Parental Advisory

[venta]

Does anyone know anything about The Vagina Monologues ?

I'd been told, by people who I'd regard as reliable, that they were extremely funny. Last night, I accidentally found a performance on the telly. The 2 minutes I watched seemed to consist entirely of a woman explaining how she'd "reclaimed" the word cunt, and then repeatedly saying it in different silly voices.

Which the audience seemed to find hilarious. Which I found incomprehensible. It's not like I found it offensive, it just... wasn't funny.

[One Notional Kudos Point to anyone who realises why I suddenly remembered about this :) ]

Comments

Re: I actually know someone who's been in the Vagina Monologues...

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I was always amused by the report on Channel 4 News about the reports of which words were believed to cause most offence. Can't remember the order, but the top three were cunt, fuck and motherfucker. The report had a remarkably fine balancing act to straddle neutrally-reported science, coyness and self-parody. (I'm pretty sure I've seen the ordered list somewhere on The Register.)

I think I can remember the report having been produced in both 1998 and 2000, so hopefully there was one last year as well. Smutty thrills for when you're in the mood!

Re: I actually know someone who's been in the Vagina Monologues...

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Easy to find, really - just Google for register cunt fuck motherfucker and it's there as result #7 below only a couple of porn site links and George Carlin's "seven dirty words" routine.

Will look into this and try to see whether there have been any changes between 2000 and 2002. Academic interest, natch. Sort of.