Three public high school students have been suspended for saying the word ‘vagina’ during a reading of Eve Ensler’s award winning “The Vagina Monologues“, a play that presents various women’s thoughts on sexual subjects.

The excerpt was read during a literary event at John Jay High School in Cross River, a New York City suburb. Other readings included a student’s original work and the football coach quoting Shakespeare. He was safe though, because men used to play the parts of women in Shakespeare’s plays and they had penises.

Readings from the play are commonly performed by college students, but apparently the school administrators felt the subject matter was inappropriate for high school students and the girls had been told that they would not be allowed to use the word ‘vagina’. According to the principal, the girls had agreed, so technically the girls weren’t suspended for saying ‘vagina’, but for disobeying orders.

The girls defied the rules and took turns reading from the script, but when they got to the word ‘vagina’, they said it together. What is this world coming to? We’ve got 12 year olds having sex in school bathrooms, children bringing guns to school and shooting their teachers, and now we’ve got three girls defiantly saying the word ‘vagina’ out loud.

“My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women’s army. I declare these streets, any streets, my vagina’s country.”

Ultimately, this all comes down to censorship of a literary work by a high school, where literature should be highly appreciated. Sure, the girls broke the rules when they said the ‘V’ word even after they had been instructed not to do so, but ask yourself why in the hell the school felt the need to censor the work in the first place. Do they actually consider the word ‘vagina’ offensive?

Suppose a girl at that school is experiencing vaginal itching from the crabs she got having sex with a boy in the bathroom, so she goes to the school nurse for advice. How should she phrase the question? “Healer, I am experiencing some discomfort in thine nether regions, what would’st thou suggesteth?”, or “My goddamn cunt is itching like a mother fucker, ya got anything for it?”, or “Nurse, my vagina itches, can you please tell me what I should do about it?”

I applaud the girls’ courage, but I’d like to know what word the school administrators feel girls should use when referring to their vagina, or are they just supposed to point ‘down there’?

Source: Fox News

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