From the late 1800's through til the 1960's Aboriginal children, mostly mixed/biracial or lighter skinned, were taken from their parents and put into 'homes'. The aim of the scheme was to breed out the Aboriginal peoples, so a lot of the children taken were young girls. They…

Thank you for articulating this. There were no "good old days" or "simpler times". I argue this with my 60+ parents and Inlaws as delicately as I can. They were children at the time, so the cruel realities of the world were submerged beneath their niavete. The 50s and 60s: where you could see a flick for less than a…

In the "good old days", children were fodder.

Technically, this is a one-piece rather than a bikini. Carry on .

Experiments performed during France's Reign of Terror pretty strongly established that a human head can survive, consciously, for at least a couple of seconds after being separated from the body. At least eight seconds, sometimes as long as 30.

Honestly, I think if you're being killed by the state, the pain just isn't the relevant factor. It's a distinctly American and bizarre view that the problem with the death penalty is that we're just not doing it nicely enough.

Interesting, and no offence meant, but totally irrelevant to my point. I'm not talking about other countries here, because the other countries aren't in the article we're discussing. I'm talking about US gun culture.

Graham Norton is entertaining, but a lot of the questions he asks the women on his couch are hugely sexist.

I expect the no-critiques clause only applies in the context of a production of the play, not in a classroom. If you're going to stage a performance of the play, you have to do it by Ensler's rules.

Presumably students could get the script as an assigned textbook and discuss it all they want in class, and write papers about it, they just can't do so in a performance-of-Vagina-Monologues context. If you get permission to stage a performance, then that performance falls under the rules specified by the creator.

I know. Kid, the Bible was written down by humans. Divinely inspired but humans. And it has undergone innumerable translations and rearrangements for centuries upon centuries. What you find in it may be enduring truths, but not literal facts, scientific or otherwise.

The vast majority of women have vaginas. It's the fucking biological indicator of sex. I understand that there's a difference between gender and sex, but the Vagina Monologues are about vaginas and how awesome they are. There are unique experiences that come with being born a woman in both sex and gender (periods,…

The snake is eating its own head. It's actually kind of scary. Censorship under the disguise of not "censoring" voices. I find that colleges/universities seem to be the last places on this planet that get its own irony.

I'm afraid that I can't abide by this. It isn't transphobic for women to talk about their bodies. Not everything is about everyone all of the time.

Everything is offensive now.

I love how liberals manage to ban artistic expressions that conservatives have been fighting against for years.

Okay, I realize Mount Holyoke is a women's college, but Vagina Monologues is performed everywhere, and even men are allowed to watch it. Men without vaginas. Maybe some men with vaginas, but probably more men who will never have the experience of having a vagina. Their experience is pretty excluded from what…

Especially delivery drivers. A lot of people don't even tip delivery people because they think that the "delivery fee" is a tip even though it's not. Or people will have some stupid policy like "I always tip exactly $5 because it doesn't matter what I ordered."

Same! I'm a part-time teacher and a grad student. I don't have a lot to spare!