Letters to the Editor
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Research for Obama Boys?
Shouldn't you be on the phone to your girlfriends, doing research for your next breathless yet damning Obama boys exclusive? Beyond Obama-dome. A giant Obamatoris.
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When do us men get a Penis Dome Event?
Sorry, I like Vaginas as much as the next man, but I'm beginning to wonder if I wasted my money subscribing to a man-hating, Hillary loving lesbo site...
I miss the old Salon. Now there is zero male influence.
Female editor. Female Movie Reviewer. Female TV reviewer. Special section ("Broadsheet") for exclusively female content.
I guess you're only going for the gay male subscribers. Don't get me wrong, I have no hatred or homophobia towards gays and lesbians (I watch "Ellen" occasionally), but it's not my subject of choice to pay money to read about.
I'm an intellectual man who is not into most sports but I like MMA ("Brutal cage figting" to you girls), Science, History, Philosophy, Atheism, Left-wing politics (Far left of Hillary and Obama), and TV that doesn't involve singing or dancing contests, or selecting the next "Supermodel", or the next Trump Butt boy (or girl). (HBO's "John Adams" for instance.)
Also I think that the inevitibility of Peak Oil and the collapse of our entirely oil based civilisation needs to be more widely publicized and explained to the mass of clueless morons. It is hardly "solved" as a recent Salon article would have it.
Umcle Al
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penis penis penis penis penis penis penis penis penis penis
a penis for every vagina!!
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I'm sure the city of New Orleans appreciates the tourist dollars
But please pack up your vaginas and be on your way as quickly as possible.
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AAAAAARGH
Eve, dear, you've made me so goddam sick of PUSSY! I mean, get some freakin' perspective fer crissakes!!!
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shouldn't have read some comments
A trip to vagina-land isn't something I'd ordinarily sign up for, but these comments are just vile. Isn't there a single person with something positive to say?
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Celebrating Vaginas
Even without the celebrities, it sounds like a grand experience. I am so glad that I took my stepdaughter to a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" a few years ago, before her untimely death. She was a young, divorced mother when we saw the show. I don't know if either of us had ever before uttered the word "vagina" to the other until then.
We loved the show, especially in the company of so many other women.
Yes, power to the penis, too. But for once, women are celebrating the most intimate part of their bodies. And if you guys aren't interested, then don't read -- or write -- any more here.
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As a guy, I think the whole thing's pretty cool
Even though Eve and some of her fans were clearly stoned or something...seriously, New Orleans, the Vagina of America?!?
Anyway, does anyone remember that scene in "The Big Lebowski" where Maude, the Feminist Avant-garde artist (and most morally motivated character in the film) talks about men's discomfort with the word vagina? The whole scene has to be one of the most hillarious dialogues in movie history. :D
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A setback for women
Reading about this lunacy wrapped in empowerment rhetoric, I really believe this sort of stuff actually sets women back. It teaches them that silly antics, withdrawl into ersatz sisterhood, and lame attempts to be outrageous and subversive will effectively counter the real and, in their cases, mostly imagined male domination all around them.
The reality of course is that they are handicapping their ability to function in the real world, have relationships with the other 49% of the human race, raise healthy sons and daughters, and compete in the marketplace.
One of the most important ingredients in healthy, mutually beneficial relationships between the sexes is respect. This baloney doesn't promote that -- men (and, I bet, most women!) laugh at this stuff and mock it, and rightfully so.
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Scary.
I don't know... A first serious encounter with a vagina can be scary. So complicated and all. Now it's even more complicated with all this marketing and strategic celebratory stuff. Still scary.
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No men allowed
Penis bad. Only vaginas allowed. No men. Men bad. Men evil. Go away, bad men. Men smelly and bad. Only vaginas. No penis.
Yes, we get the drift. I'll just go cut it off now, since you seem to be celebrating "no boyz aloud" day. "It says vagina, not penis." Yes. Ok. We get it.
Yeah, I get the irony. Yes. I know how obnoxious men are to women. Just once, I want a small admission that maybe it goes both ways and maybe we should stop THAT. Together.
Instead of divided, like everything else has to be now. But of course, cooperation doesn't sell tickets does it?
Sheesh.
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I celebrated my kidney!
All hail the Kidney!
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poor guys
all the frightened men on this thread so far are hilarious. I'm a straight married man & a feminist and I'm a bit less intimidated than you guys by the scary women talking about their scary vaginas. Especially to the guy who thinks Salon is "too female" now: seriously, dude, you'll live. You have every other male-dominated press outlet in the whole freaking world to counterbalance it.
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These posts prove the event's relevance
A quick survey of the pettiness and insecurity that surfaces when some women gather to affirm themselves, and it's easy to see the "Vagina Monologues" are as necessary as ever.
One post dismissed, without elaborating, the metaphor of New Orleans' being America's vagina. As a New Orleanian, I thought it was great, and here's why. Much of New Orleans' culture is a rejection of the dominant cultural force today, global capitalism. People come to New Orleans and love it, because they know they're in a place where the purpose of life is much more than being a cog on a wheel in a money-making machine. Community, art, joy--that's what's important in New Orleans. When I read Ensler comment, I connected the city's nurturing nature to the feminine.
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A virulent, nasty work
Our local college has done the monologs 2 years in a row now. Anyone who thinks they're mainly a celebration of women and their parts should listen to them more closely. They are funny and clever, yes, but they are also profoundly anti-male and anti-heterosexual. The redoubtable "Bob" is a token -- the only decent male we meet. The rest are insensitive at best, usually abusive, and often violent. And Bob's wistful ladyfriend, "outted" as a gratified straight woman, is another token. The Monologs are virulent and nasty, and if they portrayed any other minority the way they portray men they would rarely be tolerated.