Silenced (Michigan) legislator to perform '(The Vagina) Monologues' on Capitol steps
Source: Detroit News
June 15, 2012 at 1:00 am
Silenced legislator to perform 'Monologues' on Capitol steps
By Serena Maria Daniels
The Detroit News
Just days after a state lawmaker was silenced for referring to her vagina on the state House floor, she and other female state legislators will join Tony Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler for a special performance of her famed play "The Vagina Monologues" on Monday on the Capitol steps in Lansing.
State Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Sen. Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, will perform from 6-8 p.m. with Ensler along with seven other state lawmakers and local actors.
"Censoring a woman for saying a word that is a body part that 51% of their constituents have is a repression that we have not and should not ever witness in this country," Ensler said in a news release Friday.GOP leaders banned Brown from speaking on the House floor after she referred to her vagina during a debate on new abortion restrictions.
"They banned me from speaking because I dared say vagina, the correct, medical name of a part of a woman's anatomy these lawmakers are trying to regulate," said Brown in a news release. "I'm outraged that there are Michigan legislators that not only want to dictate what women can do, but what we can say."
Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120615/METRO/206150449#ixzz1xveLyJWf
Be sure to visit the link above.
And then, there's this one:
https://www.facebook.com/events/268583796582574
Suich
(10,642 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Anyone who has seen the Monologues will realize that they say words that can't be said here at DU -- and they say 'em with GUSTO...and even insist that the audience repeat them, loudly, as well!
The news media editors will have some work to do with the B roll!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I doubt they will perform that one or "better than tax law"
MADem
(135,425 posts)I think they just might be going for the ... errr...full monty!
I think it would be grand, actually.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)of the fact that the monologues that sexualize the vagina and taking on the ownership of language that offends a significant number of people wouldn't be bold- just stupid.
Eve Ensler is a smart enough woman to know that the full scope of the Vagina Monologues would be so controversial as to defeat the purpose.
MADem
(135,425 posts)in such a bad mood. If they can't handle an Obie-Award winning play, that's their problem.
Perhaps a lesson in the form of a monologue or three would get them on the right track--or at least give them a sense of what they might be missing!
This report says they are doing a special performance of the Vagina Monologues--not excerpts, unless that's what the "special" bit means. Time will tell, I guess. There will be at least ten people participating...
Just days after a state lawmaker was silenced for referring to her vagina on the state House floor, she and other female state legislators will join Tony Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler for a special performance of her famed play "The Vagina Monologues" on Monday on the Capitol steps in Lansing.
State Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Sen. Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, will perform from 6-8 p.m. with Ensler along with seven other state lawmakers and local actors.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120616/POLITICS02/206160347#ixzz1xz1KuPY2
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)That would be the one about giving birth. The issue here is that legislators is that they have a misogynistic over sexualized view of the vagina.
I really hope the goal is to leave them dumbfounded because they understand not because they don't.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Here's the thing, though--if their CONSTITUENTS learn, then maybe they'll decide they want someone a bit smarter representing them!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)NOT because of controversies stirred up by monologues people aren't intellectually mature enough to understand.
But to call attention to the fact that those republican legislators only view the vessel of their children's births as a sexual organ.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Anyone who doesn't get the whole picture here, and why the play is being presented on the steps of the capitol, will step in it big time if they dare say a word!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)But, I think you overestimate the influence of a tony award.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They're gonna feel some "national" heat, as well they should--it's what happens when someone does something really dumb on a local or state level!
This will be BEAUTIFUL.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)to educate those silly little boys who can't bring themselves to know correct anatomical names.
You can just imagine those boys in the bathroom talking about their pee-pees and women's unmentionables.
Would love to be there - hope it is a huge success.
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)And we all know that they do...
gauguin57
(8,138 posts)(oops. I said peep.)
Bozita
(26,955 posts)Sally Wright Day
Common Language Bookstore in Ann Arbor is selling T-shirts with "I ? Michigan Vaginas" imprinted on them.
34 minutes ago
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Bozita
(26,955 posts)June 16, 2012
By Bill Laitner
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
When state House Republicans -- a largely male group -- indefinitely banned two Democratic women in the House from speaking in the chamber, it set the stage for an unlikely theatrical performance on the Capitol steps in Lansing.
At least nine female legislators will join actresses from around Michigan on Monday evening to read the 1996 play "The Vagina Monologues." Considered a manifesto of feminist rights by fans, it's the perfect way to vent outrage against muzzling women and otherwise trying to oppress them, said protest organizer Carla Milarch, 42, who is associate artistic director of the Performance Network Theatre in Ann Arbor.
The playwright Eve Ensler is flying in for the event from California, "and we have more and more actresses calling to fill out the cast," Milarch said Friday night. Staging the play seemed like the perfect response to conservative men silencing women for speaking in direct terms about body parts -- specifically for saying the word vagina, she said.
more...
http://www.freep.com/article/20120616/NEWS06/206160471/-Vagina-Monologues-coming-Capitol-protest-muzzle-legislators
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)I hope they shake some folks up. Too bad if same folks don't like it...tough shit for them...
truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)Dudes, you're both totally outnumbered and totally fucked.
longship
(40,416 posts)The Vagina Monologues! On the state Capital Steps. I wish my car wasn't all busted up right now. I'd drive there tomorrow.
I hope somebody films it.
R&
Spitfire of ATJ
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Perfect for people who don't want to hear it.
Let's mail a few to the Michigan GOP.
Missy456
(6 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)What a great response.
bupkus
(1,981 posts)These assclowns have apparently forgotten where they came from or are so uncomfortable with reality of their origin that they're lives are dedicated to the impossible task of figuratively escaping it a second time.
goclark
(30,404 posts)understand.
I am sick and tired of these "NoBalls" having the nerve to keep making laws and " new rules" that tell Vaginas2012 with REAL BALLS what to do!
Why do they keep doing it? The polls aren't saying it is working so it must be that they are afraid that they can't control Virginas12.
Bingo!
They can not control us because we have BALLS!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)maybe?
obamanut2012
(26,041 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)I can see it now..."vag-ins" everwhere!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)K&R
Uncle Joe
(58,271 posts)Thanks for the thread, Bozita.
livvy
(6,948 posts)I posted info about the rally in the Michigan forum and another poster, "enough", had this suggestion. I think it's a wonderful idea! Let's flood the email and voice mail boxes of these two.
For those that can't make it, may I suggest an e-mail or phone message sent on the same day would be a good way to support this. The message only has to have one word!
MI HOUSE SPEAKER James Bolger
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (517) 373-1787
Toll Free: 877-BOLGER-1
MAJORITY FLOOR LEADER JIM STAMAS
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (517) 373-1791
Toll Free: (800) 626-8887
MADem
(135,425 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)"pussy-whipped".
Way to go!
Carolina
(6,960 posts)LOL!
A_Michiganian
(1 post)Show them some love. [link:
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