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 …
