Press Release of the Day
In my job as a quasi-journalist I get all sorts of fascinating press releases. Not the quantity or quality of the spams, but still....
The most boring release I got in the last day or so reads:
"East Gwillimbury Proactive with Energy Proposals"
Makes you wanna just pop the attached report open, doesn't it?
Far more interesting is alleged censorship/chickenshit behvaviour/possible publicity stunt surrounding the new play by Eve Ensler. If you don't know, she is the author of The Vagina Monologues. Well, according to her publicists, certain local outlets have balked at coverage of the new play (with the innocuous name, The Good Body) lest they have to mention the female genitalia.
Radio station CHFI (Think Richard Marx, Kenny G and Michael Buble) apparently asked that the word "Vagina" be removed from any mentions of The Vagina Monologues. Other stations refused to do any coverage at all if they had to mention it.
Oh, well.
I'm proud to say that my quasi-magazine will be publishing a hearty interview with Ms. Ensler and, as far as I know, there are no anti-vaginal edicts.
I think Maude Lebowski really captured the hypocrisy herein, noting that her own art was often described as "strongly vaginal, which bothers some men.The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina..they don't like hearing it, and find it difficult to say. Whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick, or his rod, or his johnson."
Come on world - when will you learn?
The most boring release I got in the last day or so reads:
"East Gwillimbury Proactive with Energy Proposals"
Makes you wanna just pop the attached report open, doesn't it?
Far more interesting is alleged censorship/chickenshit behvaviour/possible publicity stunt surrounding the new play by Eve Ensler. If you don't know, she is the author of The Vagina Monologues. Well, according to her publicists, certain local outlets have balked at coverage of the new play (with the innocuous name, The Good Body) lest they have to mention the female genitalia.
Radio station CHFI (Think Richard Marx, Kenny G and Michael Buble) apparently asked that the word "Vagina" be removed from any mentions of The Vagina Monologues. Other stations refused to do any coverage at all if they had to mention it.
Oh, well.
I'm proud to say that my quasi-magazine will be publishing a hearty interview with Ms. Ensler and, as far as I know, there are no anti-vaginal edicts.
I think Maude Lebowski really captured the hypocrisy herein, noting that her own art was often described as "strongly vaginal, which bothers some men.The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina..they don't like hearing it, and find it difficult to say. Whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick, or his rod, or his johnson."
Come on world - when will you learn?
posted by Heavy Early at 10:00 AM
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