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A staple of college vandalism is of course THE PENIS. There are penises everywhere I look! People buy chalk and draw them on the sidewalks, doodle them on people's dry erase boards, carve them into elevator doors (YES, even the metal ones), and draw them on their drunken friends' foreheads. Let's face it, the penis is a college dude's best friend.
A friend of mine, let's call him Sanchez, likes to put up posters of things like Edweird from Twilight or Justin Bieber on his door with a collection of sharpies for people to walk by and draw on. Guess what they like to draw on these posters? PENISES. Well, one time I decided that there should be little more diversity in these doodles so I drew a vagine on the poster. Proud of my powerful female assertion, I came back to the poster to show my boyfriend the piece of art. To my surprise, however, someone had not only scribbled over it, but they had scribbled over it in two colors and wrote "SICK" next to it.
They did not, however, scribble over any of the penises.
I was extremely taken back by appeared to me to be an act of sexism by multiple people. I drew another one next to it and waited to see what would happen to my rendition of the female genitalia. The next day, I checked back and noticed that, once again, the vagina had been scratched out. When I talked about it with Sanchez, he revealed to me that the culprit was actually... drum roll... a group of girls! This made absolutely no sense to me. How could a group of girls be so ashamed and grossed out by their own anatomy? Why is it okay to have penises everywhere, but a vagina is offensive? Especially when it comes from what is supposed to be a liberated and educated generation of women? A vagina is NOT gross. It's a natural part of a woman, and deserves just as much positive attention as a penis does.
I'm a little disappointed by this sexist ordeal, but perhaps it can be a positive experience: I have my work cut out for me.
vanessaaishacoleman
| 3/5/10 08:05 PM
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