Valentine's Day in Corvallis
While men all over town start lining up in the Safeway express lane to buy last-minute bargain roses or boxes of candy, while women dig lingerie out of drawers, and while kids hand out perforated squares with pictures of Hello Kitty and Speed Racer, two groups on campus will instead be arguing over how to best observe the holiday.
One group of "Vagina Warriors" will be celebrating V-Day, a "global movement to stop violence against women and girls." They will be performing Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues tonight at LaSells Stewart Center and donating "most" of the proceeds to CARDV, the Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence.
The other group will be basically criticizing the first group for being a bunch of vulgar man-haters. Sponsored by the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute, the V-Day Unveiled campaign seeks to provide alternatives to the V-Day activities. Why? "Because men aren't monsters and real women look up."
Meanwhile, some people, apparently blinded by the fabricated Hallmark goodness that has been associated with Valentine's Day for decades, are ignoring the fuss on campus and sending singing barbershop quartet telegrams to their loved ones. Don't they know about the culture war across town? Don't they understand that Valentine's Day is about anger?
One group of "Vagina Warriors" will be celebrating V-Day, a "global movement to stop violence against women and girls." They will be performing Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues tonight at LaSells Stewart Center and donating "most" of the proceeds to CARDV, the Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence.
The other group will be basically criticizing the first group for being a bunch of vulgar man-haters. Sponsored by the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute, the V-Day Unveiled campaign seeks to provide alternatives to the V-Day activities. Why? "Because men aren't monsters and real women look up."
Meanwhile, some people, apparently blinded by the fabricated Hallmark goodness that has been associated with Valentine's Day for decades, are ignoring the fuss on campus and sending singing barbershop quartet telegrams to their loved ones. Don't they know about the culture war across town? Don't they understand that Valentine's Day is about anger?
posted by Corvallist at
6:54 AM
1 Comments:
Hmmmmm. Wow. I didn't know Valentine's Day was about anger. It's just another day here in Catland. The V-dayer's and the V-day Unveileder's, I don't know. Do I have to choose sides? Men aren't monsters. Not all of them. That's my opinion, although I certainly unfortunately had the bad luck to get born to a man who couldn't keep his hands off his daughter, who berated his wife, and his two sons, my brothers, support him and call my mother and me nuts. My mother's dead now. I wish to God she'd married somebody who respected women. I wish that for her and for me.
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