Brouhaha over Hoohaa.
Feb. 10th, 2007 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsA theater in Atlantic Beach, Florida, was recently the subject of much noise after it briefly changed the name of the film "The Vagina Monologues" to "The Hoohaa Monologues." Apparently, a slangy, degrading term is better than the technical term.
The name change was provoked by a woman who had to field a question from her niece as they drove past the theater: "What's a vagina?" (Keith Olbermann: "It's a common item you find lying around the house.")
Maybe it's just me, but I'm rather sure that Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan had the names for all their body parts by the time they were literate, and they were literate by the time they passed four.
Which means I would have had to deal with the question, "What's a monologue?" I would probably have had to deal with questions about why anyone would want to talk at length without interruption about their vaginas, and could have easily distracted the question by bringing up other body parts such as noses and toes and asking them to make up long, boring monologues about those body parts. Really, to kids at that age, all body parts seem to have more or less the same level of interest. And telling them they have to come up with a long, boring monologue means that, usually, they won't!
Still, the theater has had great publicity, and some woman is living in a huff, outraged in the knowledge that not only did she fail to "protect" her child, but she failed spectacularly.
The name change was provoked by a woman who had to field a question from her niece as they drove past the theater: "What's a vagina?" (Keith Olbermann: "It's a common item you find lying around the house.")
Maybe it's just me, but I'm rather sure that Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan had the names for all their body parts by the time they were literate, and they were literate by the time they passed four.
Which means I would have had to deal with the question, "What's a monologue?" I would probably have had to deal with questions about why anyone would want to talk at length without interruption about their vaginas, and could have easily distracted the question by bringing up other body parts such as noses and toes and asking them to make up long, boring monologues about those body parts. Really, to kids at that age, all body parts seem to have more or less the same level of interest. And telling them they have to come up with a long, boring monologue means that, usually, they won't!
Still, the theater has had great publicity, and some woman is living in a huff, outraged in the knowledge that not only did she fail to "protect" her child, but she failed spectacularly.
"How..."
Date: 2007-02-12 02:41 pm (UTC)I like to imagine laws forbidding the use of calculus and the Theory of Relativity in public.
For now, I just plan to tell children, "The derivative? That's just something you might learn about when you're older."