Thursday, February 08, 2007

The Hoohah Monologues

Via Feministing, this is without a doubt one of the dumbest things I have ever heard:

A theater in Atlantic Beach, Florida changed the name of The Vagina Monologues on its marquee after a complaint that the title was offensive.

    "We got a complaint about this play The Vagina Monologues," said Bryce Pfanenstiel, of the Atlantic Theater.

    The Hoohah Monologues is a replacement title for The Vagina Monologues -- a well-known play about that part of the female body.

    "We decided we would just use child slang for it. That's how we decided on Hoohah Monologues," Pfanenstiel said.
I suppose "hoohah" is better than most of the other euphemisms for "vagina," but as Jessica points out, addressing squeamishness about women's bodies is the reason the play even exists in the first place.

I have a better word than hoohah: ironic.

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