Some mischievous girls disrupted a performance of the Vagina Monologues, prompting the University of Wisonsin Madison to open an investigation into the public act of heresy. The girls, who are suspected to be sorority sisters, reportedly banged on windows and made obscene gestures. One girl is alleged to have lifted her skirt in a move that may have been calculated to taunt and provoke the largely lesbian performers and audience in a “can’t touch this” gesture.
The disturbance came toward the end of a Saturday night performance that was part of a three-show weekend run held as a fundraiser for UNIDOS Against Domestic Violence, a Madison-based nonprofit that aids Latinos and immigrants.
The show was held in the basement of Brink Lounge. Near the end, a bus parked on East Washington Avenue let out members of the sorority for their spring formal to be held in a basement lounge adjacent to the theater space. A large window forms part of the back wall of the theater fronting East Washington Avenue.
The majority of sorority members walked by without incident, Feder said. One woman allegedly starting pounding on the window as the scripted portion of the play was concluding, she said. After a brief lull, other young men and women joined, with most pounding on the window and one woman briefly lifting up her skirt, she said. In total about five people were part of the disturbance, she said.
The second part of the disturbance came during the final scene of the play when actors step to a microphone one by one and share personal, unscripted stories of their own experiences with sexual violence, Feder said. Some spoke in English. Others spoke in Spanish.
It’s informative to see that while screeching protests that involve violence, civil rights violations and intimidation as well as illegal alarm-pulling are not investigated in North American universities, a few kids horsing around outside a window calls for a “full investigation.”
But I suppose that when the holy, pure and sacrosanct ritual of feminists talking about their vaginas is being performed, respect and reverence is not optional. Students who do not pay the proper respect to the vagina, that inviolate wellspring of victimhood, must be forced to pay for their transgressions.
On another note, this thing feminists have for foreign women should be suspect. I have noticed for years a certain obsession with politically marginalized immigrant women among the radical feminist set. Somehow, I suspect that feminists’ interest in compliant, powerless young females isn’t entirely altruisic.
