When the lady priests in the Diocese of Niagara performed the Vagina Monologues in the diocesan cathedral for the edification – or titillation – of prurient Anglicans, they probably didn’t anticipate that their impetuous attempt to be trendy would, within a couple of years, be condemned as “inherently reductionist and exclusive”. The problem is, it seems, today, not everyone who claims – or self identifies, to use the current in vogue jargon – to be a woman has a vagina. I can’t think why this did not occur to the lady priests.
Such are the perils of the never ending quest for ecclesiastical relevance.
From here:
“Gender is a wide and varied experience, one that cannot one that cannot simply be reduced to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who have participated in the show have grown increasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive.”
Ensler’s play, which debuted in 1996 and has added new scenes ever since, features in-your-face monologues about sexual discovery, homosexuality, rape and even pedophilia. But even now, most of these fiercely feminist monologues have yet to give a voice to the vagina-less.
Reading this reminded me of reading Kipling’s Jungle Book. Do they suffer from the dewanee (the madness) or were they all bitten by Tabaqui, the Jackal? Perhaps one of these is the kindest explanation.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy …
All this nonsense started with lies about “women’s rights”; advanced purely to get power. How ironic that it now removes womens’ most basic wish, not to share a toilet with a man.
Those who lived by the sword die by it. It was never, in the end, for their benefit at all.
If these ladies were genuine priests they would be occupied in proclaiming the true Gospel but being in the Diocese of Niagara they couild be defrocked by their apostate so-called bishop.
Ladies can’t be genuine priests, so what else would you expect? Besides, the real winners in sexual liberation are men who can sleep around and cohabit/”play house” without having to commit. Roger is right.