[AnnaZ]

Izzy Lyman ping.

[Viking2002]

Ah, yes, now the NEA rabble wants to show your 14-year-old daughter that her beaver has feelings, too.

Someone ping me when the next civil war's about to start.

[Prime Choice]

As part of a global campaign, students and staff at the school will stage the work of contentious playwright Eve Ensler

Contentious? More like pretentious.

[Enterprise]

"We hope that there are ways for our students to find their voice in their years with us."

Well, I wonder if a teenaged boy asked a girl in the school if it's true that girls have talking vaginas if he would be booted for sexual harassment. Nah.

[firebrand]

Every time I hear anything about Amherst, it is bad (the UN flag flying over the Commons, the anti-Patriot-Act Resolution, the diversity council at the college). The only good thing about the town is Ted Herzberg, and he'll be graduating in June.

[SuziQ]

All right, Izzy ( who is a lovely and lively lady)!! Great article!

[jocon307]

My firm, last year, bought tickets to a production of this play, which was being done as a fund-raiser for a home for unwed mothers. When one of the partners asked me if I would like to go I told him I didn't think we could spare enough time for me to tell him how very many, many problems I had with the whole thing.

I was offended, I should have sued.

[Little Bill]

Mass Ping

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

-Sigh. Amherst is sooooo predictable.

[ppaul]

Long time observers of one of the country's wackiest liberal communities wonder if the mission of public education in the People's Republic of Amherst isn't to sexualize vulnerable youngsters.

Of course it is.
Like "gateway" drugs are the doorway to the hard stuff, so the public schools are the gateway to full-blown perversion. Mission: Tear down the "constricting" influence of parents and outmoded, closed-minded thinking and replace it with libertinism and questioning of authority. Confuse children regarding natural sexuality and gender roles. Encourage "experimentation" in unnatural sex practices. Violate their precious innocence.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda ping list - don't have time to read these articles until tonight...
Let me know if you etc etc.....

jeremiah the small

[Stultis]

Ithica Amherst is the city of evil.

Seriously, this sexualization of minors is sick, sick, sick. Just because MTV and Ambercrombie & Fitch do it doesn't make it fair ground for the public schools.

[L.N. Smithee]

Ensler's play has been featured -- sometimes with famous actresses -- all over the United States and at hundreds of college campuses. Last year an audience at Amherst College was treated to this feminist bacchanal, and one brave soul publicly complained. Writing in the student newspaper, Andrew Moin was stunned by a scene which "consisted of descriptions" of a teen-aged girl having sex with an older woman.

After this particular "monologue" -- called "The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could" -- finally stirred up controversy on college campuses (resulting in the firing of the token conservative columnist in a Georgetown University newspaper), Ensler made a minor change to the script. The woman character referring to (in retrospect) her alcohol-aided seduction at age 13 as "my surprising, unexpected and politically-incorrect salvation" was originally described by said character as "a good rape."

Here's a link to the slightly revised script. Barf Alert to the max.

[L.N. Smithee]

Don't forget: Eve Ensler was one of the consultants to Hillary!'s campaign for Senate, and Hillary wrote the foreword to a book of her most recent play. And while Eve Ensler didn't donate to the Clinton campaign, her mother -- Arvella Ensler of Longboat Key, FL (who, I remember discovering years ago, goes by the name "Chris") -- gave $1,000.

Eve was very active spreading her dough around in 2003, donating $10,250 to feminist candidates Barbara Boxer, Patty "Osama Mama" Murray, Barbara Mikulski, Blanche Lincoln, and Jan Schakowsky.

[Coleus]

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