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The New CN

In Tim’s last post, he mentions not getting the job at the Collegiate Network, which gave me the idea of checking out the CN’s website to find out who bested our dear loveable Tim (who would have been great for the job, by the way).

While checking out their blog, which is updated even less frequently than our own, I ran across the posting “An End to Modesty”, in which new CN staffer Joseph Pylman discusses a decision at Cornell two years ago to distribute vibrators to women who wanted them, and a current controversy at Wesleyan University over the Cunt Club, an organization that celebrates the female reproductive system (you can’t celebrate it enough, really).

Although I disagree with some of the arguments Pylman uses (i.e. The End to Modesty, as if these young women are using their vibrators in public), I think he has a point about the current state of feminism on campus, which is obsessed with dirty words and openly discussing personal matters that most people could do without hearing. If the Cunt Club existed at our University, we would make merciless fun of them; I have no doubt of that.

Pylman links to an article from the FrontPage.com which discusses the controversy in greater detail, including this tidbit, proving that the UO is not alone in harboring whackos:

[S}ome people in the university community were offended by the notion that having a vagina automatically means that you are a woman. To combat that crazy notion, Wesleyan added a trans-gendered monologue to The Vagina Monologues (TVM). In the words of the plays director, TVM is supposed to be about vaginas not only women and those two are not necessarily the same thing.”

Riiiight. Vagina does not necessarily equal woman. Paging Toby Hill-Meyer …

  1. Timothy says:

    Finger painting and horribly abusing student fees.

  2. Will says:

    Actually Tyler, vagina does not necessarily mean woman. I found this out the hard way last Saturday while drinking alone at Dacha and brooding over a girl named, well, Polina. No, not that Polina. That Polina dropped out of school and is living in Sakhalin. I was finally getting over brooding over that Polina when I met another Polina. In any case, I was drunk and brooding over this Polina, when some disgusting skank came up to me and said in broken English, I am magic-woman. I know what you think. She then showed me one of her breasts and sat down on my lap. I was thinking that she probably had AIDs, but she said, You think I ugly. My mood was foul enough that she seemed like an appropriate companion. She explained that she was an alcoholic and, in order to lose weight, had not eaten in ten days. She looked awful, all hair and bones, and claimed to be writing a book. I was just starting to like her…a female Erofeev, I thought…when she shoved my hand up her skirt. There was a hole of some sort, but there were also several marble sized lumps. I recoiled in horror, threw her off my lap, and ran to the bathroom to wash my hands.
    As I was walking to the metro later that night, I saw her sitting on the curb outside the bar crying. The next day a friend who was also there that night told me that she had eventually gotten so drunk that she fell of a chair and seriously injured her head. Apparently a group of drunken muzhiks eventually picked her up off the sidewalk, threw her into their car, and drove off.
    In any case, I would maintain that Toby Hill-Meyer is more of a woman than this strange creature. I went to middle and high school with him. He was quiet and friendly, and was supposed to be very smart and extremely good at chess. I played him once and demolished himand Im not that good at chess. After he lost, he didnt say anything, just sat there with a creepy look in his eyes. One of my brutish skinhead friends made some cruel comment, and Toby got up and walked away, looking frustrated. I dont think he liked me very much.
    But I kind of liked him. Hell, if Id been scrawny and feminine I might have turned into whatever it is that he turned into. Instead I came to Russia, where I drink a lot and am dating a lovely thirty-two year old with a husband who wants to cut my head off with and axe.
    You shouldnt be so hard on Toby. Aim higher. Hes obviously fragile–a beautiful creature who wouldnt hurt a fly. Just leave him alone to do his finger-painting or whatever.

  3. Timothy says:

    I’m also WAY better looking than those folks, goddamn.

  4. WWB says:

    If accurate, I’m troubled to hear they’re turning it into a de facto Catholic organization. Imagine if National Review did the same thing; they’d lose at least half their best writers.

    By the way, I thought political correctness holds that transgendereds who have completed the transition (i.e. got themselves a vagina) are considered fully female. So why the distinction here? Sounds to me like padding the roster.

  5. Timothy says:

    The CN is dead, long live the CN.

  6. Danimal says:

    Wait, is this what Schwarzenegger is talking about when he refers to “girlie men?”

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