{"id":2427,"date":"2007-02-10T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2007-02-10T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T19:42:00","slug":"2427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but if anything, I’m maybe more offended by the idea that the word “hoohaa” is an acceptable substitute for “vagina”<\/a> — or that “vagina” is itself somehow a dirty word:<\/p>\n

“We got a complaint about this play The Vagina Monologues,” said Bryce Pfanenstiel, of the Atlantic Theater.<\/p>\n

The Hoohah Monologues is a replacement title for The Vagina Monologues — a well-known play about that part of the female body.<\/p>\n

“We decided we would just use child slang for it. That’s how we decided on Hoohah Monologues,” Pfanenstiel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, one complaint. That seems pretty ridiculous to me — and, like Neil Gaiman says<\/a> “seems to miss the point on a scale that’s positively awesome.” <\/p>\n

Do we need to start resorting to childish slang and code words every<\/i> time someone might overreact and be easily offended by something they walk past? Does Arthur Miller’s Death of a Saleman<\/i>, for instance, need be renamed The Salesman Ran Away While You Were At School (But He’s Living on a Really Nice Farm Now, Honest, So Don’ You Worry<\/i>)? Do we excise from public discourse every word or phrase that might conjure up naughty images or lead to awkward question from children?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but if anything, I’m maybe more offended by the idea that the word “hoohaa” is an acceptable substitute for “vagina” — or that “vagina” is itself somehow a dirty word: “We got a complaint about this play The Vagina Monologues,” said Bryce Pfanenstiel, of the Atlantic Theater. The Hoohah Monologues … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}