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They could've come up with a better title, though. Maybe next year they could call it one of the following:
The Penis Pontifications
The Testicle Testaments
Just an idea. ;)
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And here I was, ready to write some Penis Monologues of my own!!! :)
"Testicle Testaments": Love it!!! LOL
I'm kind of sick whenever I shout "I have balls" (as in, to have guts) that I'm automatically corrected, "Ovaries! You have ovaries!" Sick. And if I correcd them, they assume I'm a F-toM transsexual, which I am not!! Everyone wants to win the Oppression Lottery...*sigh*
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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...and do they stand on the stage and yell, "Cock! Cock! Cock! at the end?"
Sure would love a copy of that script!
T___
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ROFLMAO!!
Go! 'Nads!
Go! 'Nads!
Gonads!! ;-)
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Btw, folks. I actually *saw* "The Vagina Monologues" this week. I spent four days in Florida doing a server setup for work, and the hotel I stayed in had HBO. They showed TVM (with Eve Ensler herself), complete with the little "Coochie Snorcher" bit.
I regurgitated my beer (and *not* because I over-imbibed).
I will also say that I couldn't sit through the entire thing. Also, at one point during the performance, Ensler sexually harasses one of the male theater staff, calling him a "Bob" after one of the characters in the monologue she just finished. "Bob"'s whole life is apparently fixated on vaginas.
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by Anonymous User on Sunday February 17, @11:38AM EST (#6)
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I like the idea of a "Testicle Testaments" or "Penis Monologues" but I have two concerns.
1. The Vagina Monologues strikes me as absurd--the idea that vaginas themselves could talk or have thoughts of their own. It just reeks of absurdism. Do men really want to follow in those kinds of footsteps? The only benefit to using a similar name for such a thing is that it would capitalize on the already established and successful Vagina Monologues name. (Could also raise some trademark law issues.)
2. Who is going to write the script? Who is going to control the content? It is not inconceivable that the feminists could take over the project and use it to berate or mock men. If Warren Farrell wrote the script then it might be a worthwhile project, but who will write it?
3. Aside from capitalizing on the already established Vagina Monologues name, what would be the message? I can think of all sorts of great men's issues it could raise, but as I said above, would they be raised in a respectful manner? Would there be a monologue called the "Jizzum Snorcher" about a woman who lied to a man about her being on the pill resulting in his involutnary fatherhood?
It is an entertaining idea, let's hope it's done right. I doubt it will be.
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It is an entertaining idea, let's hope it's done right. I doubt it will be.
Actually, I think the "Penis Monologues" being produced here is a *spoof* of the Vagina Monologues, which is *exactly* what a "Penis Monologues" should be. We definitely don't want a *serious* play about talking penises (many woman already think we "think" with them). They're just poking fun at Eve Ensler and those who adore her. And Ensler definitely deserves it.
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It's already been written. There are no trademark law concerns because copyright law covers written material. Often there are multiple works with the same title, because the content is what is considered, not the title. And in the case of an intended satire as this is, copyright law is pretty firmly behind the kid from Penn State.
For all we know the feminsts have already taken it over. I haven't yet seen the script. Since it's a weekend I won't hear from the author until at least tomorrow. I'll keep everybody posted!
T____
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by Anonymous User on Sunday February 17, @02:08PM EST (#9)
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So, is the script available to other, enterprising college lads who might be interested in procuding their own rendition?
Frank H
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Does anybody remember "Defending the Caveman," a one man show, by Rob Becker, (I think that's the actor/author's name).
I have seen it twice, it pokes fun at both genders, gently, but it still had the audience laugning helplessly. We need that show -- or somthing very like it.
The principle here is to fight fire with water.
Quench the damn gender war by rising above it.
We don't need to reply in kind; Defending the Caveman is a perfect example of a play to put up "against" the V Dialogues. Done on the same or the next evening it would show a great sense of fairness and, simply by contrast, without any direct comment, it would expose the V Dialoguers as a bunch of whiners.
See Defending the Caveman if it's still around. It's a brilliant work for a tumultuous time.
We may not be able to get that show for next year's V Day -- it's worth way too much for the author to let it go. Nevertheless it's the kind of work we should shoot for -- are there any stand-up comics in the house?
Chuck
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I knew they were gonna come up with a counter-attack! THE PENIS MONOLOGUES!!!! Sweet! Hey, I've got another one...how about THE TESTICLE MONOLOGUES???? Trudy, Nightmist, Scott, Adam, and the rest of you, what do you think?????
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Emmanuel Matteer Jnr.
Emanslave@aol.com
*****MASCULISM IS A BLACK MALE'S BEST FRIEND!!!!*****
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:)
I know how you guys feel. I don't like the "Vagina Monologues" either. I was going to do my own "Penis Monologues" type thing called "You Don't Know Dick". Slightly funny, both gender's perceptions on that...thing...down there. LOL And maybe masculinity in general. I'd love to get together with some non-feminist women and men and do this thing!
And, no, you don't think with It. But I feel like I'm surrounded with women who think with THEIRS.
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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Humour is a powerful weapon. Making people look like a joke or like idiots is an effective way of disarming them. Anything we can do to undermine these nasty manhating drabs is a worthwhile venture - and we can have a good time doing it. Chances are most people won't want to get involved in 'male politics', for pretty much the same reason they don't want much to do with 'female politics', but people do like a good laugh. Just getting people to laugh *with* you on something like this would be worth more than a hundred earnest speeches about the rights of men. The important thing is not to get them laughing at men, which is the danger of the 'Penis Monologues'. Why not do a show called 'Talking Pussy', in which male performers stand on stage and talk through sock-puppet vaginas between their legs so as to express their 'inner feminist'. And while they're talking through their 'vaginas', why not have them doing other things with them, such as smoking a cigarette, eating a banana, drinking water then spitting it out at the front row of the audience, or throwing up. You could have a 'vagina' talking about the relationship between chocolate and sex in some kind of bullshit pop-psychology way while another 'vagina' attempts to catch M&Ms being thrown by a man wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan 'I am a penis'. Oh, the symbolism of it all! And at the end of the show the vaginas reclaim their power by pulling out guns on each other. There's a stand-off, then someone with an itchy trigger clitoris lets off a shot and they all die in a hail of bullets.
Fade-out, curtain and standing applause. Cries of 'Author! Author!', etc...
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Funny idea, but it kind of sounds like absurdist theatre.
Maybe stuff about sex in general would be good....
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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