Valentine's Day, According to Feminists

Posted by: Bill of Right
on February 14, 2005 @ 04:25 PM EST

Jason Mattera, a senior at Roger Williams University, discusses the feminists’ "hijacking of Valentine’s Day" in Front Page Mag:

Valentine’s Day. It’s that time of the year set aside for husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, to express their love, commitment, and affection for each other. To feminists on college campuses, however, it’s a propaganda tool designed to objectify the female body and recite bilious rhetoric. On this day, February 14th, hundreds of women’s groups will be performing “The Vagina Monologues” at our institutions of higher learning as part of the “V-Day” initiative.

Mattera goes on to decimate “the Monologues” and the wing nuts who love it so:

…how does a play riddled with vulgarities do anything to console female victims of abuse or even serve as a preventive measure against violence? Instead of serving the cause she claims to champion, [“the play’s brainchild,” Eve] Ensler encourages students to act out stories that lack any nexus to hostility. The tale of “Bob” who loved to look at vaginas for hours on end and the scene featuring a 72-year-old masturbating woman are hardly the best way to bring awareness of female brutality on college campuses. Such scenes are only cheap pornographic displays.

These days a lot’s written about the “courage” it takes to “fight for civil rights” and other “progressive” causes, and this is probably fair. But Jason Mattera should be commended for expressing an opinion that he knows will be labeled “insensitive” and worse.

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