Working on Stuff

I feel compelled to write another burning-angry rebuttal to another ill-written take on the Vagina Monologues at BGSU. The rough draft is actually another farrago-style piece, like the ones I've been so keen on recently. It involves using a lot of quotations from female songwriters, poets, authors, and figures.

You know, this columnist has potential as a writer. He strings some pretty phrases together. But then he uses phrases like, "God created women from man as beautiful, angelic beings of purity and limitless love, whose spirit, soul and body work in communion with others to better themselves and the world around them."

The problem with citing God, is that all the sources that mention him are second- or third-hand. And more often than not, gone through way too many translations to be a viable, citable source.

To top it off, couldn't God be paraphrased as saying that women are subservient to men, lesser beings, and destined for the kitchen and baby room? I mean, really. Your primary argument is that God intended for women to be virginal and pure beings? Sure, that's some beautiful wording up there, but most contemporary women are probably going to find that description to be condescending.

Anyway, in the middle of writing this year's response, I got side-tracked. As a result, over at Samizdat is my review of this author's column from the end of August '06. He claims that the Daily Show was going to lower youth voter turnout by infecting viewers with apathy. Yeah, how did the election numbers bear his opinion out? Sucks when reality refutes your assertions, huh?