RATHER THAN SPEND 24 HOURS celebrating love and romance tomorrow, some politically correct feminists would prefer we spend Valentine’s Day pondering rape, incest, and domestic violence. Inaugurated in 1998, “V-Day”–the term a coalition of feminist groups use to describe their new version of Valentine’s Day–is, according to its organizers, “a palpable energy, a fierce catalyst, . . . a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.”
This year V-Day has been promoted as a celebration of the “vagina warriors,” with over 2,000 V-Day events scheduled, mostly at colleges. The main attraction of all these events is Eve Ensler’s one woman play “The Vagina Monologues.” The verbally (and often visually) explicit play consists of 15 vignettes in which women portray their vaginas, and talk about such experiences as rape, genital mutilation, the view that men are innately violent, and lesbian statutory rape.
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