Theocratic absurdism
An alert reader told me this morning that a theater outside Jacksonville, Fla., decided last week to change the words on its marquee from “The Vagina Monologues” to “The Hoohah Monologues” after one panicky motorist complained.
“We decided we would just use child slang for it. That’s how we decided on Hoohah Monologues,” [Atlantic Theater spokesperson Bryce] Pfanenstiel said.
They did this after a driver who saw it complained to the theater, saying she was upset that her niece saw it.
“I’m on the phone and asked ‘What did you tell her?’ She’s like, ‘I’m offended I had to answer the question,’” Pfanenstiel said.
In America, you see, a slang term is less offensive to children’s delicate sensibilities (or, more precisely, to those of their hyperventilating elders) than the anatomical term it denotes.
In a triumph of common sense, the theater changed the name back to the original two days later.
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