The spectrum of acceptable thought on college campuses is narrowing to the point of invisibility. Case in point: “The Vagina Monologues,” once thought of as a cutting-edge expression of feminism, now needs a politically correct makeover. The play has been deemed insensitive by students for the unthinkable crime of believing in science, also known as “equat[ing] being a woman with having a vagina.”
Students have organized annual productions of the play since the late 1990’s, rallying enthusiastically around its feminist message. The Eve Ensler classic even sparked its own charity campaign, the V-Day movement, which coordinates productions of the “Monologues” to raise money for local groups combating violence against women. All this is to say the play has been a staple of modern feminism since the days of Lilith Fair.
