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scarlip:

lucypaw:

widdershinsgirl:

autumn-and-eve:

When a screenplay is named “The Vagina Monologues”, please don’t expect me to piss myself over how inclusive you are because you added one, optional narrative about a trans woman.
I have never been more sincere in my life when I say, I do not give a fuck, I hate the shit out of The Vagina Monologues.
no1curr about your transmisogynistic shit and vulva worship

If I was in a position to write a trans monologue, it’d be about how trans bodies come in all sorts of shapes. It’d be about how living in the trans community means learning the beauty of being among men who have vaginas and among women who don’t. It’d be about how womanhood isn’t, after all, just about the vagina. It’d be about how we are fucking awesome, fierce and strong and y’all who don’t get it can just piddle off now like the warm piss you are. It’d be about how we put up with outrageous BS just so we can live. And it would be about taking other feminists to task for being in the forefront of the outrageous BS we have to put up with.

Of course it’d never be accepted. 

No, it’d never be accepted but I wish it could be performed.

I think the vagina monologues needs to figure itself out.

Either it’s about women- and needs to include ALL women of ALL bodies. It needs to include trans women who “don’t pass”, women who love their penises and those who aren’t sure how to feel, women who tenderly care for their beard, all sorts. And this, quite frankly, is what the Vagina Monologues SHOULD be because we’ve got way too many things that pretend to be “women only” then shun trans women for cafab trans folk.

But if it is about vaginas, then first we need better portrayals of trans women- I’m sick of trans people being reduced to hate crimes and bigotry. It needs to include trans men, including those who ‘pass’ completely, talking about their love of their male vagina and genderqueer, genderfuck, genderless, genderful non-binary people of all presentations being presented as unquestionably their gender.

Either way, everything equating “woman” with “vagina” needs to be fixed or scrapped entirely.

That’s such a good point [well, all the commentary is great, but particularly the one directly above]. They really do need to decide if it’s about bodies (specifically vulvas/vaginas) and all the people with said body part, or if it’s about women regardless of body parts. Is it about women being empowered or people’s relationships with their bodies no matter their gender identity? Having it both ways is just too problematic.

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21

2012

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  7. genderbitch reblogged this from iuwaehfoaiuwhefoiaulfjqn and added:
    I really am fucking unimpressed as shit by the Vagina Monologues. No interest in going on stage in it cuz yet again...
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    play, or done any research on...this is very intersting commentary ans I may
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  17. tal9000 reblogged this from iuwaehfoaiuwhefoiaulfjqn and added:
    Yep. It’s really cissexist to make your feminism about vaginas. Both against trans women who don’t or don’t yet have...
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  19. ahousingjourney reblogged this from lucypaw and added:
    I think there’s a lot of good to be said about the Vagina Monologues, but this is definitely a very legitimate critique.
  20. purplegoesbothways reblogged this from transstingray
  21. transstingray reblogged this from angrybanette and added:
    And now I feel like I haven’t put nearly as much thought into understanding the monologues. Oh god. This is depressing.
  22. angrybanette reblogged this from instructionsfordancing and added:
    wikipedia article. Frankly I think it’s irresponsible to create characters that talk about enjoying rape if you’re not...
  23. instructionsfordancing reblogged this from angrybanette and added:
    Agreed, and transmisogyny is by no means the only awful thing about the piece. Whether or not a rape victim views her...
  24. widdershinsgirl reblogged this from lucypaw and added:
    When I did “They beat the girl…” last year, I put all the disgust in my body and soul into the line “Got permission… to...
  25. lucypaw reblogged this from widdershinsgirl and added:
    No, it’d never be accepted but I wish it could be performed.
  26. roguishrose reblogged this from autumn-and-eve and added:
    The trans monologue...sort of shit too. It depicts this one super-sterotypical
  27. gilly-laughs reblogged this from autumn-and-eve and added:
    Monologues is problematic and the transgender monologue being...is kind of shitty but by...

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