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Before making judgements about something, maybe you should see it yourself!I guess I’m hyper-sensitive to the V-Logs, being on a Catholic college campus (the target of the V-Day movement) and all, but I was surprised to see that so many people didn’t know what they’re all about!
I have read enough descriptions and excerpts from the play to recognize that they are thoroughly at odd with Catholic teaching on sexuality, though I must confess that I have not seen them performed.
NO, they are most certainly NOT acceptable for any Catholic. The objectification of women is apparent from the title; no aspect of the beautiful theology of the body is accurately represented by the play. Its only worthy ‘goal’ is combating violence against women, but by its very nature it does not accomplish that well at all.
**Before recommending that others see it, you should probably see it yourself. **
Or…I suggest you actually read excerpts from the play. The title, as brash as it is, is only a small indication of the intensity of the play. If you follow this link, it will take you to a website of a group combating the showing of the V-Logs at the University of Notre Dame. It contains excerpts from the play to show its harm to people such as yourself, who are convinced that the V-Logs pose no real danger. WARNING: EXTREMELY EXPLICIT.
I don’t have a problem with the word vagina. In fact, I don’t have a problem with appropriately expressed sexuality at all. I DO have a problem with reducing my personhood as a woman to my genitalia. I am much more than that, and to proclaim that I am only my genitalia, or to find empowerment in my vagina, is not only ridiculous, it is intensely counterproductive and against the Christian ideal of love–especially sexual love–as self-gift. Power has no place in sexuality.
The supporters of the V-Logs at ND last year wore shirts that said “Jesus loves vaginas.” How more crude and objectifying can we possibly get?
And there is the danger in any Catholic of any stripe supporting such a crude play. “Well if that good Catholic says it’s fine, then everything it proposes *must *be.” This is obviously not the case when one reads even a few pages of the V-Logs.
I’m skeptical as to whether the ‘anonymous’ nun on bustedhalo.com was actually a nun. Incredibly skeptical. Don’t trust everything you read online.
To sum up the V-Logs, from the end of that article I linked…The play’s main goal is **not **combating violence against women in the least:
Everyone’s a critic. that’s why I don’t trust critics. I make choices on my own.
) went to see the play with her equally morally-relativist, pro-choice, anti-religious authority friend, and they both loved it. This, in and of itself, was a strong enough recommendation for me not to see it.
were in there…it seemed to me like it was meant to be an “uplifting” and “empowering” experience for women to be able to talk about “their vaginas”, but even in my most liberal days, I always thought it was a bit childish and crude.
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