Responding to Saint Louis University’s ban on the vile play The Vagina Monologues, a student club will no longer present the play even off campus, The University News reports. Una, a group described as “the feminine voice on campus” at Saint Louis University (SLU), a Jesuit Catholic institution of higher education, is reportedly creating a new production entitled The SLU Monologues.
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A student leader of Una told the campus newspaper that The SLU Monologues will present stories collected from SLU students and staff on campus “in the spirit of The Vagina Monologues.” The V-Monologues is a controversial play that, among other vulgarities, describes the lesbian seduction of a teenage victim as her “salvation” that “raised her into a kind of heaven.Saint Louis University is among Catholic institutions that once hosted productions of the play but have since decided to ban it from campus. The report also notes that The SLU Monologues has yet to be approved for campus performances. "Vagina Monologues [is a] good show for its purpose. But it's not the end-all, be-all to end violence against women," a student leader of Una said, according to The University News. Source: The University News
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This is actually incorrect. The Vagina Monologues have been performed by SLU students for the past 10 years, and this is not changing. The SLU Monologues are a new production that the feminist group is doing in ADDITION to the Vagina Monologues to raise money. They are all part of the same campaign to end violence against women.
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This is actually incorrect. The Vagina Monologues have been performed by SLU students for the past 10 years, and this is not changing. The SLU Monologues are a new production that the feminist group is doing in ADDITION to the Vagina Monologues to raise money. They are all part of the same campaign to end violence against women.
I am a cast member in the 2010 production, and I can't understand why we aren't allowed to perform on-campus. The subject matter, no matter how disturbing, is REAL, just as the sensitive subject matter in The SLU Monologues is real. All of this is done to raise money for a great cause. It just feels to me like we're telling these women that their problems and their past doesn't really exist.
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