Someone finally said it!

Rebecca Traister from Salon.com asked the question that some of us ladies have been wondering during this political season’s campaign for female voters. “Do activists have to resort to gyno-talk to get our attention?” We check out her thoughts in the hysterical article provided by the Guardian Unlimited titled, “Enough with the Vaginas!”
Traister discusses her experience at last week’s Vaginas Vote, Chicks Rock concert at the Apollo Theatre, which was sponsered and planned by a variety of organizations, including V-Day, and the head of the organization, Eve Ensler, including “her blessed freaking vagina”.
Traister describes the event, for the most part, to be quite impressive and inspiring. She praises various speakers such as Gloria Steinem for their words of wisdom and inspiration. It was just the moments of vagina-crazy talk that caught her off guard.
“’Are there are any registered vaginas in the house?’ Ensler asked the mostly white crowd at the Apollo. No, actually. But there are registered women. ‘I have never been so afraid in my being,’ Ensler said, urging the audience to ‘pull out that other paradigm living inside of us waiting to be born.’ What? ‘Step into your vaginas and get the vagina vote out.’ Aaaaah! What does stepping into your vagina mean? It sounds like it would hurt! And since Ensler wants us to be frank about our bodies, let me tell the truth: My vagina’s role in voting will be pretty minimal compared to the effort my hands and eyes and brain are going to put in.”
I should hope so! Yes, we do have vaginas. They’re just swell. But do we really need to use them as a strategy to get women to vote?

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