Eve Ensler (that’s her in the photo, smiling at the thought of all those men and boys starving in Haiti, probably) has chosen to get on her high horse and tell the world that something she calls “girl” is the key to saving the universe from the threat of everything patriarchal.
I will leave aside the gross hypocrisy of any moralizing being done by a woman whose Vagina Monologues originally included a story in which a grown woman getting a fourteen year old girl drunk and then having sex with her was portrayed as a positive thing, and go instead after the article.
For the most part the article is a potion concocted to make women feel great and men feel bad, a new age-ish piece of claptrap that makes many claims and offers not the slightest piece of evidence for bizarre statements such as…
“It must be very powerful to be a girl if everyone Is taught not to be one.”
Indeed, so I suppose it must be very powerful to piss in public since everyone is taught not to be a public urinator!
But such non-sequitirs are the least of Ensler’s offences. The thrust (wink wink) of this piece is the very Mary Daly-ish equating of most of humanity’s positive traits with femaleness, or as Ensler has re-coded it here “girl”…
“Imagine that girl is the part of each of us that feels compassion, empathy, passion, intensity, association, relationship, emotion, play, resistance, vulnerability, intuitive intelligence, vision.”
While there is no denying that these qualities are part of the solution to the world’s many, many horrible problems, to label them “girl” qualities is an act of hatred against all men and boys, even if it is a hatred cushioned by the claim that even we lowly males carry within us this sacred “girl cell”. Such labeling is simply a way to claim that when guys like Fred Hollows or Bono go off to help the needy it’s their “girl cell”, their feminine side, that is responsible. The intended implication of this is that these men don’t deserve credit as men, much less does their behavior say something about men as a group, since it is only the “girl within” who is urging them towards these worthy actions. If there was evidence for any of this I might shut up, but there isn’t – nobody has taken a look at the DNA of good men and found it to be different to those of evil men, much less found it to be more feminine than that of such men.
Ultimately, what Ensler does in this article is to re-hash the “Woman is good, Man is bad” doctrine of radical feminism by dressing it up in a slutty preteen miniskirt! Unlike her sister hatemongers Mary Daly and Valerie Solanas, Ensler may have opted for the soft handed approach of glorifying girls rather than demonizing boys and men but either way the message is the same – all that is good is female, even if it comes with Bob Geldof’s testicles attached. Don’t like Geldof? Insert Bono or Gandhi or Mandela or Francis of Assisi or Fred Hollows – all fine examples of girlhood, at least when seen through the eyes of a lunatic like Ensler.
Female supremacist filth spews her hatred here.
And oh yes, thank you CNN for giving this creature such a prominent platform from which to hurl her cowpats at the world – I’m sure your sons will thank you in the years to come, you bunch of gutless worms.
More ‘classic’ Ensler. It is the time of the year when she gets her head on TV to say something completely outrageous so that people know that the Vagina Monologue season is upon us and campuses everywhere are avout to be innundated in 40ft blow-up vaginas.
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