Valentine’s Day hasn’t been banned yet, but not all that long ago, modern feminists crafted their own interpretation of it. It is a self-contradicting alternate holiday called V-Day, combining awareness about sexual abuse alongside paraphernalia that encourages it.
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Every year V-Day celebrations flood college campuses with an array of offensive material that appears to have little connection with the prevention of violent crimes against women. For example, Roger Williams University was flooded with signs that read, “My Vagina is Huggable,” “My Vagina is Flirty,” and “My Vagina is Regal,” while students at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill went around in “I ♥ My Vagina” T-shirts. V-Day participants at Boise State University distributed vagina-shaped lollipops, and at Arizona State University they constructed a 40-foot inflatable vagina.
The logic behind V-Day seems strange. If you were really concerned about preventing sexual abuse against women, wouldn’t it be more effective to offer women lessons in self-defense rather than encourage them to participate in pornographic readings? And what possible connection can there be between empowering women to resist violence and encouraging them to distribute vagina-shaped lollipops?
Centuries spent trying to get the world to look at women as more than their sex parts are out the window. Women are, according to V-Day advocates, all about their vaginas. I’m not complaining; I’m just curious. Contradictions aside, is this supposed to help you achieve happiness, and if so, for whom?
I’m not defining what that means for you, by the way. That’s all on you. But given the tendency of feminists to favor totalitarian political schemes where choice vanishes for all but the ruling elite, there may not be many paths left to find it. Is this truly how you want to live your life? And are you the sort whose mission is to make others miserable about their choices when they differ from yours?
Lukas cites one women’s studies textbook that defines “heterosexual bribery” as “the dangerous fantasy that if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right man, then you will be allowed to co-exist with patriarchy in relative peace.”
As a reminder, women graduate with more college degrees than men. They are competing well on salary despite claims to the contrary and, as noted by Dr. Peterson, tend not to suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune to which men’s flesh are heir. They can even choose to be men and keep their vaginas!
But are they happy? Is it Happy V-Day, or just V-Day, a celebration to end gender violence that encourages it?
On that last point, is anyone planning to do anything about the parallel gender culture that allows men to pretend to be women to gain access to women to commit gender violence? And is it okay if they wear a “My Vagina is Huggable,” “My Vagina is Flirty,” or “My Vagina is Regal shirt? After all, according to NH State Rep Timmy Horrigan, men can have vaginas.
And if anyone can have a vagina, what does that mean for V-Day?
